23 AUGUST 1879, page 2

The Councils-general In France Are Now Beginning To Hold...

usual sessions, and M. Lepbre, the Minister of the Interior, has wisely assured them that they will be quite at liberty to discuss M. Jules Ferry's Education Bill, and its......

Captain Carey Arrived At Plymouth In The Jumna,' On Wed-

nesday night. He appears to have been living under no great apprehension, and is qUite content to await the decision of the authorities, hoping, however, that the court-martial......

The Ordre, M. Rouher's Organ, Is Trying To Prepare The

ground for Prince Jerome in a fashion that will agree to some extent with his bitterly anti-clerical past. It asserts that Napoleonism has always made war on Clericals and......

M. Pelletan Has Reported On Some Few Of The Petitions

sent in against M. Jules Ferry's Education Bill, and declares that the signatures to the petitions have been got up in a most wholesale and unscrupulous way,----which is most......

The Home Secretary Made A Speech, Or At Least Said

a few words, at Bootle on 'Wednesday, on occasion of a dinner given by the Ormskirk and Squthport Agricultural Society, in which he contented himself with sympathising with the......

Dr. Allman Set A Very Good Example, As President Of

the British Association, this year at Sheffield. By confining him- self on Wednesday to one subject, and that one which he pro- foundly knew, he made a remarkably interesting......

Of Mr. Mundella's Very Sagacious And Instructive Speech...

last Monday—which should be read in a local report like that of the Sheffield Independent, to be understood at all— we have said a good deal elsewhere, but it is well worth......