17 SEPTEMBER 1887

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Yesterday week was marked by a melancholy incident at Mitchelstown,

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County Cork. A large Nationalist meeting was arranged to support Mr. O'Brien in refusing to obey a legal summons, and the authorities sent two reporters. At the order of some...

The Comte de Paris has issued a lengthy and important

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manifesto in Paris. He declares that the "electoral considera- tions" which govern the Chamber impede all efforts, whether in finance, in foreign policy, or for the maintenance...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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MILE weary Session ended at last on Friday, at 2 o'clock. 1- The Queen's Speech was read by Commission, and con- tains nothing of interest except a warm expression of thanks for...

The Parnellite and Radical newspapers call the deaths of the

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men shot at Mitchelstown "murders," and indulge in insinua- tions that the collision was planned by Government in order that blood might be shed. The Daily News, in particular,...

The Comte de Paris proceeds to describe the Constitution he

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will promulgate. It differs but little in essence from that of Prussia. There will be a Chamber elected by universal suffrage, and a Senate partly elective and partly nominated;...

o e l 6 The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

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The incitements to resist the law now so common in

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Ireland, have produced another murder. An occupying owner near Ballycastle, County Clare, named Sexton, refused to restore an evicted tenant to some fields upon the farm. It was...

Mr. Gladstone's speech began with a repudiation of the notion

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that even if his Government had proclaimed meetings under the Common Law, which he did not admit, this was any defence in the present case. "if we tampered with the law, so mach...

As the House of Commons, on Monday night, went into

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Com- mittee on the Appropriation Bill, the question of the suppression of the Ennis meeting was raised by Sir William Harcourt, who attempted, by means of a number of quotations...

On the following night, Tuesday, Mr. Dillon and Mr. Parnell,

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supported by Mr. John Morley, took advantage of the third reading of the Appropriation Bill to attempt to extort a pledge from the Government to the effect that those whom they...

Mr. Balfour, in his reply to Sir William Harcourt, did

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not attempt to deal exhaustively with the question of law, but con- tented himself by showing that Mr. Gladstone's Administration had acted upon exactly the same view of the...

Mr. Balfour, in his reply, recused to be moved in

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any way by the taunt that he was taking personal vengeance on a political opponent. As the Crimes Act, in the opinion of the Govern- ment, and of every competent lawyer, dealt...

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The French Generals conceal the precise facts of their experi-

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ment in mobilisation with great skill. It is said that while the obedience of the men was as striking as their willingness, and while the railways worked admirably, the...

Subsequently in the sitting, Mr. Harrington was justly sus- pended.

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He refused to sit down when ordered, and declared that "the Speaker had been on the pounce to catch him since he stood up." The Speaker took no notice of the accusation beyond...

The people of Philadelphia commenced on Thursday a three days'

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festival, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the acceptance of the Constitution. With considerable judgment and some audacity, they have resolved to make the festival...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent. Consols were on Friday 101i

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to 1011.

A scene greatly to be regretted occurred in the House

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of Commons on Tuesday. The Lords' amendments to the Coal- Mines Regulation Bill were being discussed at a very late hour, when Mr. Cunninghame Graham (North-West Lanarkshire) "...

Sir John Gorst, in his speech of Friday on the

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Indian Budget, showed that Burmah had cost in 1886.87 two millions sterling in excess of the revenue received. This, however, was due exclusively to the heavy military...

The Emperor of Germany remained four days at Stettin, but

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the Czar of Russia did not pay him any visit. Considering that the Russian Emperor is staying at Copenhagen, distant only a few hours' steaming, that he is grand-nephew of the...

We cannot affect to discern the ultimate meaning of what

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is just now happening in Sofia. The most probable theory is that the other Powers stand aloof to watch, only insisting that Russia shall not occupy without their consent. The...

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THE NEW ATTITUDE OF THE COMTE DE PARIS.

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E XILES are rarely well informed, for they depend on letters, and no one writes to them who is not more or less upon their side ; but the Comte de Paris may have reason for...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE MITCHELSTOWN INCIDENT. T HEIR present close intercommunion with Parnellites seems to deprave the very judgment of some English Radicals. We question if in the worst periods...