Mr. Lincoln Has Issued A Proclamation Calling Out 500,000...
scripts, a number which, however, includes the 300,000 men of the last draft. This order has been dictated, first, by a desire to accelerate volunteering, those who intend to......
Sir George Grey Brought In On Thursday Night His Bill
to amend the laws relating to penal servitude, chiefly in the direction advised by the Royal Commission. The new powers proposed to be taken by the Government are ample for the......
Mr. Adderley Criticized The Measure Sharply From His Own...
point of view—that of shorter, sharper, purely deterrent sentences, with no remissions or reformatory machinery of any kind. We are not prepared to abandon the hope that this......
The Week Has, Of Course, Been Full Of Rumours, But
only two of them are worth notice. One is that Prussia and Austria agree to make a "personal union" between the Duchies and Denmark the basis of final arrangements, thus......
Since The Election There Has Been A Regular Cross Fire
of letters and explanations, most of them very ill-tempered. Everybody asserts that everybody else pledged himself to resign on certain conditions, which the offender urges were......
Lord Palmerston Explained Yesterday Week That England,...
France, Russia, and Sweden," and "with the concurrence;' he believed, of Austria, had proposed an armistice on the basis of the evacuation of Schleswig, except the Island of......
Mr. Gladstone Has Introduced A Most Important Bill. It Is
technical in form, professing only to do away with certain restric- tions, but its real objects; are twofold. It enables the Chancellor of the Exchequer to turn the Post-office......
The Army Estimates Have Appeared, And Show A Reduction Of
some 200,0001., produced by knocking about 1,500 men from different corps. This is an unimportant reduction, and the military force of the country still costs 14,884,186/.,......
The Navy Estimates Have Been Published, And Show A Decrease
of 303,422/. on last year, namely, 10,432,6101. against 10,736,032/. for 1863. The chief decrease is on Vote 10 for naval stores, machinery, and ships built by contract, which......
The Second Reading Of The Insane Prisoners' Bill Was Taken
on Monday night. Our objection to the measure, that it provides no security to the public for the criminal's insanity, leaving it, as before, to the certificates of the visiting......
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