16 AUGUST 1873, page 3

Mr. Isaac Butt, So Long The Advocate Of Home Rule,

has now, at Waterford, explained that this phrase means "the repeal of the Union, and something more." What is the " more " to be ? Independence? Federalism ? the confiscation......

The Registrar-general Gives Us Some Definite Figures As...

rise of prices of which housekeepers complain so much. It has been very considerable, wheat, for instance, in the quarter end- ing 1st August, was 56s. 5d. a quarter, instead......

The Ritualists Have Found Another Absurdity To Worry...

with. They want to build " baldacchinos," or canopies, -over their altars, of course to signify that the mystical Presence is there ; and their congregations are very angry, and......

It Appears From A Correspondence Now Published By The...

that Mr. Gladstone was in June making great efforts to secure to the poor greater advantages from the Railways. He appears to have informed the Railway Companies' Association......

The Viennese Have Got Hold Of Or Invented A Story

which fully accounts for the unpuuctuality of the Shah. He carries about with him a little fat man, whom he calls his astrologer, and who ascertains for him the propitious......

The Italian Correspondent Of The Times Gives Some...

of the state of the Italian Army. It is now so organised, he says, under General Ricotti that it can place 300,000 men in the first line, with endless half-trained reserves. The......

The Lieutenant-governor Of Bengal Has Recently Repeated A...

laid down, we believe, by Lord Lawrence, that while Government is bound to stand neutral as between Hindoos, Mussulmans, and Christians, it is still able to use a wider dis-......

Italy Is Labouring Under A Difficulty Which, It Has Been

sus- pected, troubled Munoo. The great Indian lawgiver, or the rulers whose ideas he embodied, appear to have appre- hended either that cattle would be slain in war or eaten in......

We Are Told That Sir T. Sutton Western, Whose Claims

are nevertheless fully acknowledged by the Government, could not have been appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Essex without a breach of order such as has been perpetrated by the......

Consols Were On Friday 921 To 92i.

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Mr. Bruce Has Taken The Title Of Lord Aberdare.

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