In The Committee On The Criminal Law Amendment Bill,...

week, Mr. H. Fowler's amendment, permitting the Judge to add a flogging to the imprisonment to be inflicted on the wretches who abuse girls under thirteen years of age, was lost......

The Chancellor Of The Exchequer, In Giving A General Account

of Sir H. Drummond Wolff's mission, on Wednesday, insisted on two points,—(1), That the Government fully recognise that in the affairs of Egypt they must proceed in concert with......

Mr. Picton Was, However, Successful In Adding A Clause To

the Bill, substituting a whipping for imprisonment in the case of offenders under sixteen years of age, and permitting the Court to send them to a reformatory school after the......

The Three Per Cent. Egyptian Loan Of 29,000,000 Has Been

brought out at 944. A portion was offered in Germany and a portion in France; but immediately on its being brought out here the price went up to 3 premium. This was made a......

On Wednesday A Deputation From The Aborigines Protection...

South African Committee, and other bodies, was introduced to the Colonial Secretary, Colonel Stanley, by Mr. Fonder, and urged upon him the necessity of heartily support- ing......

The Age Under Which It Should Be A Felony To

commit offences of the kind dealt with by the Bill on girls, was raised to 13, and the age under which it shall be a misdemeanour, was raised from 13 to 16, a letter from Mr.......

A Curious Lunacy Case—neave V. Hatherley—was Finished...

a very unsatisfactory way. Miss Neave, the lady who had been six weeks confined in a lunatic asylum on certificates one of which had been signed by Mr. Hatherley, the family......

The Irish Master Of The Rolls Has Granted The Munster

Bank's request that, on the giving of adequate security, its affairs should be wound-up by voluntary liquidation, the names mentioned as liqnidators being three directors,—Mr.......

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