... any executive Government protect itself against schemes of extension and of branch lines, or when questions arose on the resettlement of a company’s ailaira and the marshalling of the claims of its several creditors, preferential or otherwise? The objec- ...

... closer tho ties which unite the allies. France, England, and Austria might, for this purposo, agree upon a diplomatic act to which they might give the form of a convention or a protocol. They would declare that they unite their efforts to place ...

... closest intercours3 with the statesmen to whom the re-settlement of Europe was committed. Although not himself a member of the Congress, he was a witness to tho difficulties which that re-settlement encountered. He saw the greeds and jealousies of the ...

... presence. of sends a their invaders, amd that during the interval has elap.ed sines the signatere of the treaty more in the resettle- tnd oom numerous and more difficult ment of his reirgangement have us.with | Placed before the Sultan of Turkey than probably ...

... Dudley, the consul of the United States at Liverpool, relating to thepreparaiionfor the immediate departure of the steam vessel fitting out at that place for the purpose of carrying on war against the government and people of the United Sti-tep, begging your ...

... oppose, a -1 the* have declared they will do, the pa>sage of Austrian and Prussian troops through Holsteiii to Schlwwig, a civil war between the German states s ems quite M probable as a war with Denmark. The Austrian troops destined for Schleswig will ...

... India in March, 1869, to consent to fresh boundaries so recently as 1873. Now, boundaries settled so receutly, or rather re-settled so recently, muot have been chosen with great deliberation and with a view to the defence of the frontier, and I believe ...

... ly of not less than 50/. ; and every such nominee shall upou his appointment sign adeclaration that he is a member of the United Church of England and Ireland ; and all vacancies which shall from time to time occur in the number of suoh trustees, from ...

... India, and is not inconsistent with the optimistic account of their armies which Colonel Malleson lately read before the Royal United Service Institution, but it calls atten- tion most opportunely to the remoter significance of the growing strength, especially ...

... minutes past Three o'clock, Jlr. ?? iv the Chair, and proceeded to consider excesses in the Civil fcervlce Estimates. On the Vote for 2071. for excesses in certain Civil Service Grants, Mr. BUCHANAN drew attention to the excess in respect of Police-court charges ...

... of about 2000;. per anunin, aud he estimated his amend lumens at about 1500/. He was informed that in 1878 tiler° was a resettlement of the family estates. In 1883 he joined with his father in rinsing 100,000/. and 13,090/. of the amoulit was applied tie; ...

... there was no united Empire until loJJ and the Act of Union (hear, htar, and laughter). sir 11. JAME3. — I ?aid United Kingdom. Mr. CAMPBKLL-BANNEUMAN.— No; his right bon. friend said United Empire (cheers). But if what be meant was United Kingdom, then ...