The Archbishop Of York Headed A Deputation To The Earl
of Devon, President of the Poor Law Board, on the subject of Work- house Infirmaries, this day week, and explained with great force the horrors of the country workhouse......
The Duke Of Marlborough Introduced The Government Measure...
Education on Tuesday night, in the House of Lords. The best its friends can say for it is, that " it is a very little one." Its opponents will assert that most of that little is......
The Very Fear Of A Householder Parliament Is Doing Good.
On Thursday night the House of Commons, by a vote of 152 to 127, accepted an amendment to the Mutiny Bill prohibiting corporal punishment — that is, we presume, flogging and......
Marquis Townshend Seems Inclined To Do All He Can To
make philanthropy ridiculous. A servant girl in the employ of a Mr. Pitt received letters addressed to her as " Miss So-and-So." Mr. Pitt (not being apparently a man of the age)......
Mr. Forster Brought Forward His Motion On The...
yesterday week in a very lucid and instructive speech. He pointed out the absurdity of attempting to retain any control over 2,450,000 subjects of the Queen resident in the......
The Lords Have Agreed To A New Committee On The
absurd Ecclesiastical Titles' Act, passed in 1852, and never yet put in force. The idea seems to be that that Act is a sort of protest against the right of the Pope to interfere......
Lord Cairns Introduced In The House Of Lords, On Monday
night, a measure consolidating the Bankruptcy law of the kingdom into a single Bill, and making certain inadequate changes for the future. Two of the most important of the new......
" Captain " Mackay, The Fenian Accused Of Attacking Messrs.
Allport's gunshop and other adventures, and of killing a police- man while resisting arrest, has been sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. He made a most touching speech,......
Sir W. Maxwell Stirling Had Better Ground For His Assumption
of his maternal grandfather's baronetcy than we thought last week. It is of course an absurdity that an hereditary knighthood—and a baronetcy is only that—should devolve upon a......
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