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  2. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL PER MALTA.

    THE R M. S. Malta, Captain Skottowe, arrived in Port Jackson at 2.30 a.m. yesterday. We have received our usual English, and foreign despatches to 8th October. ...

    Article : 3,252 words
  3. THE EUROPEAN INSURANCE COMPANY.

    Applications was made on Saturday 2nd, October, to ViceChancellor James on the part of Mr. Crawford, who has petitioned for the winding up of the European Insurance Company, for an order to inspect the books of the company, ...

    Article : 186 words
  4. THE ALABAMA QUESTION.

    The New York Times says it is no longer a State secret that Mr. Motley has been instructed to notify to Lord Cla[?]ndon that whenever it is thought best to renew negotiations for a settelment of the Alabama claims, it will ...

    Article : 142 words
  5. THE AUSTRALIAN MEAT QUESTION.

    On Wednesday, October 6; an interesting meeting was held at the Ecmonien Institute, the majority of the gathering being of the artisan class, with the object of practically testing the Australian presetved most for which ...

    Article : 524 words
  6. THE BYRON CONTROVERSY.

    The Beecher Stowe-Byron controversy continues, but if the nuth must be spoken, it begins to be not a late tiresome. No one has a word to say for Mrs. Stowe. Her interference—especially on the ground she allege—was a ...

    Article : 157 words
  7. DR. CUMMING AND THE POPE.

    The Rev. Dr. Cumming has addressed a reply, through Dr. Manning, to the recent letter from the Vaticon, refusing him permission to take part in the discussion of the [?]cumenical Council. The rev. doctor says:—"I cannot ...

    Article : 463 words
  8. THE INIERNATIONAL BOAT RACE.

    It seems a pity that the Harvard men do not take their defeat in good part, but should attempt to threw an imputation of bad faith upon their gallant conquerors. No one will believe the Oxford men agreed that neither crew should ...

    Article : 235 words
  9. DREADFUL TRAGEDY AT WOOD GREEN.

    On Monday evening, a double murder of a pecuilarly horrible and a[?]cious kind was committed at Wood Green, Tottenham. The murderer is a man named Hinson, and one of his victims is a woman named Maris Death, who lived ...

    Article : 406 words
  10. SAFETY OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.

    Mr. Leo, a missionary, who has just arrived in England from Zanzibar, which place he felt in June last, states, on the authority of an intelligent and apparently trustworthy Arab, that Dr. Livingstone was about 14 months since at ...

    Article : 87 words
  11. THE ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.

    The contested election of Lord Mayor of London for the ensuing year was virtually decided, on Friday week, by the retirement of one of the three candidates; though, as a matter of form, the poll was not finally closed until the ...

    Article : 119 words
  12. FATHER HYACINTHE.

    One of the Paris papers gives some interesting particulars respecting the first appearance of Father Hyacinthe. It appears that the free-thinking tendencies of the ecclesiastic do not date from yesterday. It was in the year 1862 ...

    Article : 413 words
  13. THE POLYNESIAN LABOUR QUESTION.

    A despatch of Earl Granville to the Governor of Queensland on the subject of the immigration of the Polynesian Islanders has been published. It has recently been made only too apparent that this immigration was carried on upon ...

    Article : 124 words
  14. ENGLISH PEDESTRIANS FOR AUSTRALIA.

    Mr. Shoosmith has found leading pedestrians more accessible than the south-country cricketers to the alluring influences of Australian gold, and has made an engagement with Bird, Hewitt, and George Topley. They leit London ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. IRELAND.

    The trial of the man Barrett, for shooting at Captain Lambert, near Athenry, on the 12th of July, has ended very unsatisfactorily. The jury were not able to agree, and the man will have to be tried again. A large sum of ...

    Article : 524 words
  16. THE CECUMENICAL COUNCIL.

    Ricciardi, the Italian Deputy, has issued a manifesto to the liberal thinkers of all nations, in which he indicates the injury which will result to civilisation from the assembling of the cecumenical Council. He summons them to a ...

    Article : 56 words
  17. CRICKETING TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA.

    The bitch between English cricketers and the agent employed to engage them for a trip to Australia is likely to be adjusted, and the following professionals will form the "eleven"—J. C. Shaw, A. Shaw, J. Oscroft, F. Silcock. ...

    Article : 60 words
  18. ARREST OF LORD CHARLES GEORGE ARCHIBALD HAMILTON.

    An arrest by Sheriff a officers, under circumstances exciting a considerable amount of merriment at the West-end, took place on Wednesday, 6th October, about noon. For some time past Lord Charles George Archibald Hamilton, ...

    Article : 288 words
  19. DESTRUCTION OF VESSELS AT BORDEAUX.

    The explosion of petroleum in a lighter at Bordeaux, on the 28th of September, enused the destruction of nearly twenty ships that were lying at the wharfs. The lighter was drifted by the flood tide among the shipping, and, ...

    Article : 108 words
  20. OPENING OF BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE AND HOLBORN VIADUCT.

    Her Majesty has been pleased to intimate to the Lord Mayor, through Mr. Gladstone, that if her health permit, she will, in complance with the wishes of the citizens, preside at the opening of both Blackfriaus Bridge and the ...

    Article : 115 words
  21. FATHER HYACINTHE'S LETTER.

    The following remarkable and important letter, addressed by Father Hyacinthe to the generate of the Barefooted Carmeliteo at Rome, was published in the Temps. It is dated Paris, Passy, September 20, 1869:— ...

    Article : 1,102 words
  22. SEVEN PERSONS BURNT TO DEATH.

    A fire of comparatively small magnitude in itself, but attended with the most disastrous consequences to life, occurred on Friday morning, October 1, at Bayswater. The scene of this disaster was at the Moscow Road, a small ...

    Article : 833 words
  23. PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND.

    The twenty-first annual report of the Poor-law Board, which has been issued, contains some interesting particulars of the amount of pauperism at present existing in this country. In 1865-6 the expenditure for the relief of the ...

    Article : 398 words
  24. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN CHINA.

    We gather the following respecting the movements of the Duke of Edinburgh from the China papers to hand this morning. The Adventure, Captain Raby, R.N., arrived at Chefoo on the 29th September, with Lady Keppel, and part ...

    Article : 310 words
  25. THE IRISH LAND QUESTION.

    The Irish land question, at first eight much more difficult of solution than that of the Irish Church, is having much light thrown upon it by the admirable letters of the Times Commissioner. It had long been customary to ...

    Article : 474 words
  26. FOREIGN NEWS.

    Paris politicans were taken by surprise on Sunday [?] appearance of a decree in the Journal Official conv[?] the Chambers for the 29th of next month, and soon [?] lations were afloat as to this reason of the proceeding. [?] ...

    Article : 1,208 words
  27. THE EPISCOPALIAN BISHOPS.

    The Bishop of Oxford will be transferred to the see of Winchester; the Rev. J. F. Mackarness, Rector of Honiton, is to be Bishop of Oxford; Dr. Temple, Head Master of Rugby School, Bishop of Exeter; the Hon. and ...

    Article : 78 words
  28. SUICIDE OF LORD JUSTICE CLERK PATTON.

    A painful sensation has been created by the sudden disappearance of Lord-Justice Clerk Patton. He was staying at Glenalmond, his country seat in Scotland, and went out for a walk on the 20th of September. From that hour he ...

    Article : 323 words
  29. DR. MANNING ON THE PAPAL SYLLABUS.

    Archibshop Manning delivered a discourse on the Pope's Syllabus, at the pro-cathedral in Kensington. He expressed his belief that if the Pope had confined himself in the Syllabus simply to faith and morality in the ordinary ...

    Article : 484 words
  30. MASSACRE OF SEVEN PERSONS NEAR PARIS.

    Near Paris a more horrible tragedy has been enacted,— a whole family, mother and fix children, have been murdered in the most cold-blooded and deliberate manner. De Quincey would have quoted this as a striking instance of ...

    Article : 525 words
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