12 NOVEMBER 1887

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE situation in Paris has grown grave once more. When the report of the Bureaux in favour of the Wilson inquiry was presented to the Chamber on Saturday, a Deputy hitherto...

The old Fenian Party, who have for some years kept

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terms, though with some difficulty, with the Irish Nationalists, appear to be growing impatient of their subjection. A meeting of the Gaelic Athletic Association at Thurles,...

Mr. Balfour, the Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant, made a very

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masterly speech at Birmingham yesterday week, of which the only disfigurement was his description of Mr. Gladstone's Nottingham and Derby speeches as marked by " unblushing "...

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Mr. Balfour dealt first with Mr. Gladstone's assertion that the

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spirit of the Parnellite Party has wholly changed since his Government found it necessary to imprison Mr. Parnell, and to denounce him as marching through rapine to dis-...

Germany, and indeed Europe, have been greatly disturbed by alarming

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reports as to the condition of the Crown Prince. The symptoms of disease in his throat have reappeared in no dangerous a form, that Sir Morell Mackenzie was summoned from...

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As to Mitchelstown, "the demon of inaccuracy," said Mr. Balfour,—possibly

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in the shape of Professor Stuart,—had haunted Mr. Gladstone in everything he said on the sub- ject. The police were not the aggressors in the affair men- tioned by Mr. Gladstone...

At the Guildhall banquet on Wednesday, Lord George Hamilton, in

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returning thanks for the Navy, regretted the probable loss of the ' Wasp ' gunboat, which he called "the most powerful and best-equipped gunboat which ever left these shores,"...

Lord Salisbury's speech was marked by but one important announcement,

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the announcement that Ayoub Khan, the Lord Salisbury's speech was marked by but one important announcement, the announcement that Ayoub Khan, the Afghan pretender, had...

Mr. Childers on Friday week made at Dalbeattie a compara-

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tively moderate speech in favour of Home-rule. He wished, after solving the Land Question, to give Ireland a Parliament of her own, with an Executive responsible to it, bat to...

At the Liberal meeting held at Dalkeith on Tuesday, a

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letter was read from Mr. Gladstone, in which he said :—" The excesses of the Government have gone beyond all expectation, and have reached a point at which, through the officers...

Mr. Goschen, speaking at Bath on Friday week, repudiated the

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notion that the Government intended to delay introducing any Irish Land-purchase Bill, though they are firmly resolved not to let Ireland again absorb all the available time of...

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The British Government has had a piece of good fortune

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in Asia. Ayoub Khan, after months of what must have been most romantic adventure, has voluntarily surrendered himself to the British Agent at Meshed, in Persia. He appears to...

The agitation in the Canadian Dominion in favour of Free.

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trade with the United States is obviously gaining strength. At a recent conference of all the Provincial Premiers of the Dominion, it was resolved that the control of all...

Turning to Ireland, he held that, 'in spite of the

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Renbens of politics" who here and there, "unstable as water, had rolled back to the place where they bad originally been," the Unionists are now more closely united than they...

Judgment was given on Thursday in the Dublin Court of

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Exchequer on the appeal of the Law Officers of the Crown from the decision of Mr. O'Donel, the Police-Magistrate, to the effect that it was necessary for the prosecutors of a...

Count Kalnoky, the Austrian Chancellor, on Saturday made an important

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speech to the Delegations, in which he stated his belief that all danger of foreign interference had been warded off from Bulgaria. Prince Ferdinand had been legitimately...

Are there men among us, not belonging to the unemployed,

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who really desire to produce a conflict between rioters and the State P On Tuesday, Sir C. Warren, finding that the perpetual agitation in Trafalgar Square and its neighbourhood...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent.

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Consols were on Friday 1021 to 102/.

We regret to notice, on Sunday, the death of Lord

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Wolverton, better known as Mr. G. G. Glyn, formerly Whip of the Liberal Party, and Mr. Gladstone's most devoted friend and follower. Mr. Glyn had not Mr. Adam's keen sagacity...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE CROWN PRINCE OF GERMANY. S 0 far from thinking that the public exaggerates the im- portance which ought to be attached to the health of the German Heir-Apparent, we only...

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THE "NEW SPIRIT IN POLITICS."

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O NE of the defeated candidates at the last General Election Mr. John Page Hopps, who contested South Paddington with Lord Randolph Churchill, writing in the Inquirer of last...

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THE FRENCH INQUIRY.

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MHE plot is thickening in Paris ; and the signs are accumulating which, in that city, precede an outbreak either of popular or of legislative passion. The general excite- ment...

LORD SALISBURY'S ATTITUDE.

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T ORD SALISBURY'S speech at Guildhall was not in itself 4 supremely interesting, but there was a tone of calm self- possession, of perfect equanimity, about it which we...

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THE RIGHT OF PUBLIC MEETING.

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T HERE seems to be little doubt that Sir Charles Warren has a legal right to prohibit meetings in Trafalgar Square, and there can be none that, if it belongs to him, be is wise...

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CHURCH DEFENCE AS IT SHOULD NOT BE.

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J S it possible to be over-active in defence of a beneficent institution ? In one sense, of course, it is not possible. Men who feel assured that the Establishment of the...

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THE DEMAND MADE ON THE PULPIT. A N article and

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a considerable correspondence which appeared two or three months ago in the Christian World, have just been sent to us for our perusal; and certainly both the article and the...