London Has Had A Short Cab Strike. The Cabmasters Were
irritated by an order, embodied in that unlucky Metropolitan Streets' Act, directing them to provide their cabs with lamps, and on Wednesday all cabs drove home at four o'clock.......
There Was A Debate On Thursday In The Lords Upon
Abyssinia, the tameness of which was a little broken by a speech from the Earl of Ellenborough. His Lordship, who has ordered invasions in his time, thought the war just enough,......
The Cabmasters And Cabmen Accordingly Called A Meeting At...
p.m. at Exeter Hall, which was attended by about 5,000 masters and drivers, so many., indeed, that a supplementary meeting was held in Trafalgar Square. The meeting was most......
News Of The Week.
P ARLIAMENT has finished its work, and will not reassemble till the fith or 13th of February. It has been sitting seventeen days, during which it has voted two millions for the......
The Event Of The Week Has Been A Sudden And
to us unintel- ligible change in French politics. On Monday, M. de Moustier was reasonable, not to say conciliatory, in his language about Italy, and even on Wednesday said at......
Colonel Merewether Announces, In A _letter Which Sir...
publishes without a date, that lie has discovered a pass from the coast to the highlands of Abyssinia, passable-for cavalry and camels, and improvable by hard work. A second......
The New Bishop Of Lichfield Is To Be Dr. Selwyn,
now Bishop of New Zealand. We have discussed the appointment, which, in spite of our cordial dislike to Dr. Selwyn's Church principles, we heartily approve, elsewhere. The new......
The Propriety Of Pouring These Insults Upon Italy Was...
by a vote of the Chamber, rejecting M. Jules Favre's proposals by 237 to 17. The Napoleons announce that their permanent func- tion is that of gendarmes to the Vatican, and a......
The Publisher Of The Spectator Will Feel Obliged By...
intended for the Current Number being sent in as early in the week as possible. - It is impossible to guarantee the insertion of Advertisements sent in after 12 o'clock on......
