Wilkes Booth, The Murderer Of Mr. Lincoln, Left Behind Him,
in the care of his brother, amongst various bonds and samples, a very curious letter in vindication of the act he was meditating. It is a curiously fanatical......
The Emancipation Society Held A Meeting On The Evening Of
this day week to express their abhorrence of the crime and their reverence for the murdered President, at which both Mr. W. E. Foster, MT. for Bradford, and Mr. Stansfeld, M.P.......
In The House Of Lords On Monday Night Lord Houghton
moved the second reading of "The Qualification for Offices Oaths Abolition Bill," a measure, carried every year in the House of Commons and rejected every year by the House of......
Constance Kent Was Committed For Trial At Trowbridge On...
the evidence, with two exceptions, being much the same as that given before the magistrates at the time. The- tWo exceptions were, however, remarkable. The night dress covered......
The First Foreign Speech Made By President Johnson Is...
favourable to this country. He received the Diplomatic Corps on the 20th April, and Sir F. Bruce expressed with undiplomatic cordiality the hearty good wishes of Her Majesty for......
Admiral Fitzroy, The Well-known Meteorologist, Committed...
at his own house, Upper Nor'wood. He had overworked himself of late, found that he was losing his memory, became sleepless, and resorted to opium to obtain ease, which......
The Murder Of The Head Of The State, And Of
such a head of the State, has taken for the time almost all flavour out of the American news, almost as the death of a hero might out of a story. Neverthe- less the occupation......
The Government Had A Little-noticed Defeat On Tuesday...
Jervis, member for Harwich, brought up the grievances of Indian officers of the Line in the shape of a motion for an address to the Crown praying a remedy. The grievances are......
M. Sainte-beuve, The Greatest Of French Critics, Probably...
of living critics, has been made a Senator of the French Empire, but his delicate criticism has not been extended to French politics.......
We Have Reason To Believe That The Rumours Of A
political -arrangement between the Pope and the King of Italy are either unfounded or premature. They were very strenuously denied in the Italian Parliament on the last day of......
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