The French Commission Appointed To Inquire Into The Best...
of improving the communication across the Channel has reported by eight to two in favour of steam ferries large enough to carry the whole train. The Times remonstrates, alleging......
Tweed, The Leader Of The New York Ring, Has At
last been arrested on a charge of felony, has been bailed by Judge Barnard, has broken bail, and has fled, some say to Cuba, Spain having no extradition treaty with the States.......
The French Academy Has Elected The Due D'aumale To A
seat by 27 to 1. The majority was probably the result of political feel- ing, but the Duke's " History of the House of Conde " and his pam- phlets justify the selection. On the......
The French Chamber Is Determined To Make The Old Blunder,
and exclude officials. It has decreed by 472 to 92 that no salaried official except a Minister, an Ambassador, or the Prefect of the Seine can be a Deputy. Why not, if tie......
On Mr. Vernon Harcourt's Speech We Have Commented Else-...
He stood, he said, on an " isthmus of time separating the past from the future," and that was a position which he evidently felt to be one of some advantage for moral effusion.......
A Curious Correspondence Was Pubhseed This Nay Ek Between...
Gratry, one of the bitterest opponents ey Infallib y, who, after a severe illness, has made his submission to "42 decree cf the Council of the Vatican, and Father Hyacinthe, had......
Lord Warwick's Friends Had Much Better Have Left That Sub-
scription for rebuilding the Castle alone. Great Peers cannot take presents of money without loss of dignity, and it is obvious from the correspondence published on Tuesday that......
The Members For Oxford City, Mr. Cardwell And Mr. Vernon
Harcourt, attended the annual festival of the Oxford Druids on New Year's Day, and both made considerable speeches,—mani- festoes, as it were, to their constituents,—after......
M. Catacazy Is Evidently Quite Unaware That Anybody...
Grant can condemn him, and is evidently, too, a very adroit person. At a dinner given to the Grand Duke Alexis at Boston on 9th December, he made a flowery speech in honour of......
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