2 SEPTEMBER 1865, page 2

The Portsmouth Gathering Appears To Have Been A Brilliant...

brilliant we mean, - with plenty of blue lights, rockets, fireworks, and other luminous appearances. First there was the dinner to the French Minister of Marine and the Admirals......

Lord Lyttelton Made A Creditable Speech On Monday, On Oc-

casion of opening the "Birmingham Exhibition of the productions of the hard-working class," as he called it, in order to keep his right to the title of a working man himself. He......

The Morning Post, Usually Suppose' To Have Inspiration...

Palmerston, is obviously becoming a mare retailer_of French canards. On Wednesday it had an article, very French in tone, professing to give an account of a secret article in......

The University Of Vienna Has Conferred Honorary Degrees...

eminent Englishmen—Sir C. Lyell, Sir R. Murchison, and Mr. John Stuart Mill.......

There Was Great Excitement In New York On The 16th

August, caused by a colossal failure and still more colossal fraud. One of the richest firms in New York, that of Ketchum, Son, and Co., failed for an immense amount, the......

Lord Amberley Has Written An Answer To Mr. Disraeli's Church

speeches in the new number of the Fortnightly Review. Lord Amberley does not exactly declare himself on the question of a State Church, but the drift of his arguments is clearly......

At Wakefield On Thursday Lord Houghton Did The Same Kind

office for the Industrial and Fine Art Eshibition of that town, deli- vering a very thoughtful address, in which he pointed out that almost all of even the merest mechanical......

Dr. Chapman Publishei A Pamphlet To Show That In The

appli- cation of ice to the spine he has found a powerful remedy for cholera and the slighter complaint of diarrhcea. He has only had the chance of trying his theoretic remedy......

The Regius Professorship Of Divinity, Vacated By The...

Dr. Jacobson to the See of Chester, has been filled by the appointment of the Rev. R. Payne Smith, sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library. Mr. Payne Smith is a great Hebraist and......

Constance Kent Has Confessed, But Not Anything That We Did

not know before, except that she had secreted the razor some days beforehand in contemplation of the deed,—that she rose in the middle of the night and carried the child in the......