27 APRIL 1872, page 2

M. Thiers Has Evidently Received And Accepted A Hint Of

some kind from Berlin. On Monday, on the re-assembling of the Assembly, he told the members that the Government could dis- cuss the Army Bill much more usefully at the sittings......

The Ballot Is Getting On. On Monday The House Agreed

by 199 to 91 that the voter should not be compelled to disclose his vote in any legal proceedings, and on Thursday that personation should be a felony punishable with two years'......

Mr. Newdegate's Dismal Appeal To The House On Tuesday Night

for leave to bring in a Bill for the appointment of a very odd Commission of Inquiry,—namely, into Conventual Institu- tions, and further, to inquire what regulations are needed......

The Government Of France Is Getting Through An Enormous...

of work. The Revision of Military Grades, for example, has been completed by the Commission appointed for that purpose, and has been accepted by both armies,—Napoleon's and Gam-......

Sir Colman O'loghlen's Bill Repealing The Acts Which...

Lord Chancellorship in England and Lord-Lieutenancy in Ireland to be occupied by Catholics, which •prohibit the foundation of monasteries, and which declare bequests for masses......

An Experienced Fruit-grower, With Two Or Three Skilled...

say £1,500 of capital, might now make a large fortune in Jamaica. There is no limit to the demand in Europe and the Union for tropical fruit, and no kind of tropical fruit, from......

Theameer Of Afghanistan, A Man Of Real Though...

has addressed a letter of regret for Lord Mayo's death to the acting Viceroy, Lord Napier, which contains a remarkable ex- pression of the great sub-thought of Asia, the......

The German Government Has Struck A Heavy Blow At The

Catholic Episcopate. The Bishop of Ermeland recently excom- municated. two Professors of Braunsberg for declining to teach the doctrine of infallibility, and the Minister of......

The Bishop Of Exeter On Friday Week Made A Speech

at Laun- ceston against the sale of advowsons, which he said was most shocking to the religious sentiment, not only of Churchmen, but of Nonconformists, and lowered the patrons'......

King Amadeo Opened The Cortes On Wednesday, In A Speech

in which he stated that "he would never impose himself upon the Spanish people, but neither would he allow himself to be accused of deserting the post which he occupied by that......

Lord Lansdowne Has Been Appointed Under-secretary For War.

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