4 NOVEMBER 1871, page 2

Mr. Gladstone .has Written A Letter To The...

Oxford and Cambridge, explaining that the Ministry think a complete inquiry should be made into the property and. revenues of Oxford and Cambridge,—not only the Universities,......

The Intelligence Which Drops In From Persia From To -day

fully confirms our view of the calamity. Colonel Pelly at Bushire telegraphs that he has 2,4500 starving wretches to feed daily, and that the very appearance of the children in......

The Emperor Of Austria Has For The Moment Terminated The

constitutional crisis by accepting the resignation of the Hohenwart Ministry. Baron Adlerberg has been appointed Premier, with orders to find a compromise, but no Cabinet......

The Grades Of Cornet And Ensign Are Abolished, The Proba-

tioners, called Sub-Lieutenants, receive their first commission as Lieutenants, and rise by seniority to be Majors. A Majority, how- ever, can be held, and a......

The Railway System Of The Continent Has Been Thrown Out

of . gear by the war. Complaints of uupunctuality are incessant, and the Tines publishes daily accounts of robberies of luggage. To the English traveller, however, the most......

The Various Divisions Showed A Decided Excess Of Voting...

on the side of the fees to denominational schools, and, in spite of Professor Huxley's opposition, a great excess of able speaking on the same side. A remark of Mr. Few's on......

Purchase, Which Was Killed Last Session, Was Buried On...

day, November I. From that date a new system of appointment and promotion comes into force. By a Royal Warrant, dated October 30, it is ordered that for the future Purchase......

The Bonapartist Movement In Corsica Seems To Have Broken...

in this way. The Bonapartiets arranged a prontoicimniotto there, and arranged that Prince Napoleon, who is intriguing "pretty much on his own hook," as the Americans say, and......

It Is Curious To Note The Kind Of Eagerness With

which the new Government of Germany regards all questions of money. Prince Bismarck, in his speech to Parliament on 12th October, upon the new Convention with France, said he......

The Metropolitan School Board, After A Week's Hard...

the course of which Professor Huxley, apparently bout on undermining, even before he had read, our high opinion of his political abilities, indulged in a violent, unwise, and......