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The Interest Of The Continent, In The Coming Meeting Of

the three Emperors increases daily. It is said that Cardinal Antonelli is so alarmed that he has counselled the Pope to make peace with Italy, lest further injury befall the......

The First Election Under The Ballot Has Ended In The

election of Mr. Childers for Pontefract by a vote of 658 to 578,—a majority of 80. As the number of registered electors is 1,960, some 724 electors, or more than a third of the......

The Election Was Marked By A Disagreeable Incident. Mr....

indignant at what he considered unfair opposition, declared that in 1868 Lord Pollington had professed his readiness to coalesce with him, had expressed admiration of Mr.......

News Of The Week.

P ARLIAM ENT was prorogued on Saturday, the 10th inst., Lord Granville reading a "Queen's Speech," which is for the most part a bald recapitulation of the legislative measures......

For The First Time Since July, 1870, We Are Absolutely

without news from France. The Assembly has dispersed, society in Paris has gone to the sea-side, the peasantry are occupied with the har- vest and the vintage, both of which are......

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By Far The Most Interesting Morsel Of Intelligence...

week comes to us from Yeddo, Japan. We had hardly expected so sudden a confirmation of our theory that the Mikado as semi- divine could do anything, even alter a creed ; but it......

Really Lord Derby Is Getting Quite Intolerable. Nobody...

business to put so much sense into speeches as he does unless he puts in something else, which Lord Derby now-a-days seems to consider superfluous. He laid the foundation-stone......