It Is Stated, We Perceive, That The Ten Years' Enlistment
rule will this year cost the army about 12,000 men, and the Commander-in- Chief has issued a circular calling on all recruiting officers to be active. The Indian papers add that......
The Commemoration At Oxford Began On The 8th June, But
was of course, less brilliant than last year. The undergraduates cheered Lord Derby, hissed the name of Mr. Bright, were bitterly divided about that of Mr. Gladstone,......
There Is An Official Account Of A Great Success Of
General Cameron's in New Zealand, and an unofficial account from Melbourne of an Eng- lish reverse. The success is important-. Brigadier-General Carey had on the 31st March......
The Richmond Examiner Writes One Of Those Polished And...
articles for which the Confederacy has received so much credit in this country on the most questionable authority, on the subject of two Federal Generals made prisoners in the......
We Were Mistaken In Assuming That Dr. Stanley Had Declined
the honorary Cambridge degree of LL.D. It was conferred on yesterday week, the day after the Prince's degree and those of his suite, amidst cheering almost as warm as greeted......
The Government Has Within The Last Week Proposed Three Con-
siderable grants,--500/. a year to the widow of Sir JohnInglis, who defended Lucknow, and. who died too early to reap the profits of his consequent promotion, 1,000/. a year to......
Mr. Bass's Bill Making It Obligatory On Organ-grinders To...
on if desired by a householder has passed its second reading. Sir George Grey opposed it of course, but we cannot say we antici- pated Mr. Gladstone's resistance. The Chancellor......
Yesterday Week Lord Shaftesbury Got The Chimneysweepers'...
Bill. through Committee in the House of Lords. He gave a sickening account of the tortures to which the small boys are still exposed in "breaking them in" to go up the chimneys,......
The Emigration Commissioners' Report Seemsto.dispose Of...
very large emigration from Ireland last year to the United States was due in any appreciable degree to Federal enlistments. The number was not so large as in 1854 (thelast year......
The Prussian Government Is Trying Hard To Abolish The Sixth
commandment. Not content with ordering its soldiery to kill inoffensive Danes, it dismisses them for want of readiness to kill each other. Three brothers, the Counts of......
General Butler Has Got A Steam-gun In His Encampment On
the James River whose performance has been so rapid as to astonish the army. Some Confederate prisoners inquired eagerly on coin- inginto camp whether they "loaded it all night......
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