2 MAY 1868, page 1

The Debate Of The Week In The Commons, Lasting Three

nights, was, on the whole, and with few exceptions, very tame and tire- some. Lord Derby, however, having recovered his usual rashness of nature with his health, breathed some......

Sir Robert Napier, To Whom The Unexampled Success Of This

expedition is mainly due, will, it is said, be offered a peerage,— which he will probably be obliged to decline, having many children and slender fortune,—will receive from......

The Long Debate On Mr. Gladstone's First Resolution,...

the necessity of disestablishing the Irish Church, terminated on Friday morning at 2.30 a.m. in a majority of sixty-five against Government. This is an increase of five on the......

This Attempt Of Lord Derby To Set First The Queen

and the Commons quarrelling, and then the Commons and the Lords, by predicting " irreconcilable variance," and to arrogate to himself the duty of advising the Ministers to......

News Of The Week.

M AGDALA has fallen ; King Theodore is dead ; the prisoners have been released ; and the British Army is returning. This was the pleasant intelligence announced in Paris on......

The Duke Of Edinburgh Was On The 12th March, While

pre- siding at a charitable dinner in Port Jackson, shot in the back by a Fenian named O'Farrell, said to have acted under orders from a committee at home. Fortunately for the......