We Publish Elsewhere An Account Of Lord Dufferin's Pro-...
in the case of the Ministers accused of accepting pecu- niary aid in their elections from Sir Hugh Allan, in consideration of a contract to be granted him. The papers completely......
The Bank On Friday Raised Its Rate Of Discount To
9' per cent., and ten is being paid in open market. It is believed that the rapid failures going on in America will lead to considerable drafts from this country, and that the......
Lord Grey On Friday Published A Letter In The Times
on the Ashantee war which, after the feeble rubbish talked by some of our statesmen and by the Times itself on this question, is like a refreshing breeze. He holds that England......
Some Importance Seems To Be Attached To The Seizure Of
the blockade-runner Virgiaius six miles from Jamaica by the Spanish gunboat Tornado. The Virginias had 165 passengers on board, *chiefly insurgents, among them a son of......
Canon Heurtley Has Been Making Rather A Goose Of Himself.
It seems that at the late jubilee dinner of the Union Debating Society at Oxford, Archbishop Manning, though only a Roman Catholic Archbishop, was courteously given precedence......
The Papers Are Full Of Denunciations Of The Police, For
violence and false swearing in repeated eases. We cannot analyse them in these paragraphs without unfairness, as the conduct of the men needs too minute analysis ; but it is......
The Emperor Of Austria Opened His Reichsrath In Person On
fith November, and made a speech admitting the excellence of the new method of direct popular representation, promising a great many commercial reforms, affirming that economy......
M. - Lagne Has Presented His Budget For 1874 To The
Assembly. It is a quiet and reasonable document, but showslhat the amount of expenditure for interest and for temporary payments to the Bank will exceed 124,000,000, and that in......
We Are Glad To See That The Postmaster-general Is Said
to be again in official harness, and that as yet at least the rumour of his resignation has not been verified. Mr. Mon.sell has made a good Postmaster-General. He has given us......
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