The North Germans Have Settled Their Quarrel With The United
States very quickly and very sensibly. A treaty has been ac- cepted providing that henceforward a North German who has been naturalized in America and has resided there five......
The Pope Has Presented The Golden Rose, "the Mystic Rose
bedewed with balm and musk, typifying the sweet odours which should exhale from the good deeds of all of us," to Queen Isabella of Spain. It was presented to her on the 8th......
A Report Is Current In Contiuental Capitals That Prince...
of Hohenzollern, Hospodar of the Principalities, intends to de- clare himself shortly King of Roumania, and independent of the Porte. Support for this policy has been sought at......
The Prussians Seem Dreadfully Touchy About The...
King of Hanover. He has been celebrating his silver wedding at Hietzing, which was attended by some 500 Hanoverians, whom he addressed in a flaming speech. He expects, he says,......
Lord Cranborne Has Made His First Speech As Chairman Of
the Great Eastern Railway. It differs from other such speeches in only two aspects ; it is true, and everybody believes it to be true, and consequently even the shareholders......
Mr. Sullivan, The Editor Of The Nation, Accused Of Writing
seditious libels, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Mr. Pigott, for a similar offence rather deeper in dye, has received twelve. The verdicts were just, and the......
Mr. Bright's Recent Proposal To Spend Something Like...
breaking the fall of the endowed churches in Ireland by giving to each, in absolute property, some little portion of the capitalized value of the tithes, and at the same time......
Mr. Goschen Made An Able Speech On Friday Week, Introducing
a kind of amateur budget for London and the great cities. The speech was a little too cautious to catch a public still ignorant of the urgent need of reform in our municipal......
We Stated Last Week, In Recording The Very Numerous Legal
appointments of the present Government, that "the only instance in which professional standing has been recognized as superior to party fidelity was in the case of Sir Robert......
The Army Estimates For 1868-69 Have Been Published. The...
is to pay 15,455,0001., exclusive of Abyssinian charges, or about 200,0001. more than last year. For this sum of ten shillings a head on the population it obtains 136,650 men,......
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