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... EVERYBODY has long observed the decline of the Government, so that its dissolution at any moment would cause no surprise. The respectable and independent Liberal organs are forecasting its doom. The defeats in the House of Commons last week show that Ministers have lost the confi- dence of their friends. Their followers are luke- warm, or cold, because they know there is a re- action against ...
... Achievement, the celebrated racehorse, and the property of Colonel Pearson, hast just died at Rufford Abbey. THE MONEY MARKET.—The money market during the week has been very easy, and the outer market has been a little under the Bank rate, as usual. But we see no reason to vary the general prediction which we gave lately, that if the German Government persist in taking all, or almost all, ...
... left ^NTiNorLB, April 23.—Prince Frederick Charles V on board an Austrian steamer for Vienna via hijjj a He has accepted an antique sword, presented to f a souvenir of his visit here by the German colony clothe Sultan the Order of the Medjidie of the first boarj -Prince William of Denmark left yesterday on a French steamer, also en route for Vienna ...
... HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack a few nainutes before five o'clock. MISCELLANEOUS. The Duke of CLEVELAND moved the second reading of the Prison Ministers' Bill. Lord ORANMORE and BROWNE moved that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. The Earl of DELAVVAR. supported the Bill. The Earl of CARNARVON said it must be evident to all that the ...
... OYSTER FISHERY.—The large number of 200,000 oysters were taken off the Pembrokeshire sea coast during the past week. The trade promises to be a very remunerative one, and we trust the success achieved by the oyster- dredgers will be the means of attracting the attention of fishermen and capitalists to the deep-sea fishing of the coast generally. It is now almost entirely neglected while a ...
... RELEASE OF THE CLAIMANT. It is said that the Tichborne claimant will probably be released on bail to-day Friday). THE EMPRESS OF GERMANY. It is stated that the Empres3 of Germany will pro- baiilj come to England shortly on a visit to the Queen. WBXFORD ELECTION. CLOSE OF THE POLII.—W. A. Redmond. 321; Walter Redmon, 51; Bacon, none. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CAMBRIAN RAILWAY. John Whittiogton, a ...
... 'RE MAN WITH THE IltON HAND.—At the Police-conrt g? Monday (before Mr. J. C. Fowler), Hugh Pearce, aged a Herculean specimen of the Northumbrian breed, j ^divig six feet five inches and a half in his stocking Vr > was charged with an unprovoked assault on Sergt, I at Troedyrhiw on the evening of Saturday, tke 20th T^&nt. Prisoner lost his left arm in an accident some years &°> and its jilace ...
... PROyi*c- A.WILL.-—'Lord Penzance has pronounced m favour of the will of the late Miss Cordelia Angelica Reed, the owner of the ruinous property which for so many years disfigured the south-west Corner of Stamford-street. The old lady Jeft the bulk of her fortune, amounting to about £100,000, to the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton. ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS EXHIBITS-A meeting of the ...
... FACTORY BILL.—Mr. Mundella has before the House of Commons a Bill for further restricting the hours of labour of children, young persons, and females in certain factories. The Bill is to apply to factories as defined in the Factory Act of 1844, as amended by the Acts of 184G and 1861, and to no other factories, and the Bill is to be construed as one with the Factory Acts of 1850 and 1853. The ...
... THE REVOLT OF NUMEROUS SECTIONS. The International Working Men's Association seems likely to bo crushed by the tyranny of its own rules. During the past week several meetings, composed of dele- gates from the various metropolitan sections, have been held in London to protest against the arbitrary conduct of the General Council. In order to understand tho questions in dispute it must be stated ...
... THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. The Duke of Argyll has addressed a letter to Dr. Mac- kenzie, of Eileanach, Invernesshire, on the subject of education in Scotland. The following is the most im- portant portion of the communication:—You may depend upon it that, however needless it may appear with reference to the practice long established in Scot- land, a Time Table Conscience ...