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  2. MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM.

    A GREAT Reform demonstration took place on Easter Monday at Birmingham. Processions filed through the streets during the day, and in the evening a meeting was held in the Town-hall, which was densely crowded. Resolutions ...

    Article : 1,332 words
  3. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

    ADDITIONS TO THE NAVY.—The following are the names of the vessels of war now under construction at the various royal and private dockyards for the British navy, together with the place where building"—Avon, 2 guns, twin-screw ...

    Article : 1,679 words
  4. THE FENIANS IN IRELAND.

    THE Commission for the trial of the Fenian prisoners commenced on April 24. Eighteen prisoners were placed at the bar, charged with high [?] but only three were arraigned, viz., Burke, M'Cafferty, and Doran. A number ...

    Article : 3,082 words
  5. TRIAL OF ADMIRAL PERSANO.

    FLORENCE, April 15.—The sentence of the High Court of Justice on Admiral Persano pronounces him guilty of disobedience, incapacity, and negligence, and condemns him to retire from the service, to be degraded from the ...

    Article : 482 words
  6. THE STRIKE OF THE LONDON TAILORS.

    ON the 22nd April, an aggregate meeting of the London operative tailors was held at the Alhambra Palace, Leicester-square, for the purpose of discussing the mode of action which should be adopted regarding the subject-matter of ...

    Article : 1,042 words
  7. THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH FLEETS.

    THE Army and Navy Gazette, comparing the naval forces of England and France, shows that we had only thirty-nine armour-plated vessels of all classes on the 1st of January agaisnt sixty of every description belonging to the French. ...

    Article : 308 words
  8. THE JAMAICA PROSECUTIONS.

    WE (Home News) briefly announced in our last that a warrant was applied for on March 25 at the Market Drayton Petty Sessions for the arrest of ex-Governor Eyre, and was granted by the sitting magistrates. The case was resumed ...

    Article : 1,321 words
  9. THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW ON EASTER MONDAY.

    THE Review is spoken of by the papers as a very successful affair. The Daily News says:—This striking spectacle of 25,000 men conveyed in half a dozen hours without fatigue, and in full readiness for combat, to a point sixty or ...

    Article : 593 words
  10. THE SPANISH DIFFICULTY.

    MADRID, April 16, Evening.—The prize court at Cadiz has declared the capture of the Queen Victoria by the Spanish cruiser to have been illegal. The Epoca considers that by this decision the difference between England and ...

    Article : 1,155 words
  11. THE AGRA BANK.

    A MEETING of shareholders of the Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited) took place on April 16th, at the London Tavern, to receive the report of the committee appointed on October 18th last. Mr. Thomson in the chair. ...

    Article : 653 words
  12. SEVEN MONTHS IN THE ICE.

    A GHOSTLY ship, which might well have been that of the "Ancient Mariner" of Coleridge, sailed into Rona's Voe, Shetland, on the 2nd of April. Battered and crushed, sails and cordage blown away, spars and planking destroyed, ...

    Article : 935 words
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