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There Is Clearly A Hero Among Literary Men Whom Editors—and

the poor also—should delight to honoui. In relleyclay's Pall Mall Gazette appears the first of a short series of letters wiittenbya gentle- man who tested forhimself, at the......

The Existence Of Bethnal Green Is The Best Proof Of

English civilization. That social order must indeed be strong which pre- vents people living as its people seem to do from making a rush upon their happier neighbours, " to live......

The Trustees Of Mr. Peabody's Gift Appear To Have Used

his money well. They have spent half of it on buildings in Spited- fields, Islington, and Shadwell, of which the first two are finished and occupied. There are about 800......

The Jamaica News Tells Us Only That The Legislature Were

pre- paring to commit their constitutional reform entirely to the Home Government, and that a despatch—or extracts of a despatch— from Mr. Cardwell, apparently approving of all......

The Treaty With Bootan Appears To Be Breaking Down. Sir

W. Mansfield, the Commander-in-Chief, has arranged that if the two guns taken at Dewangiri are not restored by the 1st January the army shall commence its march on Poonakha and......

Mr. Gladstone Has Addressed A Letter To Sir T. D.

Lloyd depre- cating a State insurance for cattle. He believes that as the consumer is sure to pay for the loss in the end in the increased price of meat, it would be unfair to......

Admiral Sir J. D. Hay Intends To Contest Tiverton As

an out- spoken Tory partizan. He will not resist a good measure, from whomsoever it may come, but he prefers Lord Derby. His ad- dress to the electors was brief, and had Lord......

Our Readers May Remember That Our. New York Correspondent...

during the war, the assertion frequently made here and at the South, that the Federal armies were largely recruited from the foreign population of the United States and from......

A Case Was Heard At The Old Court On Wednesday

involving an extraordinary conflict of evidence. A young man named William Shirley, on the 2nd ult., asked his former employer, Mr. H. Hus, of Roupell Street, Lambeth, for a......

The New York Correspondent Of The Times Believes That The

American Fenians will really make an attempt upon Canada, and gives one strong reason for his belief. The new " President " Roberts and his Senate represent the immediate war......

The Prussian Project Of Annexing The Duchies Hangs Fire, An

it is said that Herr von Bisniark has received a serious check. The Russian Court, which is just about to proclaim the betrothal of its heir to the Princess Dagmar, does not......

The Austrian Treaty Of Commerce Is Not So One-sided As

it was alleged to be. It appears from the text published in the Gazette of the 9th inst., that while Austria promises from January, 1867, to levy no duties heavier than 25 per......