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The News Of The Week From America Is Not Quite

so peaceful. The President gives no sign that he has changed his mind, and he is said to be supported by a vast body of opinion in the Western and Southern States, where a......

At The O'dorney Petty Sessions On December 2nd, A Case

of assault was tried, which brought out curiously the imagina- tive side of the Irish character, as well as its curiously loose and wandering conception of evidence. An old man......

A Parnellite Meeting Was Held In The Market Place At

Fermoy last Sunday, at which the Parnellite leader, Mr. J. Redmond, spoke in his usual strain. He had no pleasure, he said, in referring to the petty squabbles which had rent......

Mr. Alfred Austin Has Been Appointed To The Vacant...

as every one had known for the last few weeks that he would be. It is in the main, we take it, a political appointment, though we are by no means disposed to speak so lightly of......

Mr. Frederic Harrison Delivered The Usual New Year's...

the Positivists at Newton 1;411 on Wednesday. For once he took the English side, in ipeaking of the im- broglio with America, though we do not know that he did mach to conjure......

According To A Telegram Forwarded By Renter, And There- Fore

presumably demi-official, Sir F. Scott, in command of the Ashantee Expedition, has made an important statement:4 At a "palaver," or formal interview, with the King of Akim-......

Mr. Cleveland Has Appointed His Commission To Enquire...

Venezuela boundary question. The Commissioners are Mr. Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court, Mr. R. N. Alvey, " Chief Justice " of the district of Colombia (Washington), Mr.......