The Ballot Bill Now Only Awaits The Third Reading, Which
is fixed for 30th May. The Bill was reported on Monday, after a long debate upon the method of taking the votes of electors who cannot read. Mr. Forster at first proposed to......
The Cincinnati Platform Adopted By The Liberal...
which, if they are realized, will go far to undo the results of the Civil War. The Liberals affirm the abolition of slavery and the right of negroes to vote, but they declare......
The Conservatives Of Kent Had A Grand Banquet At Canterbury
on Tuesday, at which Mr. Gathorne Hardy made a speech, described by Conservatives as most eloquent and able. It was very fiery, very full of hope, and sometimes a little......
The House Of Othman Is Going To Commit A Huge
blunder. It has for five hundred years been a tradition of that House to con- sider its eldest male the heir of the throne, and thus avoid the absurdity of devolving the......
Mr. Gavan Daffy, The Prime Minister Of Victoria,...
a banquet at Castlemaine on the 20th of March one of those spirited speeches which raise colonial questions into a higher- level of political life. He gave a sketch of the......
Has M. Thiers Lost All Control Of His Police? He
promised not to send any more destitute Communists to England, but they are shipped hither every week in batches, the captains of the steamers receiving their pay direct from......
Mr. Cavendish Bentinck Appears To Be As Unmanageable A-...
of unparliamentary as of Parliamentary committees. We are probably not wrong in ascribing to him the chief responsibility for a movement which has diminished the chances of a......
The Swiss Have Rejected Their New Constitution By A Majority
of about 5,000, and a cantonal vote of 13 to 9, and the project must therefore be abandoned. The idea of the reformers was to transfer to the Federal Government the control of......
The Pope, As We Mentioned Last Week, Has Finally Declined
to receive Cardinal Hohenlohe as Ambassador from the German Empire, and it was expected that Prince Bismarck would retort by breaking off all communication with the Vatican. He......
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