5 DECEMBER 1874, page 1

News Of The Week.

Tr HE French Assembly commenced its Session on November 30, but the President's Message was not read till Thursday, the .3rd inst. The Marshal tells the Deputies that no,Foreign......

Slavery, As A Legal Institution To Be Enforced By Courts

or police, has been abolished on the Gold Coast. On 3rd November, Governor Strahan called the native Chiefs of the Protectorate together, and after recapitulating the recent......

Another Great Steamer Has Gone Down. The 'la Plata,' 969

tons, left Gravesend on the 26th ult., with 300 miles of telegraph cable on board, intended to renew part of the cable from Lisbon to Brazil. On the 29th she encountered in the......

Bishop Clifford (of Clifton) Also Issued A Pastoral On...

which seems intended to find voice for those loyal Roman Catho- lics who are opposed to the reigning school of the Vatican. He begins by observing on the number of Roman......

The Comte De Chambord Has Desired His Friends Not To

vote for anything that may impede a Restoration, and it is understood that the Right, with part of the Right Centre, will therefore oppose the organisation of the Septennate.......

By A Circular Read In The Roman Catholic Churches On

Sunday evening hurt, Archbishop Manning explained to the faithful of his Church that as both the Immaculate Conception and the In- fallibility of the• Pope had been defined by......

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