The Emperor Has Published His Defence, In A Pamphlet Which
has reached us too late for full notice, but which strikes us on first perusal as rather a confession than a justification. While main- taining that he was forced to war by an......
Gambetta Was Perfectly Right In His Vote Of Thanks To
Chateau- dun. It appears from an official German report, analyzed by the Berlin correspondent of the Times, that General Wittich was -opposed there by 4,000 Gardes Mobiles, who......
A Curious Statement Is Made In The Philadelphia Letter Of
the 'Times printed on Thursday as to the cause of Mr. Motley's recall, —a statement which is, of course, quite unsupported, and on the lace of it not very probable, if we are to......
Professor Max Muller Puts Forward An Idea Which He Thinks
will relieve conquest of much of its harshness. He would allow all Alsatians who desire to remain Frenchmen to live in Alsace as Frenchmen do in Berlin ; that is, as foreign......
Somebody Professes To Have Found Out How To Add A
cubit, or, at any rate, some portion of a cubit, to the stature, in spite of the Bible, and has published this remarkable advertisement :— 0 SHORT PERSONS.—Anyone (Male or......
There Are Now Some 130 Or 140 Candidates Of A
very good class in the field for the Metropolitan Education Board, and room for only 49. The tenor of the addresses is, with the rarest possible excep- tion, in favour of......
Sir Henry Storks Has Sustained A Severe Defeat At...
having received 500 less votes than the late Liberal Member, Mr. Gurdon Rebow, and nearly 600 less than his opponent, Mr. Lear- month. The defeat is claimed by the Conservatives......
A Letter To The Allgemeine Zeitung Gives A Curious...
of the popular resistance to annexation which is likely to be ex- perienced in Lorraine and Alsace. A police commissioner, it says, who has 18 or 20 villages under his control,......
The Duke Of Aosta Has Agreed To Accept The Spanish
Crown, if -elected by the Cortes. The vote is to be taken on the 6th. According to telegrams, the nomination meets with resistance among the majority, and the cry is raised that......