1 AUGUST 1868, page 1

News Of The Week.

ARLI M E NT was prorogued by Royal Commission yesterday afternoon. The Queen's Speech is better written than usual, and shorter. It congratulates Parliament, of course, on the......

The Prime Minister Was Also Impressed Afresh With The...

stance which he termed at the Merchant Taylors' dinner "an awful dispensation of Providence," namely, that the extended franchise of the Reform Act should be used for the first......

The Session Is At Last Over, And Mr. Disraeli Either

thinks, or thinks it well to say, that it has been a singularly successful one, on which the country is to be congratulated. The Lord Mayor entertained her Majesty's Ministers......

Parliament Had Its Last Regular " Shindy " For The

session yester- day week,—the last of a long series. It was, of course, on that mysterious Cattle Markets Bill, the rights and wrongs of which have been hardly fathomable by......

The Week Has Been Less Uniformly Hot Than The Last

; Wed- nesday was damp, and almost cold ; indeed, we heard of fires being in demand in some families on the evening of that day ; but Thursday and yesterday again were sultry,......