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It Is Telegraphed By The Tillb88' Correspondent At...

General Grant has consented to take the chairmanship of the company for " suppressing " the isthmus of Panama—to use the phrase first applied to M. Lesseps—by-carrying out the......

Lord,winmarleigh;—better Remembered In. England By The...

under which , he sat so long in the- House-of Commons,,--in -addressing the Lancashire Agricultural- Association on.Neesday, very prudently- endeavoured to undo , some of the......

The French Prime Minister, M; Waddington, Delivered A...

week on the political situation, in, which-he made a general de- fence of his Government, and showed how successful it had been in the various difficult problems with which it......

It Seems That The Negotiations For The Marriage Of 'the

King' of Spain.with..the --Princess Marie 'Christina, daughter of". the' lute Archclulte•Charles,,Ferdinand and cousin of the --Emperor of 'Austria, are now proceeding......

The Vienna Tagblatt Of Tuesday Publishes A, Report Of The

drift of an interview, of an hour's duration between one of its staff and Count Andrasey, on the subjeet of the Count's poli- tical aims, and his reasons for resigning.......

The French Conseile-g6neraux Have Verified Our...

views of the 7th Clause of M. Jules Ferry's Educa- tion Bill. Thirteen of these bodies hove passed resolutions in its favour ; more than twice as many, twenty-seven, have passed......

But The Duke Of Cambridge's Criticism On The...

the death. of the late Prince Imperial is a some- what unsatisfactory document, reflecting rather a temper very natural and appropriate to the catastrophe, than a judicial state......

The _figaro , Has Produced, Another Of Its Very Doubtfully

authentic colloquies, the hero of the occasion being, in this instance, Prince Jerome Napoleon. Like M. Jules Simon, Prince Napoleon is stated to disapprove- of Article 7 in M.......

Mr. Gladstone Made An Interesting Speech At A...

Hawarden Park, on Thursday, on the opportunities for a greater development, of profitable gardening. He pointed out that we import yearly,into the country, fruits such- as we......