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It Is Rumoured That Lord Granville Will Speedily Quit The

Cabinet, and accept the Embassy to Paris, in order to leave to Earl Russell the, unquestioned leadership of the House of Lords. The Ministry will not lose much strength in a......

The Appointment Of Lord Elgin To The Indian Viceroyalty Has

been demi-officially announced, and will be received with favour everywhere but in India. There his Lordship is the object of an official prejudice which it would be hard to......

News Of The Week.

L ORD John Russell took his seat in the House of Lords on Tuesday as Earl Russell, of Kingston-Russell in Dorset, and Viscount Amberley, of Ardsalla, in Meath. Most Whigs will......

I Grange Scandal, Discreditable To All Parties Concerned,...

repprted this week from Rome. A Roman soldier wounded a French one, and GeneralGoyon demanded his surrender, which Mgr. de Merode, Bishop and Minister at War, refused. Some......

The Duke Of Buckingham, A Magnate Remarkable As A Young

man for having carried the only successful amendment on the Reform Bill, the well-known " Chandos clause," and as an old one for the utter ruin which suddenly overtook him, died......

The Ministerial Fish Dinner Came Off On Tuesday, And The

few members left in town are drinking up with wry faces the lees of debate. The only Parliamentary incident of any interest has been Lord Pal- merston's expression of hope that......

The Great Battle Which Is To Decide The Fate Of

the American Re-- public has not been fought, but General McClelland has cleared. Western Virginia, and an advance still further to the South seems at last imminent. The scene......