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In The Debate On Mr. Dodson's Bill For Abolishing The

Oxford tests for graduates, and admitting to the MA degree without the present condition of subscription to the Articles and Prayer-book, Mr. Neste took Lord R. Cecil to task......

Mr. R. Coning4sby, Engine-fitter, Of Penge, Has Written A...

to the Times in which he declares that he and his class do not want reform,—do not, in fact, care about the suffrage. They prefer to improve their minds. The letter is that of a......

Letters Have Been Received From Dr. Livingstone Dated...

He was then at Mozambique, and about to proceed to Bombay, having just completed a journey on foot through a range of mountains north-west of the Shiro, an account of which will......

Lord Robert Cecil Addressed Last Saturday The...

Oxford University, consisting chiefly of under- graduates, but partly also of Mr. Memel, in a speech explainin, how unworthy Mr. Gladstone was of the honour of representing the......

That Quaint Little Publication Notes And Queries Has...

English proverb, or rather Irish proverb, which wanted an expla- nation. It appears that the story of the "Kilkenny cats" had its foundation in an atrocious act of cruelty. A......

A Man Named White Was On Friday Last Tried Before

Mr. Payne, Deputy Assistant-Judge for Middlesex, for stealing a roll of linsey. The police proved a previous conviction, and though White declared that he had been persecuted by......

A Return Has Been Issued Showing That On The 1st

January, 1864, there were in the Irish county and borough gaols 364 Established Church prisoners, with 39 Established Church chaplains receiving 1,607/. a year amongst them ;......

Mr. Caird Has Proposed In The Tones, And Will Propose

in Par- liament, a plan for collecting agricultural statistics. The gist of it is to collect them not by individual farms, but by Ordnance plots selected for the purpose of......

A Correspondent Of The Times Affirms That In 1863 In

the diocese of Durham the proportion of ordinations to population was 1 to 15,000, last year only one to 30,000, while in Oxford it is 1 to 6,400. He asks for an explanation,......

M. Renan Has Been Removed From His Chair As Professor

of Hebrew, and appointed Assistant-Curator of the Imperial Library, an office for which his remarkable knowledge of Oriental languages and literatures perfectly fits him. The......

Tuesday Night Was Given Up To The Discussion Of The

duties on spirits in Great Britain and the prohibition of spirits in Rome. Mr. Whiteside raised the former discussion, maintaining of course that the duties led to large illicit......

In The House Of Lords On Tuesday, Lord Grey Proved,

at least to his own satisfaction, that if the colonists had never had representative institutions in New Zealand the Maories would never have got frightened about the......