The Serrano Cabinet Has Commenced Its Reign With A Bit
of good-fortune. Cartagena has surrendered. On December 10, General Dominguez captured or "conciliated" Fort Atalaya, and the other forts surrendered, Saez, the mad postman, in......
The Members Of The Spanish Government Have Issued A...
in which they state that the Cortes had deposed "the eloquent Tribune, the honoured patriot and eminent patriot who had used his Dictatorship with such judgment, loyalty,......
The Cologne Gazette Has Published This Week A Papal Brief
on the subject of the Conclave to be held on the death of the pre- sent Pope, for the election of his successor, the authenticity of which has been vehemently denied by the......
Mr. Bright Has Written A Very Short Letter On The
Ashantee War, which, however, short as it is, seems to us exceedingly mischievous. In it he expresses his approval of a resolution passed at a meet- ing of the Midland......
President Grant Appears To Be Unlucky In His Chief Justices.
The Chief Justiceship of the United States is vacant, and he at first named for it his Attorney-General, Mr.Williams, a gentleman -whom he had picked up somewhere in Oregon. Mr.......
It Appears From A Telegram Dated 13th Inst., Lisbon, That
Sir - Garnet Wolseley, with his Staff and the Naval Brigade, left Cape Coast Castle on December 27 for the Prah. The first detachment of troops would be landed on New Year's......
Captain C. S. Maunsell, Captain On Half-pay, Who Last Week
struck the Duke of Cambridge in Pall Mall, was on Wednesday committed for trial. His defence was that he had served at the Cape, in India, in China, and in Abyssinia, and had......
Mr. Goldwin Smith Prefers Canada To The Union As A
place for emigration, and for this reason, among others, that his expe- rience convinced him that the dislike among Americans to Eng- land was very strong and deep-rooted.......
Mr. Goldwin Smith On Wednesday Gave An Interesting...
the Congress of working-men at Sheffield upon his own. experiences. He regards the Cornell University, in which he is still Professor, as partially a failure, the reason being......