25 DECEMBER 1880, page 1

Nothing Pleasant Is Reported This Week From Ireland....

been no more agrarian murders, for the Mullen murder is clearly a case of private vengeance ; but the sway of the League is spreading, and the terror of all connected with land,......

If The Standard's Correspondents May Be Trusted, The Pro-...

to request Greece and Turkey to submit their difference to an International Council of Arbitration has been accepted by Germany, Austria, France, and England. It will also, it......

The Lord-lieutenant Of Ireland Prohibited By Proclamation...

was to have been held at Cullohill, near Dar- row, in Queen's County, last Sunday, on the ground that "the said meeting, or assemblage, has been called together for the sake of......

A Letter On The Ritualist Troubles, Written By The Bishop

of Manchester to the Rev. John Bone, Vicar of St. Thomas's, Lancaster, and published in last Tuesday's Times, hardly shows Dr. Fraser's usual grasp of the difficulties of a......

News Of The Week.

W E regret most deeply to announce the death of "George Eliot "—Mrs. Cross—which occurred on the might of Wednesday, from pericarditis. The death was an- nounced too late for......

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At A Meeting Of The Clergy Of The Rural Deanery

of Westbere, Kent, held last week, the Archbishop of Canterbury expressed his regret that conscientious clergymen should be imprisoned for doing that which they felt it their......