7 DECEMBER 1867, page 2

The Return Of Mr. Paget For South Leicestershire By A

majority of 33 was officially declared this day week, the issue having been doubtful to the very last moment. The Liberal victory shows, as we explained last week, an enormous......

The Farnham Investigation Is Proceeding, But The Only...

now brings out is the extreme feeling of some of the Guardians against "petting paupers." Several of them declared the tramp wards, which are shameful overcrowded hutches, as......

Lord Shaftesbury And Other Gentlemen Write To The Times To

recommend a peculiar form of charity. The poor children in Loudon are half starved, so starved that they can learn nothing in the Ragged Schools. It is found that one good......

Mr. Horace Greeley, Editor Of The New York Tribune, Has

been offered the American Embassy in Vienna,—an appointment con- firmed by the Senate, but declined by Mr. Greeley himself, who Mr. Johnson nominated him to the post, in order......

Because The Duke Of Marlborough Is About As Fit To

be a is right, we think, in objecting to the appointment of any one to the bead of our Educational institutions as an average Sunday- Vienna who is entirely unable to speak......

The Necessary Bill Was Introduced By Lord Derby The Same

evening with a very few remarks, but one curiously perfect repartee. Lord Romilly pleaded for free trade, the price to be painted up on each cab every six months, and said......

Calcutta Was Visited On November 1 By A Cyclone, Said

to have been worse in its effects than that of October, 1864. The storm began at 11 p.m. and raged till morning, sweeping from N. to S. and N.W. to S.E. with tremendous fury,......

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......

The American Secretary For The Treasury Reports That The...

for the year ending June, 1869, will be 76,200,000/., and the expenditure 74,400,000/ s and that the public Debt has, in the year ending November 30, been reduced by......

Mr. Reuter Has Furnished The Public, Through The Atlantic...

with a brief report of President Johnson's Message to Congress, presented on 2nd December. We have commented at length elsewhere on the two first paragraphs, which announce that......

The New Contract With The P. And 0. Company Was

accepted by the House of Commons on Friday se'nnight, though not without some murmurings. Mr. Ayrton objected to the shortness of the time allowed for tenders, ridiculed the......