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The Revenue Returns Are Very Good. Some Of The Papers

seem to think that the Customs' duties have fallen off, but this is a blunder. They forget the remission of the corn duty. The in- crease, too, is in spite of the diminution due......

The Bishop Of Orleans, A Great Friend Of Pere Hyacinthe,

and a liberal Catholic, seems to have made every effort to prevent Pere Hyacinthe sending that letter of resignation, in which he, in effect, defied the Council, and appealed......

Mr. Cardwell Addressed His Constituents At Oxford On...

evening amidst the pauses of a terrific thunderstorm, which interrupted his speech. But, clearly, if he had been a peer, or such a peer, at least, as Lord Clarendon approves, he......

Lord Clarendon Spoke At Watford On Monday, Also At A

meeting of an Agricultural Association, and also in a generally Conserva- tive sense. He defended the House of Lords for its apathy, on the ground that it had an excellent habit......

Mr. Patton Is Succeeded As Lord Justice Clerk By Mr.

Moncreiff, now Lord Advocate. It is supposed that Mr. Young, the Solicitor- General for Scotland, will become Lord Advocate, ankthat either Mr. A. Rutherford Clark or Mr.......

As Mr. Moncrieff, Till Now Lord Advocate, Has Been Made

Lord Justice Clerk, in place of the late Mr. Patton, the seat which he now holds, for the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen, will be vacated. An elector writing to the Star......

A Very Amusing Account Of The Liquefaction Of The Blood

of St. Januarius has appeared in the Times, and another, apparently by the same writer, but with different touches, in the Pall Mall Gazette. It would seem from these narratives......

The Body Of The Late Lord Justice Clerk Of Scotland

(the Right Hon. George Patton) was found in the Almond river on the afternoon of yesterday week, being drawn up by a creeper which had caught hold of the right hand. There was a......

Lord Hartington Lectured The Tenant-farmers Of Ireland...

severity at an agricultural meeting at Lismore on Thursday week. The occasion was an anniversary meeting of a farmers' society founded forty years ago by his father, the Duke of......