Lord Cairns Delivered, Last Wednesday, In The Presence Of...
Archbishop of Canterbury, the judgment of the Privy Council on the appeal in the Jenkins case. He decided that Mr. Jenkins had a right to Communion, and that nothing which he......
Mr. Grant Duff Made A Remarkable Speech On Education Last
week at the City of London College for young men. He said that if England's commercial position was to improve, and more and more of her sons to devote themselves to commerce,......
Lord Carnarvon Made A Statement On Thursday Explaining...
as to the exchange of the Gambia for the French settle- ments on the Gold Coast, an exchange discussed by successive Governments. They seem to us to amount to this :—If......
Mr. Gladstone Was Admitted On Wednesday To The Freedom Of
the Turners' Company, one of the oldest and poorest Guilds in the City of London. He made an amusing speech, alluding to his own acquaintance with the use of the axe which the......
The Government Gets On Very Slowly With Its County Work.
Mr. Sclater-Booth on Friday week introduced a Bill to secure uniformity of assessment, by associating the Government Surveyor of Taxes with the local assessing authority.......
The Royal Commission Appointed By The Government To Jar...
the international law in relation to fugitive slaves re- ceived on board Government vessels is an unusually imposing one. It is to consist of the Duke of Somerset, Sir Alexander......
A Crisis Appears To Be Approaching In The Spanish Civil
war. General Martinez Campos has succeeded in getting between the Carlista and France, and if Don Carlos loses a battle near Vera, his escape may be matter of difficulty.......
• Mr. Bereaford Hope Did Not Get Much Support For
his "Increase of the Episcopate" Bill, of which he moved the second reading on Wednesday. Candid friends in all parts of the House assured him it would not do. Mr. Henley......
A Great Meeting At Exeter Hall Was Held On Monday,
Professor Fawcett in the chair, to consider the action of the Government in relation to their Fugitive-Slave Circulars, and to condemn it. Mr. Fawcett vehemently protested that......
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