30 JANUARY 1864, page 2

The Berlin Correspondent Of The Times States That The...

Government has, for the present, plenty of money, the revenue exceeding the expenditure, and there being an available reserve of some 6,750,0001., a very large sum for Prussia.......

The Rev. Harold Browne, Norrisian Professor Of Divinity,...

has been appointed Bishop of Ely. The appointment is a creditable one, the Church rather wanting a bishop with some acquaintance with theology, but Mr. Browne, we suspect, might......

The Distress In Lancashire Has, We Are Sorry To Say,

begun to increase again somewhat rapidly. In the first week of January there were 3,100 more paupers than in the previous week, in the second week 5,620 more than in the first......

The Intelligence From America Is Still Strangely Devoid...

The Republicans, it would seem, have called their " caucus " to nominate a president for the 4th July, and the body will assemble at Chicago, perhaps to elect some utterly......

On Monday The Magistrates Of The Sittingbourne Petty...

engaged in examining another alleged breach of the Foreign Enlistment Act, the Government accusing one of their own officials, Mr. Rumble, the engineering inspector of machinery......

The Townley Case Does Not Improve. Sir George Grey Has

received replies from the magistrates who signed the certificate. They all admit that they were "put in motion" by Townley's own solicitor. Three of them at least had prejudged......

The Conservatives Appear Inclined To Commence An...

for ,the repeal of the malt tax. They have an idea that it falls primarily upon the fanner, rather than the beer con- sumer, and are disposed even to make it a test question on......

The Statements Made In Our Article Last Week On Sir

Emerson Tennent's puff of the Whitworth gun are confirmed by a curious announcement in the military intelligence in Thursday's Times "The Whitworth and Armstrong Committee......

A Catholic Elector Wrote A Sensible Letter To Saturday's...

to defend his party for their adhesion to the Conservatives and to maintain that the true Catholics would all, sooner or later, throw their influence on to that side. It is not,......

A Correspondent Sends Us The Following On The Shakespeare...

and its non-existent funds Tho' nothing comes of all their schemes and strife, Surely they render Shakespeare homage true, Acting his wittiest drama to the life, Who about......

Herr Von Bismark Has Explained To The Deputies The Prussian

idea on the Schleswig-Holstein case. He wishes avowedly to upset the diplomatic arrangements of 1852 (not the treaty) which con- ceded the separation of Schleswig and Holstein,......

A Very Wise And Vigorous Effort Is Being Made In

Munster by Mr. Maguire, the Mayor of Cork, and others, to get up linen manufactories, to alleviate the distress of the labouring population, and it has received generous......