The Lord Chancellor Sent The House To Sleep,—we Mean In
a literal sense—by an immensely long discourse of the special-pleader kind. One of his points, for instance, was that the Church was wrongly described in the Suspensory Bill, as......
Lord Russell Did Not Say Much, And What He Did
say was not very powerful. He .protested against Mr. Disraeli's exaggerated statements that the whole basis of civil and religious liberty might be destroyed if the Irish Church......
The Irish Church Question Seems Incidentally To Have Had The
excellent effect of disintegrating the Evangelical party, the Evangelicals who rely on endowments having one opinion, and the Evangelicals with tendencies to Voluntaryism......
The Skuptchina, Or Local Diet, Has Elected Prince Milano,...
nephew of Michael, Prince of Servia, and he has been received in Belgrade as Sovereign. As he is only fourteen, the real question for the country is the Regency, on which......
The Colonial Office, Unable To Cut The Constitutional...
Victoria, would appear to have offered terms to Sir C. Darling. At least, he writes to say that he will give up his claim to the 20,000/. voted to his wife if the Colonial......
The Tory Lords Tried On Thursday To Upset The Agreement
made in the Commons about the Boundary Bill. It was under- stood there that the report of the Select Committee, which left things much as they are, was to be supported by......
The Speakers On The Loan In The French Chamber Seem
all to agree upon two points—that the Empire has spent on an average 12,000,000/. a year since 1852 in excess of the revenue, and that the total budget of France cannot be......
M. Haussmann Has Sustained A Somewhat Severe Defeat. The...
Legislatif is fairly frightened by the debt which he is imposing upon Paris, and which threatens to make her present heavy taxation a permanent burden on the citizens. The......
The Duke Of Argyll Opened The Debate Of Monday In
a vigorous but somewhat acrid speech, the great points of which were three, —first, that the disestablishment of a Church which keeps up the tradition of the old miseries of......
The Pope Has Issued A Bill Summoning A General Council
of the Catholic Church for the 8th December, 1869. All Bishops unable to appear are to be represented by proxy, and it is hinted that the objects of the Council will be to......
The Marquis Of Salisbury Followed The Duke Of Somerset In
one of his hardest and narrowest speeches. Personally, Lord Salisbury would defend the Church a l'ouerance, but he admitted that he could not trust the army,—" the troops won't......
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