The Local Taxes Collected Throughout Great Britain,...
which of course are paid ultimately by the consumers of imported articles, amount to 16,617,000/. Taking the imperial taxation at 68,000,0001., we have a burden in round numbers......
Mr. Guinness, The Porter Brewer Of Dublin, Has Done A
princely thing. St. Patrick's Cathedral, the great Protestant Church of Ireland, has been for many yearsin a ruinous, and indeed dangerous condition. The very floor had risen,......
On Tuesday Sir John Pakington's Motion For A Committee To
consider the advisability of putting the Board of Education under a single responsible Minister in the Commons, and of extending the benefits of the Board so reorganized to the......
Mr. Cardwell On Friday Introduced A Most Important...
proposes to permit any colony which desires it to create and man a fleet, or even if necessary to combine with other colonies for that purpose. The plan adopted is to allow each......
A. Curious History Has Been Published By The Star Of
the pro- ceedings as to the clerkships held by Mr. Leonard Edmunds in the Patent Office and the House of Lords. He has been seventeen years Reading Clerk and Clerk of Private......
Mr. Justice Montague Smith On Thursday Lost A Chance At
Leicester of remedying a great abuse. Fanny Milnes, servant to the postmistress of M thou Mowbray, was charged with stealing four letters. She had not stolen them, but had......
A Private Telegram Was Received In London On Tuesday From
Kurrachee bringing news only eight hours old. The commu- nication between London and Calcutta is therefore complete, and as soon as the Turkish ereploya can be a little better......
Spain Is In A Fit Of Loyalty Because The Queen
has offered to sur- render the Royal property, valued at six millions sterling, to the nation. The gift at first sight looks a regal one, but Queen Isabella is Bourbon, and a......
The London Committee For Conducting The Local...
University of Cambridge have expressed their hearty approval of the plan for testing by its means the education of girls as well as boys. They have resolved "That this Committee......
It Is Affirmed In Calcutta Correspondence Of The 23rd Of
January that the local Government intend to propose to Sir Charles Wood a loan of 10,000,000/. sterling. Debts have been paid off, it is said, too rapidly, and the "balances"......
The Austrian Government Seems Unable To Treat Its...
the Prussian fashion. The Lower Chamber demands reductions, and the Government, after a great many attempts to obtain better terms, has at last consente I to a reduction of two......
The Quarrel Between Spain And Peru Has Been Settled By
the Republic agreeing to pay the kingdom 4,000,000/. sterling, which amount will be raised by a further mortgage upon the Guano Islands. It is said that the event, which, though......
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