25 JANUARY 1868, page 2

Lord Hobart Has Been Trying To Make Out A Case

for including the reference of our right to acknowledge the belligerency of the South in the reference to arbitration proposed by Lord Stanley as to the Alabama claims. We......

The House Of Representatives Of The United States Has Been

short and sharp with Mr. Johnson. In reply to his Message ask- ing them to thank General Hancock for his nobility in declining to over-ride by military authority the Civil......

On Wednesday Mr. Lowe Made A Very Brilliant Speech—...

reported in the Times of Friday, and not apparently by telegraph—in Liverpool, on middle-class education. He remarked Mr. Lowe,—then, that would be the way to make them rise......

Sent The Emperor The Cap And Staff Usually Presented To

Sovereigns house" to mind the greater affairs going on around him. Mr. Lowe who have done any conspicuous act on behalf of the Church. The maintained that had he been better......

A Man Named Barratt, Believed To Be The Person Who

actually fired the powder which blew down the wall of Clerkenwell Prison, has been arrested in Glasgow.......

The Nickname Of " The Upper Ten Thousand" Seems To

involve a numerical mistake. It appears from some tables just presented to the Statistical Society by Mr. Dudley Baxter, tables based upon income-tax returns, that 7,084 persons......

The Irish Government Has Made An Amusing But Still Provoking

blunder. The well known George Francis Train, the man who tried to lay down tramways on the Bayswater Road, and was fined, he says, about 20,0001. for not understanding that......

That Is Pretty Complete In Itself, But The House Of

Represen- tatives has gone further. It has passed, by 123 against 45 votes, a declaratory Bill asserting that there are as yet no valid civil governments in the late rebel......

Mr. Lowe Concluded By A Very Forcible Denunciation Of Educa-

tional endowments, which he considered as bribes given by a bar- barous age to a civilized age to keep it back as near as possible to the standard of its own barbarism. After......