10 AUGUST 1878, page 2

On Wednesday, Sir Stafford Northcote Went As Near To A

his- tory of the acquisition of Cyprus as he has yet ventured to go. In the first place, he said the policy of the Government was many- sided, as any substantial policy must be......

Mr. Childers Criticised Sir Stafford Northcote's...

very masterly speech, to the precedents of which we have else- where referred at some length ; and Mr. Gladstone said that the Conservatives of the present day seemed to have no......

The German Elections, So Far As They Have Yet Been

determined, do not promise favourably for the Liberals. The Conservatives, it is said, are 112 strong in the new Parliament, against only 77 in the old. The Liberals are only......

If We Are Really To Have This New Era, It

is certainly strange that the Government anticipates so little in the way of expense from the novel and magnificent Oriental policy on which they have resolved. Sir Stafford......

On Tuesday There Was A Great " Scene "in The

House of Commons. Major O'Gorman—among Home-rulers, certainly the favourite of the House—was in a state of great excitement, due, it is said, to the refusal of the War......

The Subsequent Discussion Elicited Many Protests Against...

to place under a Department which has never had the least experience in this kind of administration, the govern- ment of a large island like Cyprus, and Mr. Lowe expressed the......

Sir Patrick O'brien Was Mistaken In Asserting That Mr....

—now Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, the Speaker of the Victoria House of Commons,—had ever been subjected to this awful process of being " named " by the Speaker. What happened was......