Peers, Living Lives Of Perpetual Holiday, Have, It Would...
a special interest in the holidays of other people. Their House was quite interested on Tuesday in a new holiday Bill, which was passed, and which discharges everyboly in......
The French Assembly Has Ratified The Treaty Of Frankfort...
a debate which turned mainly on the exchange of some cantons near Luxemburg for some cantons near Belfort. Bismarck wished the exchange because the new territory contains coal,......
On Thursday Night Colonel Anson Opened The Ball With A
still more plausible case. Rich officers do not like India,—dancing there is so hot. So when a regiment is ordered to India, rich officers pay poor officers as substitutes, and......
The Times Makes A Serious Statement About The New Plan
of enlisting men for short terms. The men are now offered enlist- ment for twelve years, six to be passed in the Line and six in the Reserve, that is, they are released at 24 to......
The Treaty As Now Voted Provides That Within Thirty Days
of the capture of Paris France shall pay £20,000,000 to Germany and Germany shall evacuate Normandy. By 1st May, 1872, £40,000,000 more must be paid, and Germany, if she......
Mr. Wren-hoskyns On Thursday Asked Mr. Bruce For A Pro-
mised return of the acreage owned by public corporate bodies in England and Wales, and Mr. Bruce confessed himself very nearly in despair how to get it. Everybody is always......
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Moved The Permissive Bill On...
an amusing speech, in which after producing all the stock arguments about the costliness and immorality of drunkenness, he offered the House a new inducement to accept his......
It Seems To Be Nearly Impossible In New York To
punish any- body if he belongs to the ruling fraternity of roughs. The omnibus-conductors are now said to be in league with desperadoes who enter the cars, insult women, steal......
Mr. A. Guest, During This Debate, Put A Favourite Army
objec- tion to the abolition of Purchase in a very neat form. He said that" every purchasing ensign paid the Government £450, the yearly interest upon which, at five per cent.,......
The Army Debate Drags On, The Colonels Being Resolved To
talk the abolition of Purchase out. OnlIonday, Mr. Muntz moved an amendment in Committee, providing that officers should be paid the regulation value of their commissions at......
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