4 FEBRUARY 1865, page 2

The Surrey Theatre Was Burnt On Monday Night, Just Before

the end of the pantomime. It would appear that the carpenter's shop, which is over the great chandelier, took fire, the " flies " followed, and in less than half an hour the......

The French Government Has Demanded Explanations From The...

New Caledonia as to his treatment of missionaries in Lifu. It is not, says M. Drouyn de Lhuys, the object of the Emperor to impede Protestant missionaries, but rather to......

A Crowded Public Meeting Of The Inhabitants Of Putney, Held

on Monday, January 30 (Colonel North, M.P., in the chair), has passed unanimous resolutions against Earl Spencer's Wimbledon Park Bill. It is rumoured that the Office of Woods......

The Recent Increase In The Price Of Calico Seems To

have affected the imagination, not to say the conscience, of some who suffer by it. In a most comical case tried on Wednesday in the Common Pleas, Matilda Collier, a......

Bethnal Green •must He A Nice Place For A Poor

man to live in. The wife of- a painter living there, named Jenkins, became insane after her confinement, bruised her baby, and became dangerous to the other children. The Union......

Sir Charles Trevelyan Has Resigned His Seat As Indian...

of Finance, and Sir Charles Wood has selected Mr. Massey, mem- ber for Salford and Chairman of Committees, to All the vacancy. The appointment is an odd one, as Mr. Massey is......

Mr. Baines Wants To Make . Leeds A Seaport. He

says it is a question whether the Aire, on which the town stands, cannot be so improved and deepened that vessels of -300 tons could come up to the bridge, -which would give the......

The Nobles Of Moscow Have Resolved By 270 To 37

votes to petition the Czar for a free deliberative parliament, to consist of two chambers, one composed of nobles, and the other of popular representatives. They do not venture......

It Seems There Is Some Foundation For The Strange Story

about a will made by a pauper in the St. Pancras Union for the benefit of the master and the lawyer who drew the will. A letter has been re- ceived from a solicitor at Clifton......

Telegraphic Communication Between Bagdad And Calcutta Was...

January. As the communication between Bagdad and Constantinople is complete, all India is _now in communica- tion with all Europe.......

For The First Time Since The Contest Was Established A

Peer's heir has become-Senior Wrangler. The fortunate gentleman, who it is said owes his success entirely to severe work, is the Honourable J. W. Strutt, son of Lord Rayleigh,......

We Are Happy To Perceive That Londoners, After Years Of

patient submission to plunder, are at last beginning to complain loudly of the gas companies. The directors of those establishments know perfectly , well that gas is supplied in......