30 DECEMBER 1876, page 2

President Grant Has Sent A Message To Congress, In Which

he informs the Members that the British Government has volun- tarily offered to carry out the old Treaty until the new one can be completed. He has replied that he is perfectly......

A -speech Of The Right Hon. W. N. Massey's, Delivered

last week to his' constituents at Tiverton, shows that one not regarded as among the most advanced members of the Liberal party is quite as heartily with Mr. 'Gladstone on the......

A Correspondent In The Times Writing From Yokohama...

suppressed insurrection in Japan which broke out on the 25th October. The Government had recently proposed to commute the pensions hitherto paid to the gentry who sup- port......

Mr. Bright, Considering His Very Great Position As An Orator

and a statesman, a statesman as sagacious in council as any chief of his party, is unduly sensitive to hostile criticism. Commenting on a speech by a Tory Member (Mr. Hick, M.P.......

Canon Trevor And Others, Writing On This Prosecution,...

wisely,—though not perhaps with a sufficiently distinct view of the inevitableness of the attempt to apply an unfortunate law to extreme persons who ostentatiously violate......

A Correspondence Has Been Going On This Week In The

Times, caused by the recommendation of the recent "Conference of Head Masters," that the xequisitions of the Civil Service Exami- nation for the Indian Civil Service, now that......

Si; Hercules Robinson, Governor Of New South Wales,...

entertain the Governor of Victoria at Albury, a frontier town between the two colonies, made on October 31 a strong speech in favour of Federation. He pointed out the necessity......

Professor Jack (of Owens College, Manchester) Illustrates...

letter to Tuesday's Times, what he insisted on with great effect earlier in the year,—the importance and the feasibility of treating the compulsory principle, when adopted by......