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  2. CONTINENTAL GOSSIP.

    The very stinted hospitalities of the Elysee have ended for this season, with the last (only the second) ball of last. Thursday evening. The interior of the palace—full of lovely flowers and shrubbery artistically ...

    Article : 4,117 words
  3. NEWS BY THIS STEAMER CHIMBORAZO.

    We have received, per Orient steamer Chimborazo, London papers to the 27th April, seven days later than those brought by the last mail from England, from which the following extracts are taken:— ...

    Article : 301 words
  4. DEATH OF A PRINCE ON A RACECOURSE.

    The sudden death of Prince Batthyany was recently reported by cable. The Pall Mall Gazette gives the following particulars:—"Great consternation was caused at New-market on April 25 by the sudden death of Prince ...

    Article : 224 words
  5. MISCELLANEOUS.

    A correspondent of the Standard complains of the postal arrangements between England and Australia. He recently received two prepaid letters from Sydney, both being very considerably within the weight of ½oz., but upon which he ...

    Article : 555 words
  6. THE POPE ON THE IRISH POLITICAL CLERGY.

    The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian hears from a trustworthy sonrce that "the Pope has decided that in future no Irish priest who has taken any part in any political agitation shall be named to the rank of ...

    Article : 117 words
  7. THE DYNAMITE PROSECUTION.

    The Home News states that the most important evidence taken on April 26 against the dynamite conspirators was that of a druggist's apprentice named Canning, who deposed to Whitehead's going to his employer's shop in Birmingham ...

    Article : 137 words
  8. ORGANISATIONS FOR THE OVERTHROW OF BRITISH RULE.

    There are now (says the Dublin correspondent of the Times) at least three organised bodies working in secret for the overthrow of British rule, and of every influence which supports it; and it is one of the most difficult duties which ...

    Article : 384 words
  9. THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND THE DYNAMITE PARTY.

    The New York Times publishes a despatch from Washington which says that there is good reason to assert that the Administration is unanimous in opinion as to the detestation with which the dynamite fiends should be regarded. ...

    Article : 153 words
  10. THE FREETHINKER PROSECUTION.

    The two men, Foote and Ramsay, who are imprisoned at the Old Bailey on the charge of having published blasphemous libels in the Christmas number of the Freeth[?]ker, were tried in the Queen's Bench Division of the High ...

    Article : 238 words
  11. THE ILLITERACY of the UNITED STATES.

    Some very starlling statements as to the great and growing increase of illiteracy in the American Republic have (says the Pall Mall Gazette) been made by the Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, in a prelude to one of his Monday lectures. The ...

    Article : 1,275 words
  12. THE ANNEXATION OF NEW GUINEA.

    The London correspondent of the Argus sends the following full report of the proceedings in the House of Lords on the 20th April in reference to the annexation of New Guinea:— ...

    Article : 1,593 words
  13. MR. GLADSTONE'S ORATORY.

    Of Mr. Gladstone's great speech on the Affirmation Bill the Pall Mail Gazette of April 27 observes:—"It is natural to say of a great orator on any occasion when he has deeply moved his hearers that he has surpassed himself, and ...

    Article : 346 words
  14. THE PANAMA CANAL.

    We take the following extracts from our recently-received American files:— Boston, April 5.—The Herald says: Captain Appleton, of this city, De Lesseps' American agent, has returned here ...

    Article : 1,077 words
  15. THE SUEZ CANAL.

    A deputation of shipowners and merchants waited on Lord Granville on April 26, urging the necessity either of widening the Suez Canal or constructing an alternative canal parallel to it. Although the English Government has ...

    Article : 225 words
  16. JOSEPH BRADY.

    A London paper states that Joseph Brady, the assassin who was executed in Kilmainham goal, was a member of a somewhat remarkable family. His father and mother are not yet 60 years old, and their children number 25—20 sons ...

    Article : 223 words
  17. THE CAREER OF A FENIAN.

    Arthur Forrester, whose wife and mother-in-law gave evidence in Dublin yesterday in support of the alibi set up for the defence of Michael Fagan, charged with the murder of Mr. Burke in the Phœnix Park, and whose present ...

    Article : 280 words
  18. A TICHBORNE ITEM.

    Mina Jury, a witness in the Tichbourne case, has been sentenced to six months' hand labour for neglecting to periodically report herself to the police as required by the law regulating the conduct of convicts on license. She was ...

    Article : 239 words
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