3 JANUARY 1874, page 10

Two Consolatory Events Have Been Reported This Week....

the centre of a great town as a magnificent Portugal has repented herself, and has suppressed the Macao. boulevard, then continuing as an ordinary country road, finally Coolie......

An Ugly Telegram Has Reached The Times From The Borders

of Northern India. Shere Ali, who is known to have been exceed- ingly ill, has formally proclaimed his youngest son—or son of his favourite wife, we forget for the moment......

Lord Warwick Has Written To Say That He Has Resigned

his seat on the Governing Body of Rugby because he thinks Dr. Hayman ill-used by his colleagues. Dr. Hayman himself has been writing a good deal to the Times since our last......

The Virginius, The Unhappy Subject Of Dispute Between...

and the United States, has somewhat conveniently "foundered,"—thereto inclined, no doubt, by artificial inlets of sea-water, —on her way to New York. She was towed by the......

General Bixio, We Regret To See, Is Dead. He Was

the best and the wisest of the Garibaldians, though he lacked the genius, rising sometimes to a sort of inspiration, which in his best moods animates their chief. He got tired......

There Is Little Substantial News About The Famine, Except...

rain has fallen in Behar, apparently for a day or two ; that the Bhagulpore zemindars have refused to receive advances or to assist their tenants ; that Burdwan has been......

Lord Aberdare Made A Good Speech Also On New Year's

Day, at or near Cardiff, on occasion of the opening of some new Board Schools in the Gellygaer School Board district. He pointed out how impossible it was for any fifteen men,......

The Head Master Of Eton Is Also More Or Less

in conflict with his Under-Masters, but we confess we think he has the right on his side, and that some of the Under-Masters are going in for a " seniority " principle which......

Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, The Chairman Of The Executive...

of the Birmingham Education League, Mayor of Birming- ham, Chairman of the Birmingham School Board, and last, not least, author of the punning Radical programme, "free schools,......