Mr. Ayrton Has Found A New And Formidable Antagonist. Those
"children of this world," the Common Council, are at least as wise in their generation as those " children of light," the Metropolitan Board of Works, and foreseeing reform in......
The French Assembly Has Rejected The Project Of A General
Income-tax, after a speech from M. Thiers described as a splendid one. It was certainly most effective, the Right and Left listening with equally rapt attention, but to......
The Paris Correspondent Of The Times Has Done What We
wish all newspaper correspondents would condescend to do,—he has sent the Budget of the country to which he is accredited in " dry figures," arranged in a table, and without......
The Situation In Austria Is A Singular One, And Not
very easily intelligible. The Reichsrath contains 202 members, and one-half plus; one is easential to a quorum, without which the machine cannot work. The great object,......
Mr. Jacob Bright Proposes To Get Rid Of The House
of Lords. rather by starvation than by abolition. He thinks the best plan of reforming them would be never to create a new peerage in the place of those which die out,—never to......
The Communion Office, Too, May, According To The...
shortened by the omission of various parts, including even the Ten Commandments, with the Bishop's permission,—a consider- able innovation; but it is not, apparently, proposed......
Mr. Seeretary Fish Has Addressed And Published A Despatch To
Mr. Curtin, United States' Minister at St. Petersburg, which is, we suspect, a curiosity among diplomatic documents. It pro- fesses to be an account of the reasons which induced......
The Archbishop Of Canterbury Is About To Propose To Convo-
cation several very considerable changes in the regulations of the Church,—changee which are intended to make the services more "elastic," i.e., less uniform, more subject to......
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