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PARLIAMENT was prorogued on the 22nd April. At ten minutes past noon, his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief entered the Legislative Council Chamber to prorogue Parliament. He was attended by Lord John…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT would seem as if the chief of the Opposition had organised a series of Monday evening entertainments,0 lasting from five to six o'clock. There would also seem a probability that the series was intended to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. GLADSTONE has made one of those splendid orations in Parliament which stand out conspicuously from the ordinary line of the debates, and literally strike home to the intelligence of the whole country…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the Lords, on April 7, Lord Shaftesbury censured the bombardment of Sonderborg, without notice to the inhabitants, and hoped the Government would send a fleet to prevent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY (Thursday) the third session of the third Parliament of Victoria, was prorogued, by Governor Sir Charles Darling. There was a large number of spectators present on the occasion. As usual, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Lords, on April 7th, Lord Shaftesbury censured the bombardment of Sonderborg without notice to the inhabitants, and hoped the Government would send a fleet to prevent a repetition of such atrocities…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THERE is no man in either House who talks less nonsense than Earl Russell. Although his manner is ungainly, whatever he has to say he knows, provided he has nothing to disguise, how to say…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Newdegate naB again requested the House of Commons "to appoint a select commitiee to inquire into the character and number of monastic institutions in England and Scotland." He has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Exactly one hundred years ago the great and glorious Permissive principle was first agitated by our forefathers, headed by that immortal senator and statesman, John Bowie, whose memory is still, end will be ever…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LORDS, April 30.—Earl Russell stated that the Conference had agreed that no war contributions were to be levied in Jutland during the armistice. All articles taken for the use of the troops were to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the time of a contested election in Meath, some forty years ago, Sir Mark Somerville sent orders to the proprietor of the hotel in Trim to board and lodge all that should vote for him,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LORES, April 30.—Earl Russell stated that the Conference had forced that so war contributions were to he levied in Jutland during the armistice. All articles taken for the use of the troops were to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALL the members of the family being assembled at breakfast, the housekeeping book was laid on the table, and the house resolved itself into a committee to take into consideration the weekly supplies. The butchers, bakers, and grocers' bills were severally read for the first,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The one political event of the session bitherto has been the speech delivered in the House of Commons by Mr. Gladstone on Mr. Bainea' bill for the extension of the borough franchise. Such a gennine political…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE are morbid conditions of the body politic, as of the natural body, from which more is to be learned than from periods of perfect vitality and health. To the student of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have lately heard that, happily for the preservation of the balance of power amongst the different classes of this country, the system of our public schools has had a great deal to do with the formation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Academy has just made itself ridiculous by casting no less that ten consecutive votes without reaching to the dignity of an election. Three candidates are in the field, and the votes, thus divided, have failed to yield, for either…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nothing of colonial importance has occurred during the month…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nothing of colonial importance has occurred during the month. HOUSE OF COMMONS. June 6th.—A message from the Queen…
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