5 DECEMBER 1868, page 2

The Necessary Rules For The Trial Of Election Petitions Have

been issued, and appear intended to assimilate the proceedings as nearly as possible to those usual in a civil snit, the only proviso worthy of special note being the demand for......

Fuller Accounts Of The Disaster In New Zealand Serve To

prove that it was mainly due to the inexperience of the colonists in the work of defending themselves. They intended, when the Queen's troops were withdrawn, to form a Colonial......

As Far As We Understand The Poll Mail Gazette's Recent

enthu- siasm for Peers, it believes that a title constitutes the difference between statesmanship and clerkship. We read, in last night's paper :—" Brand, Lowe, Goschen, Ayrton,......

M. Berryer Died On The 29th November, In His Own

house at Angerville, at the age of 78. He was in his prime the greatest orator in France, and to his latest hours the one speaker who was never interrupted in the Legislative......

Mr. Reverdy Johnson Has Been "hedging." His Amenities To...

Wharncliffe, and Mr. Roebuck, and Mr. Laird have given so much offence in his own country, that at the banquet to him at Birmingham on Wednesday, he very judiciously balanced......

The Irrepressible Briton Is Going To Acquire Another...

Australian Company has bought rights in the Feejee islands, and a thousand emigrants have settled, built houses, and begun to cultivate crops. The natives not concerned in the......

In The English County Elections Which Last Week Remained To

be decided, and in which we ventured to hope against hope that the Liberals might achieve some success,—West Surrey and Mid- Somerset,—the Tories achieved a very decided......

We Are Again In Trouble In China. Under The Treaty

European Missionaries have a right to settle and teach, and Mr. Taylor with others did settle at Yang Chow, on the Yang-tze-Kiang. He and his colleagues, dressed in Chinese......

We Are A Long Way Yet From The Minor Appointments,

but we do hope that among them we shall not see this time the name of Mr. Layard, whose selection commits this country to the old Turkish policy abandoned by Lord Stanley. His......

General Grant's Election Has Already Produced A Wholesome...

the South. General Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, one of the most fierce of the firebrands, went immediately after the election to General Scott, aud withdrew all opposition......