4 APRIL 1874, page 3

As Our Present Position About The Famine, Is Evidently Mite-

understood, we will just restate it. We hold the .Government of India to have failed for nearly three months to meet an inevi- table danger in any adequate way. That Government,......

Mr. Cross Has Set At Least One Very Dubious Precedent

by re- mitting, apparently on the weakest ground, one half of the sentence orfourteen days' imprisonment passed on a young man for cruelly beating a cat. In answer to Sir W.......

Mr. Knight, Of Dundee,—the Persecuted Of The Free...

applied to be admitted into the Established Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and his congregation has heartily supported him in this course. This scores one for Establishments,......

Michigan, Iowa, And Rhode Island All Seem To Be Thinking

of trying the experiment of Women's Suffrage for us. At least, in all these States, an amendment of the State Constitution sanction- ing women's suffrage has been approved in......

Our Contemporary The Lancet Has Read "with Equal...

and pain" our remarks of a fortnight ago on Dr. Wickham Legg's painful vivisections at St. Bartholomew's, and our ex- pression of the hope that the Governors of St.......

Dr. Pusey, In A Letter To Monday's Times, Sets A

good example to his Ritualist friends, by expressing his own conviction that outward forms are not of the essence even of the High-Church faith, but matters of secondary......

Some Communists And Henri Rochefort Have Escaped From New...

The wildest stories as to the method of their escape are current in Paris, the most popular being that they swam through a mile of sharks, but we prefer the prosaic account......

Lord Shaftesbury Has Gained A Signal Triumph Over "a Member

of the Cobden Club," one of the hard school of Economists, who quoted in the Times of this day week Mr. Cobden's bitter words against the factory laws so closely associated with......

On Saturday Cambridge Won The Annual Boat-race Against...

was nothing particular to mark the race this year, except that it was rowed rather slowly, that it attracted a rather less crowd than usual, that the Eights do not seem to have......

Consols Were On Friday 91i To 92.

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