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  2. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL PER GEELONG.

    THE R. M. S. Geelong, Captain Dundas, arrived in Port Jackson at 11 p.m. on Saturday. We have received our English and Foreign Correspondence and files of papers to the 4th ...

    Article : 3,465 words
  3. MRS. DISRAELI'S ELEVATION TO THE PEERAGE.

    Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer a peerage on Mrs. Disraeli under the title of Viscountess Beaconsfield, of Beaconsfield, in the county of Bucks. It is no secret that in the bestowal of such rewards the ...

    Article : 171 words
  4. THE USE OF EXPLOSIVE PROJECTILES.

    At the conference held at St. Petersburg, on the nonemployment of explosive missiles in war, it was decided that no explosive projectiles weighing less than 400 grammes shall be used. The sitting at which this decision ...

    Article : 114 words
  5. THE AMERICAN CLAIMS.

    There can bo but one feeling in England at the announcement contained in a leading article in the Times of November 10 as to the particulars of the arrangement which has been come to between Lord Stanley and Mr. Reverdy ...

    Article : 359 words
  6. THE DEPARTURE OF THE GALATEA.

    The Galatea, 26, Captain his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, left Plymouth Sound on Monday, November 9, for Madeira, the Cape of Good Hope, East Indies, &c. The following graphic and amusing sketch appears ...

    Article : 624 words
  7. MR. GLADSTONE'S "CHAPTER OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY."

    The Pall Mall Gazette observes:—"Mr. Gladstone has done many characteristic things in the course of his life, but we doubt whether he has over done anything more characteristic than the publication of a 'chapter of ...

    Article : 565 words
  8. THE REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.

    A circular of Senor Sagasta has been published, stating that the Government, while resolved to protect the cause of the revolution, is at the same time equally resolved to maintain the credit of the country and the future liberty ...

    Article : 1,251 words
  9. RESIGNATION OF THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT.

    On Wednesday (December 2) a Cabinet Council was held at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of ...

    Article : 681 words
  10. FENIAN DEMONSTRATIONS.

    Monday, Novombor 23, was the anniversary of the execution of the three Fenians—Allen, Gould, and Larkin, for the murder of sergeant Brett, at Manchester. The previous afternoon, Sunday, with a view of keeping ...

    Article : 128 words
  11. THE GREENWICH ELECTION.

    The following address from Mr. Gladstone has been posted in the three towns comprising the borough of Greenwich:—"Liverpool, November 25, 1868. To the electors of the borough of Greenwich; Gentlemen,—It has ...

    Article : 180 words
  12. BROTHER IGNATIUS.

    Brother Ignatius has addressed a letter to the merchants, bankers, and others of Lombard-street, in which he denies he accusation that he has insulted them by his preaching at St. Edmund's, and formally delivers to them his ...

    Article : 148 words
  13. REVERDY JOHNSON AT BRIGHTON.

    On Saturday evening, November 21, the inhabitants of Brighton gave a banquet to Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the American Minister. Mr. Peabody was to have been present, but was prevented by ill-health. Mr. Johnson, in responding to ...

    Article : 824 words
  14. ERUPTIONS OF MOUNT VESUVIUS AND ETNA.

    NAPLES, November 17.—Streams of lava from Mount Vesuvius have filled up and overflowed Fosse Vetrana, still following the course of the eruption of 1855. During the first two hours tho lava flowed at a distance of two ...

    Article : 250 words
  15. MR. GLADSTONE SENT FOR.

    Mr. Gladstone arrived at Windsor Castle on Thursday afternoon, December 3rd, in obedience to a royal summons, as the future Prime Minister, to receive her Majesty's commands, with respect to the formation of a Liberal Ministry, ...

    Article : 164 words
  16. PRESENTATION TO SIR JAMES FERGUSSON.

    On, Saturday aftornoon, November 21, a large number of gentlemen belonging to the county of Ayr assembled in the Court-house at Ayr, on the occasion of a presentation being made to Sir James Fergusson, late member for the ...

    Article : 192 words
  17. THE NOTABLES DEFEATED.

    The illustrated News refers in graphic terms to the defeat of some celebrated members of the late Parliament:- First we must, with deep regret, name John Stuart Mill, who has lost his seat for Westminster. Those who attribute ...

    Article : 852 words
  18. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S HEALTH.

    The apprehensions entertained as to the health of the Emperor Napoleon seem to be well-founded. "Not only," says one of our correspondents, "did he not mount on horseback and follow the hounds at the grand hunt the ...

    Article : 179 words
  19. SIR H. BULWER AND M. THIERS.

    A correspondence has been published between Lord Howden and M. Thiers. It was stated in a recent speech of Sir H. Bulwer that it was discussed at a ministerial council whether England should not be attacked in ...

    Article : 198 words
  20. THE RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS.

    The Daily News says:—The contests throughout the general election of 1868 have been more numerous than at any election which has taken place for very many years. Of the 493 members who sit for constituencies in England ...

    Article : 861 words
  21. THE EARL OF MAYO.

    Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to create the Earl of May[?] Governor-General of India, an ExtraKnight of St. Patrick. Lord Mayo will be the first Irish carl and the first Knight of St. Patrick who has landed in ...

    Article : 75 words
  22. THE EXECUTIONS IN ROME.

    IN the sitting of the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the 26th November Signor Curti asked what course the Italian Government intended taking after this fresh defiance given by the Papacy to Italy? To this question General ...

    Article : 272 words
  23. THE ANGLICAN CHURCH.

    Dr. Tait, Bishop of London (says the Home News), has been made Archbishop of Canterbury, to the satisfaction of all except the extreme Ritualists, who hate him for discouraging their folly, and the extreme Evangelicals who ...

    Article : 215 words
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