Lord Palmerston On Saturday Distributed The Prizes...
judges to exhibitors at the South London Industrial Exhi- bition. The proceedings were of the usual character, Lord Palmerston making a speech which may be summed up in the......
France Has Not Been Slow To Add Her Tribute Of
respect to the one which is coming up from every town in Great Britain. La Presse appeared in mourning, all the papers published warm eulogies on the deceased statesman, and Le......
It Was Expected That The House Of Commons Would Adjourn
on Monday out of respect to the memory of Mr. Cobden, but Government thought the pressure of indispensable business too great. Lord Palmerston, however, rose, and in a somewhat......
At A Meeting Of The Liberal Electors Of Westminster Held
on Thursday Mr. J. S. Mill was accepted as a candidate with enthusiasm, the electors even proposing to pay the expenses of the election. Westminster seems really inclined to......
Europe Has Been Alarmed This Week By Stories Of A
new plague imported from Siberia into St. Petersburg, and thence marching slowly westwards on the cholera route. After reading about eleven different accounts of the pest we are......
We Have Nearly Completed Building Our Cloaca Maxima. The...
of Wales opened another section of the system on Tuesday, and one can hardly help wondering if the spirit of the old Etrurian architect was looking on at this imitation of his......
The Main Items Of Sir Charles Trevelyan's Budget...
Calcutta on 1st April reached England by telegraph on the 6th. It is a most unsatisfactory one. Instead of a surplus of 823,2881., which he had expected, there is a deficit of......
News Of The Week.
AI R. COBDEN, whose illness was not believed to be critical till Saturday night, died in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, from the weakness produced by bronchitis, on Sunday morning,......