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The Duchess Of Edinburgh, Grand Duchess Marie Of Russia, Was

on Thursday morning safely delivered of a son. Mother and child have since been doing well.......

It Will Be Remembered That Lord Carnarvon, In His Latest

speech on the Fiji Islands, stated that he had requested Sir Hercules Robinson to visit them and report finally on the expediency of annexation. It would now appear that Sir......

Rumours From The Seat Of War In Spain Now All

take one form. The Basques and Navarrese are growing rapidly tired of the war, of- which they bear the brunt. One day there is a report of a mutiny in the Carlist ranks, another......

News Of The Week.

T HE Government of Spain has addressed to that of France a Note, in which it complains , bitterly of the assistance afforded by French officials, in the Basses Pyrenees, to the......

Lord Coleridge Made A Speech At Exeter On Tuesday, At

the celebration of the anniversary of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and of that fOr the Propagation of the Gospel, in which he insisted much on the......

The General Result Of The Elections To The French Councils

- General seems to be that the Monarchists and Republicans are about equal, and that the Bonapartists, 150 in number, or say ten per cent. of the whole, hold the balance. This......

A Paris Correspondent Of Last Saturday's Times Asserted,...

authority of a letter in the Magdeburg Gazette, that it is in con- templation to choose Queen Victoria as arbitrator between Den- mark and Germany, giving her power to fix what......

It Is Stated That The New Bill On The Landsturm,

to be intro- duced at the next Session of the German Parliament, will include every man under forty-two in the " first call ;" that is, every man in Germany under that age, and......

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