2 JULY 1870, page 2

Acurious Ceremony Has Been Performed At Solferino. An...

huge brick grave for bones, was consecrated there on 24th June, and at the banquet which followed Prince Humbert proposed the health of the "Three Armies" which had there fought......

The House Of Peers, As We Apprehended Last Week, Has

got "out of hand," and prepared for itself a humiliation. The majority of the Lords, despite the warnings of the Duke of Richmond, their nominal leader, have carried a series of......

The 29th June Passed Without The Expected Declaration Of The

infallibility of the Pope by the (Ecumenical Council. The number of prelates who intend to speak is still very great, and a speech by Cardinal Guidi, the Archbishop of Bologna,......

The French Government Is Trying To Put Down The...

Society of Workmen by charging its members with the offence of belonging to a secret association. Thirty-eight members are now under trial in Paris. It is asserted in the act of......

The Order In Council To Which We Recently Alluded, As

containing a splendid concession from the Queen, was pre- sented to Parliament on Monday. It has been most carefully worded, so as to avoid to the utmost any appearance of......

Mr. Gladstone On Monday " Explained " The Recent Hubbub

at the Admiralty, and the affair having been arranged, of course said as little as he could. Sir Spencer Robinson, the Controller, had resigned, because disqualified by an Order......

The Committee Of Petitions Of The Corps L6gislatif Has...

the petition of the Orleans Princes for permission to return, after a most discreditable speech from M. (Xavier. Instead of declaring that their exile was a political necessity,......

The Ex-queen Of Spain Has Formally Abdicated In Favour Of

her son, the Infante Alfonso, whom she declares Alfonso XII., King of Spain. She has at the same time issued a farewell manifesto, in which she affirms that as a child the......

Nothing Is Left Untouched In The Bill Except Mr. Bright's

clauses, and every change made has been in the interest of the landlord and against the tenant. It is impossible that the Com- mons should suffer their work to be mutilated in......