At A Congratulatory Dinner Given To The Chancellor Of The
Exchequer at Barnstaple on Wednesday, on occasion of his assuming the lead of the Conservative party in the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote made a lively and good-......
After-dinner Speeches Must Of Course Be Cheery, And The...
element in Sir Stafford .Northcote's was its comparison of the duties of a leader of the House of Commons to the duties of a master of fox-hounds. "In the first place, we are......
The Augsburg Gazette Publishes Three Letters Which Show...
1870 the Panslavonic Committee at St. Petersburg expected assistance in their plans from the Khedive. M. Nemtchinow, a Russian resident in Alexandria, and M. Lex, the Russian......
We Publish Elsewhere A Letter From A Well-informed Corre-...
who bluntly denies that the Russian Government broke faith with the British Foreign Office upon the sub- ject of Khiva. Whether or not the Emperor promised not to annex the......
Mr. Goschen Does Not Seem To Have Succeeded Quite So
well with the Khedive's private or Daira debt as with the Egyptian Bonds. He could not, he said, in a very frank speech delivered to the Daira bondholders on Tuesday, be quite......
The Contest For The American Presidency Makes No...
it appears that the Houses consider they have a right to regulate by statute the counting of the votes. A Bill for this object, direct- ing the Supreme Court to count them, has......
Mr. Roebuck, In Relation To This Eastern Question, Is On
the side of Lord Beaconsfield, though Lord Beaconsfield appears in this case to be not so much "on the side of the angels" as on the side of the demons. At Fishmongers' Hall on......
The American House Of Representatives Has Passed, By An...
majority-167 to 53—a Bill making silver legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where payment in gold is fixed by law. It is still doubtful if the Senate will......
The So-called " Conference " On The Eastern Question,—the...
was certainly a mistake, for the meeting was a demon- stration, and not consultative at. all,—at St. James's Hall yesterday week was a very powerful one, and diffused great......
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