The British Government Has Now Seventeen Iron-clads...
of the best of them would have been a fair match for the combined German fleet—and by the middle of next year will have twenty-seven. Of those afloat ten are first-rates of the......
The Reports As To The Pope's Health Grow More And
more contra- dictory. According to the ecclesiastics and the Moniteur he never was better, according to all other persons his strength is fast dis- appearing. The Opinions......
In A Despatch Dated 15th May Herr Von Bismarck: Completely
throws over the Treaty of 1852, first remarking that it never bound them to any power but Denmark,because the ratifications were only exchanged between Berlin and Copenhagen,......
Mr. Baxter, Member For Montrose, On Friday Week Extorted...
Lord Palmerston a rather important statement as to the policy which will for the future be pursued by the British Govern- ment in China. The Orders in Council authorizing......
The First Examination Of Girls In Connection With The Local
examinations of Cambridge has turned out very much as might have been expected. In the subjects requiring vague intelligence the girls acquitted themselves well, and in some......
Sir John Ramsden Has For Some Years Past Been Fighting
his Huddersfield tenantry, and this week the quarrel came to a head. It appears that 1,700 of the canny Yorkshiremen who built that city did so without leases, holding the late......
He Was The Son Of A Peasant, Entered The Military
School of St. Cyr, and fought his way up to a Marshal's bitton in Algeria and the Crimea. He was principally known to Englishmen for an act committed in 1845, when he suffocated......
Lord Clarence Paget Moved On Thursday Night That An Addi-
tion should be made to the pay of the officers of the Navy. Flag officers commanding on foreign stations are to have an increase of 547/. 10s. a year, other flag officers abroad......
Lord Derby Tried To Get An Apology Out Of The
Lord Chancellor on Monday night for attributing to the University of Oxford in the recent debate something like a breach of engagement in refus- ing to endow the Oxford......
Mr. Cardwell Has Produced The New Zealand Act Which,...
to Mr. Charles Buxton, confiscated "the whole of the land of all the natives loyal as well as rebel from end to end of the Northern island" "at one fell swoop." The Act seems......
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