6 MAY 1871, page 3

The London School Board Has At Last Decided To Get

to work, or rather to get to what the world would recognize as work, for it has really done a great deal of good work in its Committees. It has resolved :—" That the Board,......

Mr. Jacob Bright's Bill For Conceding The Parliamentary...

to female householders, if single women, was defeated on Wednesday by 220 to 151, after a debate in which the honours were carried away by Mr. Bright himself, who argued his......

Consols Were On Friday 93f To 93.

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Negotiations At Brussels Do Not Appear To Progress Very...

There has been a hitch about the commercial treaty, which M. Thiers refuses to grant, and there are difficulties about the indem- nity. The French offered 214,000,000 a year in......

The Westmeath Bill Passed Its Second Reading In The Lords

on Tuesday. Its object is simply to enable the Lord-Lieutenant to suspend the Habeas Corpus in Westmeath and some adjacent baronies for two years, but persons escaping from the......

The Bishops Of The Irish Church Have At Length Consented

to take part in a complete revision of the formularies of the Church, to be conducted in a cautions and reverent spirit, and therefore all further discussion of the proposals of......

Professor Harley Made A Clever Speech At The Academy Dinner

of Saturday. It is wonderfully difficult to say anything new on those occasions, everything is so used-up, and thought is so restricted by the necessity of answering to the......

Mr. Seely, On Tuesday, Moved That Postage Between America...

England should be reduced from 3d. to id. The point of ibis speech, a very inadequate one, was that no rate above id. tempted the masses to write, or could, therefore, be......

A Public Meeting Of The Friends And Pupils Of The

late Professor De Morgan is to be held in the building of the University of Lon- don next Wednesday (10th May) at hall-past 4 o'clock (after the ceremony of conferring degrees......

Mr. Jacob Bright Will Probably Be Consoled For His Defeat

by the half-adhesion of the Premier, who seemed to think a visit to the polling-booth would injure women, but that, the ballot once established, they might be admitted to the......