11 OCTOBER 1884, page 2

Mr. Forster And Mr. John Morley Also Spoke At Leeds

on Satur- day. Mr. Forster laughed at the Tory demand for a Dissolution on a subject, the Franchise Bill, which everybody professed to be agreed about, and said the object was......

Of Speeches There Are No End. Lord Randolph Churchill Has

delivered two this week, one at Leeds and one at Carlisle, both pervaded by two thoughts,—one that bold, open rowdyism of expression will take with the mob, and the other that......

The Most Noticed Passage Of The Speech, However, Referred To

a possible "compromise." Lord Hartington utterly rejected the idea of introducing the Redistribution Bill this autumn, in. order that it might go up to the Lords with the......

It Is Understood That The Government Has Resolved To Defend

Bechuanaland from the incursions of the Boers, at first through a local European police force—armed, of course—and afterwards, if needful, by an expedition. This course, which......

_ In The Other Portions Of His Speech, Mr. Chamberlain,

after defending by many quotations his belief that the Tories were not sincere in their professed liking for the Franchise Bill, —which was denounced by the "most honest" man in......

Sir William Harcourt On Thursday Made A Splendidly...

bitter attack on Lord Salisbury, against whom he spoke nearly an entire page of the Times. He never varied his sub- ject, or for an instant lost his grip ; and Lord Salisbury,......

It Must Be Observed That Mr. Chamberlain, Who Is To

the Radicals what Lord Hartington is to the Tories, endorsed this offer at Hanley on Tuesday. After a speech of great vigour and some acrimony, in which he rejected Lord......

Reports Continue To Arrive From Pekin That The Empress Is

arranging for a compromise with France, but no compromise has been made. The Chinese mob is so fierce against the French, even in Hong Kong, that the coolies refuse to load......