4 SEPTEMBER 1869, page 2

The "stormy Petrel Of The Tuileries" Is Flying Abroad Again.

On September 1 Prince Napoleon made a speech in the Senate of an hour and a quarter, in which he declared that the way to pre- vent revolutions was to anticipate them ; that the......

The Master Of The Mint, Sir J. F. W. Herschel,

sends to the Times a long letter on Mr. Lowe's proposed reform in the coinage. His view appears in the main to agree with our own s —that Mr. Lowe is right, that it is very......

A Terrible Agrarian Murder Has Been Committed In County...

the first, it is said, for 100 years. Mr. James Hunter, a Scotch shepherd, hiied a farm of Dr. Gibbings on a lease which, as he held, included a right to a bog amidst some......

It Is Asserted That The Chinese Government Has Not Refused

to ratify the Treaty concluded through Mr. Burlingame with the United States. Mr. Burlingame himself has received a telegram in an entirely contrary sense, and the Times says,......

A Cable Telegram Of September 1 Informs Us That The

public debt of the United States has "been reduced since March 1 by 49,500,000 dollars," or, say, rather less than ten millions sterling. How Mr. Gladstone's mouth must water We......

The Irish Protestant Episcopalians Are Quite Resolved To...

laity power in the new organization of their Church, but they seem dreadfully puzzled to know how much power they ought to have. At a recent meeting called to request the two......

There Is A Kind Of Drift Visible In The Discussion

of this Irish Land question which is worth noting. It may arrive nowhere, for until Mr. Gladstone has spoken even the direction of the stream is uncertain ; but still there is a......

The Brazilians Seem To Make Little Progress In The War

with Paraguay. The Comte d'Eu, with 14,500 men, is lying in a valley at the foot of the hills occupied by Lopez, some thirty miles from Assuncion ; but he cannot advance a step,......

The Secret Of The Fall Of The Albert Has Been

pretty clearly revealed. It appears, from statements made at the shareholders' meetings, that the late Mr. Kirby, the manager, was entitled, under the original deed of the......