... withdrawing State aid from English education. The draught of a memorial to the Duke of Argyll was adopted. THE UNITED STATES. Independence Day was celebrated in the usual way on Monday throughout the States. The House of Representatives has passed a resolution ...

... —A balloon ascent which took place at Boston, U.S. last Monday, in connection with the festivities on the occasion of Independence Day, had fatal termination, two persons, named Rogers and Fenton, being killed outright and a third seriously injured. The ...

... has been for such a long period “free and independent.” Englishmen, therefore, are quite as ready to hail with delight Independence Day and its attendant festivities as those from “newer England” across the Atlantic. The name of George Washington strikes ...

... Gladstone, Cardwell, Childers. Lowe, Bright, Disraeli, Sir S. Northcote, Sir F. Arrow (the Deputy Master), Ac. American Independence Day fell on Sunday last, and the fact was prominently alluded to by Dean Stanley in his morning sermon at Westminster Abbey ...