9 FEBRUARY 1867, page 2

All Accounts From Italy Concur In Stating That Parliament...

not accept S. Scialoja's scheme for the conversion of Church property. Not fifty members, it is said, will vote for it. The majority, it appears, believe, with us, that it is......

No Defence, Or Attempt At Defence, Was Really Offered By

the Council to the meeting. The dignitaries of the majority stood on their dignity, denied all responsibility, and stayed away. The younger members of the Council kept silence.......

The Trades' Unions' Commission Is Exciting Great Interest...

working men, who urge very sensibly that, especially if it is to have compulsory powers, it ought to contain either an equal number of masters and men, or none of either class,......

The Figures Of The Great Orissa Disaster Are At Last

becoming clear. The Government of Bengal, in a despatch intended to explain its conduct and defend its inaction, admits that one- fifth of the population has perished, or about......

The Friends Of The Non-sectarian Principle In University...

were beaten on Saturday by a narrow majority of 5,- 37 for and 42 against the assertion of the principle that no can- didate, "otherwise the most eligible" for a Professorship,......

The State Of Mexico Seems To Grow Worse Daily. The

French are concentrating on the capital preparatory to departure, and as they retreat the brigands spread abroad, plundering and killing at discretion. We hear from Guanaxuato......

Lord Stanley Was Asked On Thursday Night As To The

Spanish trial in a Prize Court of our steamer Tornado, the illegalities in the procedure, the long delay, and the cruel imprisonment of many British subjects which is said to......

The Condition Of The South At Present Seems To Be

rather worse than that which Mr. Hepworth Dixon describes as existing in the Far West. There the re'gime is anarchy tempered by the revolver and by desperadoes of order like Mr.......

The Party In England Who Think That Masters Have A

moral right to combine, but that workmen have not, have recently been crying up Belgium as a sort of capitalists' paradise. Trades' Unions do not flourish there, and......

There Appears To Be At Last A Fair Prospect Of

the reconciliation of Hungary with her King. The Committee of the Diet, which includes M. Desk, has agreed to the bases of an arrangement under which the King will command the......

Sir Stafford Northcote On Thursday Introduced His Bill...

management of insolvent railways. It is difficult to decide until the Bill has been printed, but judging from Sir Stafford's very in- volved and cumbrous speech, the proposal is......