Town Has Been Amused And Interested By A Suit Brought

by the trustees of Madame Mercier, Court dressmaker, for dresses supplied to Mrs. Maxwell-Heron. The luxury revealed in the case, and the charges for it, were alike monstrous.......

At A Meeting Of The Keswick Literary And Scientific Society,

held at Keswick on Monday, the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley read an interesting paper on the preservation of public footpaths,—a duty which, at all events in the Lake country, becomes......

Mr. Henniker-heaton On Tuesday Proposed A Uniform Penny...

all letters to the Colonies, basing his argument mainly on the way in which cheap postage bound different countries together. Considering that anybody may send a letter to......

Prince Bismarck's Plan Of A Spirit Monopoly Has Been...

rejected by the German Reichstag, only three Members voting for it on the final division. He accepts• the defeat, and promises a Brandy-tax instead; but his closing speech was......

Lord Harris On Monday Asked The Government To Take Off

all penalties from the cultivation of tobacco in the United Kingdom. He said it had been grown as far north as Scotland, that it was still grown in Belgium, and that in Ireland......

The Debate On Dr. Cameron's Motion For...

Scotch Church resulted in a very large majority against Dr. Cameron, the English Disestablishers being apparently unwilling to meddle in so thorny a question as that affecting......

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A Great Fuss Is Being Made Without Much Excuse As

to the possession by the Navy Department in the United States of the designs of our various. ships-of-war. Of course, if these have been obtained by the treachery of Admiralty......

A Deputation From The Free Land League Waited On The

Lord Chancellor on Tuesday, and elicited from Lord Herschel' some important declarations. He was evidently desirous . to abolish primogeniture at once, to enfranchise copyholds,......