23 FEBRUARY 1878, page 1

Notwithstanding All These Pacific Auguries, The Turkish...

a certain sseva indignatio against the mere idea of the Conference, and suggest that all sorts of difficulties will arise to prevent its meeting. Turkey will never consent to......

News Of The Week.

T HE Conclave has done its work quickly and well. Fifty- nine Cardinals out of sixty-two had arrived in the Vatican when on Monday they were walled np, and on Tuesday morning......

Lord Beaconsfield Himself Apparently Kept His Mouth As...

bridle, when he proposed, on Thursday, the second reading of the Bills providing a credit of six millions for the Naval and Military Services. The only suppressed threat he......

Neither The Correspondents Of The London Journals Nor...

agents do reporting work well. Considerable trouble was taken to report the gist of Prince Bismarck's speeches on Tuesday on the Eastern Question, but much of the trouble was......

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The Prospect Grows Decidedly More Peaceful. On Thursday...

Derby explained that the Russians had agreed not to occupy Gallipoli or the lines of Bulair, if England, on her part, agreed not to disembark English troops on either the......

Lord Derby Also Agreed With Prince Bismarck In Expecting An

early meeting of the Conference at Baden-Baden, though he added " that a rumour to which I attach a certain weight leads me to think that one of the Governments concerned may......

There Is A Curious Hope Among Some Catholics About Leo

XIII. According to the " prophecy of St. Malachi," be- lieved by Catholics to be a very ancient prediction, and cer- tainly in print five or six generations ago, the symbol or......