4 DECEMBER 1869, page 1

News Of The Week.

T HE French Legislature was opened on Monday by the Emperor in person in a long speech of the regular Napoleonic kind, very frank in form and very reserved in spirit. " It is......

The Bishop Of Lincoln (dr. Wordsworth), Moved By The Anxiety

of his clergy, has made another effort to obtain from D. Temple a repudiation of the general doctrine of Essays and Reviews, urging the rather inconclusive consideration that he......

It Appears To Be Believed That M. 011ivier Will Be

gazetted as Minister next week. In spite of the desertion of some thirty-six of the old one hundred and sixteen, who found him too Imperialist, he has formed a party, having......

The Emperor Says Little On Foreign Policy, And That Little

is not instructive. He says everybody is friendly, and we may be proud of our century ; for "America has suppressed slavery," Russia " has liberated her serfs," England "is......

A Leeds Education Meeting Favourable To The Policy Of The

Bir- mingham League has, we are happy to see, urged immediate legis- lation in relation to primary education. We had feared there were signs of a strong wish on the part of the......

It Is Rumoured, Though Not Yet On Sufficient Authority, That

the Ministry intend to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland. They fear lest the impunity with which treason is disseminated in several counties may tempt the ignorant......

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