6 DECEMBER 1873, page 3

Despatches From The Gold Coast Were Published In London On

Tuesday announcing a victory over the Ashantees at Abra- krampa, where a gallant little force of 50 Marines and Blue- jackets, 96 negroes of the 2nd West India Regiment, 75......

The Irish University Debates Have Really Produced Some...

They have quickened the Irish Catholic intelligence, and made the English Catholics act on their principles. A very remarkable protest har3 been addressed by seventy students,......

As Far As We Know, There Is No Case In

which a clear Secularist majority has been elected on any School-Board except that at Birmingham. On several the Secularists have improved their posi- tion, and on several the......

The Results Of The School-board Elections In London,...

not known last week, are, on the whole, in very fair accord- ance with those obtained in the rest of the country. The party professing to favour the voluntary denominational......

'the Dutch Will Have As Much To Do At Acheen

as they can manage. They must conquer the place or give up their benefi- cial scheme of conquering Sumatra, but Acheen is the only inde- pendent Mussnlman sovereignty in the Far......

The Grand Scheme Put Forth For An English Catholic College

is not as yet matured, and nothing has yet been published as to resources, but there seems at least to be no lack of confidence in the laity in its inception. Instead of......

A Meeting Was Held At Willis's Rooms On Tuesday Afternoon

to raise a fund for a memorial to Bishop Wilberforce. It was addressed by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Gathorne Hardy, in terms of what seems to us extremely one-sided and exaggerated......

Consols Were On Friday 911 To 91i.

......

The Rate Of Discount Was On Thursday Reduced. To 5

per cent.......