2 FEBRUARY 1861, page 2

At Home, The Dulness Which Generally Precedes The Meeting Of

Parliament, has been broken only by a few speeches, not of the highest class. Mr. Bright has addressed the electors of Bir- mingham on the wastefulness of the governing classes,......

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A deputation of shipowners waited on Lord John Russell, on Saturday, to call his attention to two subjectsof great interest. First, they showed that foreign powers have not......

Intelligence Has Been Received Of A Famine Raging In Some

of the North-west Provinces of India. The year 1860 was a year of extraordinary drought, and the autumn crop was almost entirely lost. The people ate much of their seed corn,......

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THE QUEEN is still at Windsor. Her Majesty was driven out during the week, once accompanied by the Princess of Joinville, while the Prince Consort went out shooting, accompanied......