9 APRIL 1870, page 1

Some Months Ago We Said The New Canadian Fishery Rules

would breed trouble, and were sharply snubbed for our pains. Now General Grant has informed Congress, by special message, that he thinks Canada is going to enforce these rules......

News Of The Week.

I ALPERIAL constitutionalism has been in serious danger this week. The new Constitution retains the proviso authorizing the Emperor when he pleases to appeal to the people for a......

The First Great Fight On The Irish Land Bill Came

off on Monday, when Mr. Disraeli moved that the compensation for eviction pro- vided in Clause 3 should be limited by the insertion of the words "in respect of unexhausted......

On The Following Day Mr. Chichester Fortescue Moved His....

clause declaring that a tenant disturbed in his holding by his landlord shall be entitled to compensation for the dis- turbance up to a certain scale. The debate of the previous......

The State Of Feeling In The House Is Threatening. On

the Dublin University question yesterday week, — i.e., nomi- nally on the question of adjournment, — many excellent Liberals voted against their leader and party, though Mr.......

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The Oxford And Cambridge Boat-race Came Off On Wednesday,...

Cambridge won for the first time in ten years. The day was fine, all London turned out ; there was a frightful crush all along the river bank,—attended, according to the Lancet,......

The House. He Had Consented To Limit To Twenty Years

the interference with freedom of contract. He reluctantly consented to include all tenants of holdings of £50 rent and upwards, in the class with whose free contracts the Bill......