General Menabrea Has Reconstituted His Ministry, That Is,...
introduced three new men, Admiral Ribotti, Minister of Marine, Deputy de Filippo, of Justice, and Count Cantelli, of Public Works. They may be excellent persons, but they are......
Wheat Went Up Again In Mark Lane On Monday From
three to four shillings a quarter ; the reports from France, East Prussia, and Northern Russia are most discouraging, and there is, we fear, little hope for months to come of......
A New And Remarkable Proof Of The Power Of The
Rotnish Church over her servants has just been given at Rome. Cardinal Andrea, it is well known, has for some time past been afflicted with Italian and Liberal opinions, has......
Prussia Is Almost Aghast. The King Looks Serious, Count Von
Bismarck drops his voice, and special correspondents hardly dare to record the news. It is, nevertheless, only too sadly true that there will be a deficit of 300,000/. in this......
The Investigating Committee Of The Caledonian Railway...
report, and it seems to please the investing public, for the shares have slightly advanced. It certainly will not please anybody outside that particularly stupid class, for it......
We Do Not Object, If Her Majesty So Pleases, To
the foundation of an "Order of Merit and Old Age," but we do object very strongly to calling its members Field-Marshals. Four officers were advanced to that rank on Tuesday, Sir......
We Suppose Lord Malmesbury Has Ability Of Some Kind Or
he would not have been Foreign Secretary, but it is never apparent in his speeches. He has been addressing the farmers in the Vale of Avon on the House of Lords, and said that......
News Of The Week.
R EALLY we English are the most abjectly incompetent people in the world I Amidst the terrible distress in the East End there are a score or two score charitable agencies at......
Mr. Forster Made A Very Able Speech On Education At
St. James's Hall on Tuesday night. He declared himself for State interference to enact "ignorance laws" against the st:uvation of the mind, analogous to our "poor laws" against......
