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  2. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A PARISH PRIEST.

    An extraordinary case has been before the Irish Court of Exchequer. It is an action by a Mrs. Sheridan against her parish priest, the Rev. Mr. Judge, for false arrest and malicious prosecution "in respect of a sacrilegious outrage ...

    Article : 580 words
  3. THE PROPERTY OF PERSONS CONVICTED.

    A singular case, involving the question whether the Crown is entitled to the personal property of persona convicted in the colonies, came on for hearing in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on March 1. As our readers will be ...

    Article : 630 words
  4. THE JUDICATURE BILL.

    Lord Selborne's Judicature Bill was read a second time on Tuesday, amid a perfect chorus of approval from all the legal personages in the House. Lord Hatherley concurred with Lord Selborne from beginning to end; Lord ...

    Article : 69 words
  5. MARRIAGE WITH DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.

    The bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister was thrown out in the Lords by a vote of 74 to 49. The speeches were of the usual kind, and the division had no party character, Lord Kimberley voting for the bill, while ...

    Article : 119 words
  6. SLAVERY AT ZANZIBAR.

    A correspondent of the Times, who writes from Zanzibar, and is obviously well informed, states that the Sultan has finally refused to sign a treaty binding him to suppress the slave trade. He alleges that slavery is permitted by the ...

    Article : 208 words
  7. ST. PATRICK'S EVE—DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK.

    A demonstration, on the occasion of St. Patrick's Eve, was held March 16, in Hyde Park. The object was two-fold-first, to pasts resolutions in favour of Home Rule for Ireland, and, second, to advocate the unconditional release ...

    Article : 836 words
  8. MRS. COTTON, THE POISONER.

    Mary Anne Cotton, the woman suspected of twenty-one murders, but convicted only of one, the murder of one child, Charles Edward Cotton, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Archibald, after a three days' trial. ...

    Article : 353 words
  9. THE CENTRAL ASIAN QUESTION.

    Some of our contemporaries contend that Persia ought unquestionably to be counted of more importance than even Afghanistan in all considerations of this question. The very easiest route by which to march on India is that ...

    Article : 323 words
  10. UNSEA WORTHY SHIPS.

    The case of the fifteen seamen of the ship Peru gives an additional interest to the benevolent exertions of Mr. Plimsoll on behalf of English sailors. These men were sentenced to three months imprisonment in Dorchester gaol for ...

    Article : 347 words
  11. THE BRITISH ARMY FOR 1873.

    The regimental establishment, officers and men, to be voted by the House of Commons is constituted as follows:—Royal Horse Artillery, 2991, and riding establishment, 226; Life and Horse Guards, 1302; Cavalry of the Line, ...

    Article : 269 words
  12. FEARFUL COLLISION.

    On the let March, the greatest excitement prevailed in Liverpool on the receipt of a despatch, to the effect that a three-masted screw steamer, with a black funnel, with a white band, has foundered off the Great Ormeshead, and ...

    Article : 491 words
  13. PRESERVED MEATS.

    Tallerman's Meat Agency (limited), under date March 20, reports:—Considerable improvement is apparent in the demand for preserved meats, and but few parcels are in first hands. Although arrivals lately have been numerous, they ...

    Article : 321 words
  14. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

    In the sitting of the Lower House of the Prussian Diet on February 20th, the Minister of Finance said that the surpluses in the revenue last year amounted to twenty millions of thalers, and that being the case he proposed to fix the ...

    Article : 1,829 words
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