An Irish Baronet Has Hit Upon A Clever Idea For
the : prevention of agrarian outrage. His bailiff was threatened, whereupon he in- formed the tenantry that in the event of the bailiff being killed he should raise their rents......
The French Government Seems Disposed To Impoverish As...
control the Press. The Minister of the Interior has started an Evening Moniteur at a halfpenny, which it is supposed the public will buy, to the exclusion of other papers. We......
As Regards The Murder Of Settlers By Maories, Mr. Buxton
has clearly got into difficulties. The nobler tribes themselves repu- diated as murder the act which caused the war, and which Mr. Buxton wishes to soften into "a shocking......
The Death Of Meyerbeer The Great Composer Is Announced This
week. Like many great composers, he was a Jew, the son of a banker of Berlin, and very wealthy. fle has left one great opera, Africaine, "finished and ready for the stage,......
• Mr. Charles Buxton, In A Letter To The Times
of Thursday, takes occasion to find fault with our description of the Confiscation Act, as "An Act for the Confiscation of some of the Land of the Rebellious Maories," and......
The Electric Telegraph Is Working Well Between Bussorah...
It only remains to complete the section through the valley of the Euphrates to make the chain from London to Calcutta complete.......
The Bishop Of Niger Is To Be A Black Man,
the Rev. Samuel Crowther,—the first pure negro ever elevated to the episcopal see, though very -far from the first true African, witness the great St. Augustine. His life has......
Sir Charles Trevelyan Has Produced His Budget, And It Is
unexpectedly satisfactory. There is a small surplus of 30,000/., and he has reduced the ad valorem duties on cotton goods from 10 to 7i per cent. There is, however, to be a......
Mr. Ewart Moved For A Committee On Tuesday To Inquire
into the expediency of maintaining the punishment of death, which he supported chiefly by showing that the chances of escape from the reluctance of the jury to convict were much......
The Calamities Of Lancashire Would Be Coming To An End
if the Surat cotton were at all like the American, or even the Dharwar cotton, which is quite as good. As it is, it is said that it comes to hand so dirty that it positively......
In A Discussion On Thursday On The Expenditure For Small
arms, Mr. Cobden made a promise which his friends will receive with pleasure. He believes, like everybody else, that there is excessive waste in all the manufacturing......
Mr. J. B. Smith Moving On Monday Night To Limit
the operation of the new sugar duties to a year, made a great speech in favour of a uniform.duty, in which he tried to make it appear that the refiners object to low sugar......
The Prize Proposed For The Best Design, For The New
Museum of lalatirral History which is to be :erected in South Kensington has fallen to Captain Fowkes. The committee to which the task of selection was assigned included men......
Tunis Is Known To Be In Revolt, But The Details
are carefully con' cealed, though French and English ships have been sent to the Bay to protect Europeans. The Arabs of Algeria are also in open in- surrection, stimulated, it......
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