2 APRIL 1870, page 3

The Burglarious Acrobat Who Is Said To Be Going About

London taking rich people's jewels has turned up in Parliament. Colonel Beresford on Monday asked in more formal terms why he was not taken, and why also Colonel Henderson lived......

Mr. C. Forster's Bill Abolishing Forfeiture For Felony...

:a•seeond time on Wednesday, and Mr. Bruce announced that the Government wished to see it passed. Forfeiture is a relic of the -old time, and is radically unjust, as it amounts......

The Death Of Mr. Edward Denison, The Member For Newark,

has caused a very profound impression in the East of London. Mx. Denison's public career was too brief—for he sat in the House only one session—and the modesty of his character......

A Meeting In Favour Of Obtaining The Political Suffrage For

women was held at the Hanover-Square Rooms this day week, Mrs. P. A. Taylor in the chair. Mrs. Taylor, in introducing the sub- ject, appeared to thi■k that the way to fit any......

Eleven Hundred And Fifty Persons Have Petitioned The...

of Canterbury against any relaxation of the rubrics in relation to the Athanasian Creed. Dr. Pusey, Dr. Bright, Pro- fessor Stubbs, Canon Jell, Canon Liddon, Lord Devon, Lord......

Consols Were On Friday Evening 931 To 93t.

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The Division On Mr. Newdegate's Motion As To The In-

spection of convents shows a curious number of votes given by Liberals in its favour,—for instance, Mr. Dodson's (the Chairman of Committees), Captain Grosvenor's, Mr. Holms's,......

Mr. J. Payne, The Deputy Assistant-judge At The Middlesex...

died this week. He was a good man and a fair lawyer, but lacked the perception of the ludicrous, and was perpetually getting into absurd situations. Our readers will recollect......

We Seem Not Only To Have Lost The Art Of

governing, but the very wish to govern. It seems quite certain that Well, the Canadian, the pseudo-President of the Red River Republic, has actually shot one Scott, a Canadian,......

Mr. J. Fenby, C.e., Read An Ingenious And Careful Paper

last Saturday at the weekly meeting- of the Birmingham Society of Artizans, on the plan which has been so often proposed for building houses for the working-classes in the......