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  2. SIGNATURE OF THE TREAIY OF P[?]

    Versailles, February 23.—A treaty of peace, [?] the main conditions demanded by the Germans, [?] signed by M. Thiers and Count Bismark. T[?] arrangements will be settled to-morrow. ...

    Article : 190 words
  3. RUSSIA.

    The Russian Invalid publishes an article on the progress made by the Russian army in the year 1870. The effective force was, it says, increased in that year from 726,000 to 744,000, and special attention was paid to the military ...

    Article : 331 words
  4. THE REVICTUALLING OF PARIS.

    Abundance of provisions have poured into Paris. Prices are still high, but are gradually declining. Five goods trains daily from Dieppe carry the ample supplies furnished from the stores of our Government, and by the bounty of ...

    Article : 563 words
  5. THE RITUALISTIC CASE.

    Mr. Voysey has been unsuccessful in his appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from the Court of Arches on the charge of heresy. Their lordships, in giving judgment, remarked that Mr. Voysey's opinions were not ...

    Article : 119 words
  6. A SENSATIONAL BIGAMY CASE.

    It has boen long since New York has known such a scandal as that which has lately transpired. A bigamy, a beautiful bigamy, has been brought to light, in which all the parties were of the highest respectability. A week or ...

    Article : 500 words
  7. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AS AN ADVAN CED ARMY REFORMER.

    The following is a quotation from a speech of the Duke of Cambridge, spoken at the Fish[?]gers' Hall, on the 8th of April, 1870:—"We live in times of great change. Everything around us seems to change. Amongst other ...

    Article : 214 words
  8. SWITZERLAND.

    The Federal Council has addressed a request to the German headquarters that the authorities should assist in arriving at an understanding for the return home of the French troops interned in Switzerland. Count Bismark ...

    Article : 114 words
  9. A PROPHETIC WARNING.

    There is a notable passage in the conclusion of the third of Father Hyacinthe's Notre Dame lectures, delivered in Advent, 1866, which now appears to have been verified but too fearfully:—"But one thing is not impossible—God ...

    Article : 241 words
  10. DESTRUCTION OF GREEK BRIGANDS.

    The following information has been received from her Majesty's Minister at Athens, under date of the 11th instant:—"The Greek Government have received intelligence of the destruction of the brigand bands in ...

    Article : 124 words
  11. AUSTRIA.

    The Wiener Zeitung publishes the text of an autograph letter addressed by the Emperor to Count Hohenwort, the President of the Ministry, convoking the Reichsrath, for, February 20. ...

    Article : 109 words
  12. MISCELLANEOUS.

    The Rev. Thomas Binney.—This eminent Nonconformist divine preached his farewell sermon on January 29, at the King s Weigh House Chapel, on retiring from his ministry there of Borne forty years. The chapel was ...

    Article : 949 words
  13. GREECE.

    A bill has been submitted to the Chamber of Deputies, granting £10,000 to Mrs. Lloyd for the murder of her husband, by brigands, at Marathon, last year. The Minister of Foreign Affairs having given Mr. ...

    Article : 109 words
  14. THE NEW EDUCATION CODE.

    A minute of the Committee of Council on Education approving of time tables has been issued to-day. At the Council on the 7th instant the Llemcntary Education Act (1870), and the following articles of the New Code (1871), ...

    Article : 540 words
  15. IRELAND.

    On February 1, a meeting was held in Dublin in favour of the release, without the condition of expatriation, of such of the Irish political prisoners as are still in prison. The proceedings were of an orderly character. Resolutions were ...

    Article : 912 words
  16. THE DISTRESS IN THE FRENCH VILLAGES.

    Baron de Bussiere writes from Versailles to Mr. Bullock I must send you some account of the use I have made of the sum of 600 fronts, which you so kindly entrusted to me for the benefit of the victims of the war. I was enabled to ...

    Article : 1,109 words
  17. FEARFUL EXPLOSION ON BOARD A STEAMER—LOSS OF 87 LIVES.

    Another terrible catastrophe has occurred on the Mississippi by the blowing up of a large saloon river steamer and the loss of eighty-seven lives, together with a large number of people injured. The steamer W. R. Arthur, bound from ...

    Article : 595 words
  18. ROUMANIA.

    The Roumanian Chamber has adopted a congratulatory address to the Italian Parliament in reference to the contemplated transfer of the capital to Rome. The Government also has laid before the Chamber a bill for the ...

    Article : 182 words
  19. AMERICA.

    Mrs. President Grant had a reception at the White House, Washington, on January 10, which was attended by a brilliant and fashionable company. A detailed description of the various dresses and head ornamenta worn by ...

    Article : 429 words
  20. THE REVISION OF THE BIBLE.

    The question of the Revision of the Authorised Bible must have interest wherever tho English language is spoken. We are sorry to hove a disagreeable incident to record in reference to the work undertaken by a committee ...

    Article : 277 words
  21. THEATRICAL AND OPERATIC.

    Cary Nelson is at Manchester, Sara Nelson at Sheffield, and Julia Mathews has just loft Covont Garden. Lucy Escott, with Squires and Farquharson (buffo), contemplate a tour to California via the States. The Cornhill for ...

    Article : 394 words
  22. CANADA.

    The Dominion Parliament was opened on the 16th February, at Toronto. The Governor-General congratulated the House upon the auspicious circumstances of the country; and spoke in high terms of the gallant manner ...

    Article : 226 words
  23. DREADFUL TRAGEDY AT NAPLES.

    A correspondent at Florence sends particulars of a terrible tragedy which has just occurred in Naples:—"On January 20, Prince Toora, a Neapolitan nobleman, was returning home from a banquet late at night in the ...

    Article : 471 words
  24. THE LATEST FASHIONS.

    The continued inclemency of the weather has caused the almost universal adoption of velvet, cloth, velveteens, and fur. Lace was never more lavishly used than at the present moment, on all the silken materials; and Cluny after ...

    Article : 802 words
  25. FOREIGN.

    His Majesty has given 25,000f. to be distributed among the victims of the inundation in the provinces of Logrono,,, Navarre, and Saragossa. A Ministerial circular to the Spanish diplomatic agents ...

    Article : 174 words
  26. THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

    THE following notifications appear in yesterday's Government Gazette:- APPOINTMENT.—Electric Telegraph Department—Mr. W. M. Scott to be Station Master at Casino. ...

    Article : 278 words
  27. OBITUARY.

    Mr. Edward Archer Wilde, solicitor, of College Hill, City, died on February 1. He was the father of Lord Penzance, judge of the Probate and Divorce Courts, and brother of the late Lord Truro, who was Lord Chancellor ...

    Article : 827 words
  28. PORTUGAL.

    A Ministerial crisis has occurred, in consequence of the recent appointment of the Bishop of Algarve as Patriarch. Serioujs differences of opinion have arisen between the Marquis d'Avila and hin collengues. The Marquis has been ...

    Article : 61 words
  29. BOURKI'S ARMY.

    The special correspondent of the Daily News, writing from Basle, February 4, thus describe the condition of the French prisoners in Switserland:—I had an oppoutunity of seeing what these soldiers of the once redoubtable ...

    Article : 544 words
  30. ITALY.

    The Italian Senate, after three days' diheussion, has voted that the transfer of the capital, as proposed bu the Minister, and determined on by the Lower House, shall be made on the 30th of June. It has declared itself satisfied ...

    Article : 187 words
  31. THE BRITISH-AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

    The general meeting of shareholders in this company was held on February 8, under the presidency of the Right Hon. W. N. Massey. The report of the directors was taken as read, and unanimously adopted. The chairman ...

    Article : 223 words
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