31 DECEMBER 1870, page 3

Count Bismarck Has Written A Note On The Breaches Of

parole by French officers, the defect of which is not a defect Common with Count Bismarck,—the extreme vagueness of its charges. He .accnses Generals Ducrot, Barrel, and......

The Herren Hans Of Prussia Has Forwarded An Address To

the King upon his coming assumption of the Imperial Crown which will greatly delight all Junkers throughout Germany. The Prussian Squires declare that they have seen his Majesty......

"the Working-men's Club And Institute Union" Have Just...

two months' campaign in Yorkshire against the national vice of drunkenness, by attacking what they hold to be its principal cause,—viz., that workmen, needing, like other men,......

The Government Of India Is About To Try An Important

experi- ment in the way of decentralization. Each subordinate govern- ment is invested with full power over education, gaols, police, Toads, civil buildings, and other local......

The Germans Committed A Questionable Raid On Some English...

on the Seine, on the 21st December. As far as we can snake out, these colliers had gone up to Rouen with a permit from -the German Government. One account says that, having......

The Russian Conference Is To Meet, It Is Said, In

London on the 3rd January. Report says that France will not send an ambas- sador unless England first recognizes the Republic, and a remon- strance presented to Mr. Gladstone on......

The Extraordinary Efficiency Of Prussian Administration,...

efficient for its purposes in the world, cornea out in the government of occupied provinces outside Alsace and Lorraine. Herr Bethmann Holweg, for example, German Prefect of the......

Consols Were On Friday 911 To 9n.

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The Mont Cenis Tunnel, As It Is Called, Between France

and Italy, was "completed," that is, cut through, on Saturday. It is really a railway tunnel under Mont Tabor, 7 1 1- miles long, with a gradient of only 1 in 120. The tunnel......

The Quinquennial Census Of The United States Has Just Been

completed, and shows.that the Union contains a population of 39,000,000, or about one-fourth more than our own. It has in- creased 22 per cent, in the decade, and at the same......