... THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1863. the Hou-e Commons yesterday, Mr Dillwyn moved that the order of the day for the Second reading of the Endowed Schools' Bill be discharged, with a view to the bill being withdrawn. After some discussion, the motion was •greed to. Sir J. Hay moved the second reading the Naval Prize Money, &c., Bill. Lord j C. Paget hoped, as the Government intended introduce ...

... MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1863. The Emperor Napoleon has been congratulated upon the taking of Puebla by the King and ' Queen of Spain and the Queen of Holland. The departure of reinforcements for Mexico has ' been deferred until General Forey's account of ; the capture of Puebla has been received. The Mexican maritime provinces of Yucatan and ! Tobascz, it is reported, have pronounced in j favour of ...

... SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1868. In the House Lords last night an interesting discussion took plaoe regarding the rupture of our relations with Brazil. The question was introduced by the Karl of Maucksburt lengthened addres*, severely condemning the course taken the Government our recent disputes with that of Brazil, and defending the latter. Karl Rcsbeli made eloquent and spirited reply in defence ...

... One of the things we shall have to take iuto consideration by and bye, and probably before very long, this, that two new military powers have been added to the world. Whatever may be the result of the contest in America, that all but certain. If, indeed, the Federals were to succeed in coorcing the Confederates back into the Union, or if by any other means the severed portions of the old ...

... WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1868. The House Lords sat twenty minutes last night. Three bills were advanced stage, after 1 which the House adjourned. ■ Yesterday's early sitting of the House of Com: mons was occupied with the committee on the Fishoiies (Ireland) Bill. the evening sitting, Lord Paget, in answer to Mr Hadfield, narrated the circumstances connected with the late court-martial at ...

... The litigations connected with what ia known the Stipend Case have long ago passed into the stage which is known as chronic, and when that occurs, interest is seldom very vivid The news of the late great battlea of the American war are not looked for with much eagerness, nor read with such intense attention, as were displayed with respect Bull's Ran. At Fredeiicksburg and Murfreeeboro, and ...