The Lord Chancellor Has Withdrawn The County Courts...
Bill, and promises to introduce another next Session, which shall not be liable to any of the objections raised against this.......
The Ashantee Blunder Has Very Nearly Turned Out The Govern-
ment. On Friday night, too late for our last issue, Sir JollEkn4; moved a resolution amounting to a vote of censure on the Goveite- ! meat for its management of the Ashantee......
A Strange Principle Has Just Been Introduced Into Our...
legislation. The Great Eastern lately proposed a line to the north which, in consequence of its easy gradients, would have cheapened coal enormously in the four counties where......
Mr. Hennessy On Tuesday Called Attention To The Immense...
from Ireland, which he said amounted in 1861 to 64,292, in 1862 to 70,117, in 1863 to 117,820, and would in this year be 156,000. Between 1851 and 1861 no less than 400,000......
Mr. Smith O'brien, The Irish Rebel Of 1848, Died At
Bangor on Saturday, the 18th inst. A Protestantand a gentleman, with a good education and a better fortune, Mr. O'Brien was one of those men with whom conviction always implies......
The Record Affirms That The Hebdomadal Board Intend To Pro-
pose the endowment of the Regius Professorship of Greek next term, and there is little doubt that the proposal will be carried.......
Mr. H. Berkeley And Lord Palmerston Had Their Usual Good-
natured duel about the ballot on Monday night, Lord Palmerston as usual coming off victorious both in argument and in votes. Mr. Berkeley took his place at the table on the......
Captain W. Palliser, Of The 18th Hussars, Is Said, In
the Times, to have made a most valuable discovery in artillery. This is the use of "chilled shot," i. e., shot cast in cold send moulds instead of hot iron ones. These pleasant......
The Contests For The Councils-general Of The French...
have ended in the election of a considerable number of members of the Opposition. At Bordeaux and Marseilles the Democratic party won a complete victory, and at Lyons they car-......
It Is Stated That The Cotton Famine Has Made The
fortune of Dundee. The manufacture of jute, the staple of the place, has increased in five years from 300,000 to 600,000 bales, the price of the material has scarcely increased,......
On Thursday Night The Debate On The Irish Education Resolu-
tions was resumed in the House of Commons, and Sir Robert Peel got a very amusing intellectual dressing at the hands of Sir Hugh • Cairns, who was fortunate in having one weak......
Lord Gage Withdrew Yesterday Week His Bill For Permitting...
who objected to read the Apocrypha in the daily ser- vice to substitute at pleasure a lesson from the Old Testament, The discussion which induced him to withdraw his Bill......
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