The Detailed News From Jamaica, For Which We Had To
depend on Mr. Renter's express last week, confirms in general the view we then took. The evidence as to the flogging with cats made of " piano-wire" was explicit, because not......
The House Of Commons Has Plucked Up Courage To Deal
with the Gas Companies. On Tuesday Mr. Crawford moved the second reading of his Bill to enable the Corporation to supply the City with gas, alleging that under the monopoly the......
The Church-rate Abolition Debate On Wednesday, Introduced...
member for Bury St. Edmunds, and prolonged in the usual tone by Mr. Walpole and Mr. Ducane, suddenly assumed a real interest from Mr. Gladstone's speech proposing a compromise,......
Mr. Gregory Brought On A Debate On Maritime Law Yesterday
week, by a motion to exempt private property except contraband of war, whether in neutral or enemy's ships, from capture on the high seas,—but not calling in question the value......
The French Government Has, It Appears, Given Way In The
matter of the Extradition Act, which is to be continued. Its abolition was evidently unpopular in the Chamber, there was no chance of material change in England—even with Lord......
No Returns Of The Cattle Plague Were Published On Friday,
but Mr. Hunt's Bill, sadly shorn of its proportions, was passed on Thursday. A great deal of discussion occurred on an amendment forbidding the Privy Council to stop......
A Curious Old Scandal Has Turned Up Once More In
the Court of Probate. Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, fourth brother of George IIL, was privately married before the Royal Marriage Act to Olive Wilmot, daughter of......
Mr. Disraeli Agreed To The Second Reading Of The New
Oaths Bill on Thursday night, but insisted that the oath should be to the dynasty, not only the monarch, that it should recognize the Act of Settlement which limits the throne......
The Investigations Of The Commission Seem To Have Been Very
ably conducted by Mr. Gurney and Mr. Mettle. The Commis- The investigations of the Commission seem to have been very ably conducted by Mr. Gurney and Mr. Mettle. The Commis-......
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