It Is Hardly A Fortnight Since Sir W. Muir, The
Indian Finance Minister, stated that the Government at home would this year raise a loan of £2,700,000. Nevertheless, the Government here has invited tenders for a loan of......
Sir H. Wolff, On Tuesday, Took Advantage Of A Vote
in Supply to bring up the question of the Suez Canal once more. He objected to certain arrangements said to have been made between Colonel Stokes and M. de Lesseps, and wanted......
An American Engineer Of Eminence, Mr. Spalding, Has Sub-...
to the Geographical Commission of Russia a remarkable report upon the Caspian and Black Seas. Mr. Spalding maintains that the Caspian is drying up, and will slowly become a......
A Telegram From Berlin In The Times States That Turkish
despatches have been published in Rome showing that in 1870 Count Andrassy expected war between Austria and Russia on the Eastern question, and told Khalil Bey that if war broke......
Lord Lytton, The New Vice-roy-and-emperor Of India, As,...
he must shortly be called, took the oaths in Calcutta on the 12th of April, and made a speech,—which is an innovation. He said that he had " become the inheritor of a great......
The Debate Was Not A Good One. Mr. Walpole Was
singularly feeble in his reply to Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, and elaborately missed the points at issue, and Sir R. Anstruther was not very fair in his attack on the same......
The Debate On The Sinking Of The ' Mistletoe' By
the ' Alberta' came off on Monday night, Mr. Anderson making an injudicious and too violent speech on behalf of the motion he submitted, which practically came to this, that as......
The Trial (before Baron Pollock) Of The Captain Of The
' Franconia' for manslaughter, for first running down on Feb- ruary 17 last the Strathclyde' by unskilful seamanship, and then abandoning her to her fate, and making no adequate......
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