6 JULY 1878, page 2

The Second Reading Of The Contagious Diseases (animals)...

carried on Monday night by a very great majority,-157 (319 against 162), in a House not very well attended, for so important an occasion. Moreover, only twenty-six Members......

The Times' Correspondent At Berlin Was On Wednesday...

an interview with Prince Bismarck, who told him that he himself had desired peace, and had, in the interest of peace, borne the fatigue of the deliberations of Congress. He......

The Irish Intermediate Education Bill Was Read A Second Time

in the House of Lords without a division yesterday week, nor does the Committee on the Bill appear to have been in any degree less prompt in its deliberations. But outside the......

Dr. Cameron's Habitual Drunkards Bill Passed Its Second...

Wednesday, subject to an understanding that the compulsory clauses are to be taken out. Under the Bill, as it will stand, any habitual drunkard may apply to the manager of a......

The Duke Of Richmond And Gordon Received Last Week A

deputation from Manchester New College, the drift of which he did not seem very well able to catch. The prayer of the deputa- tion,—who represented a College in which......

On Saturday, Lord Granville Cut The First Sod Of The

Deal and Dover Railway, and made a very amusing speech, or rather series of speeches, in one of which he quoted some one who had said that to give a good reason for a measure in......

Archdeacon Denison Is Very Much Incensed Against The...

Education Bill, for a double reason,—fi rat, because it proposes to make some use of the surplus obtained from the sacri- lege of Irish Disestablishment ; next, because it......

Lord Hammond Made A Curious Speech On Monday About The

alleged sale of the Anglo-Russian agreement to the Globe. He seemed to think the scandal was a final answer to the scheme of introducing competition into the Foreign Office. The......