25 JANUARY 1873, page 2

The Two Members Of Parliament, Messrs. Whalley And...

have lately been stumping the country on behalf of the Claimant, were on Tuesday brought before the Court of Queen's Bench for contempt. They were charged with having at public......

The Fifth Sitting Of The National Congress Of Trades'...

held at Leeds on Friday week, was marked by an important in- cident. A distinct proposal was made to federate all the Trades' Unions in England—including, it was said, about......

The Very Popular Prussian Bills De Servd Ecclesitz (as They

might he called, by an analogy taken from. Luther's no less popular treatise De Servo Arbitrio) are much stronger than we knew last week. The most important of them,—the effect......

A Correspondent Informs Us That The Rifles In The "

strike " district of South Wales have not been removed, and re- monstrates against what he thinks our harsh opinion of the masters, who, he says, are still giving medical......

Another Death Of A Man Of Some Note Has Marked

the week,— that of the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, chiefly distinguished for the noble conscientiousness which induced him to give up his living in the Church of England and......

Mr. S. R. Graves, The Senior Member For Liverpool,. Died

suddenly at the Euston Hotel on Saturday morning. He had been dining with the Duke of Sutherland on the previous night, and returned late, apparently quite well ; but about 3......

The Week Has Been Very Fatal To Notabilities. On Saturday,

Lord Lytton, the novelist, dramatist, orator, and poet, died at Torquay, after a brief illness, aged sixty-seven. He is buried to-day in Westminster Abbey, an honour deserved by......

Dr. Lushington, So Long The Judge Of The Court Of

Arches andthe Admiralty Court, died on Monday morning, in his ninety- second year, at his seat near Oakham. He was born seven years before the great French Revolution, and only......

Isratated That The Masters Are Quite Rear* To Give Way

about wages if the men will consent to the double-shift system, that is, to let the work be done by relays of seven hours each. This would make the out-turn so large that the......