12 APRIL 1884, page 2

After Mr. Goschen's Speech, Mr. O'connor Power Pleaded...

a self-acting law which would alter the repre- sentation as population varied, and pointed out how the attempt to keep down Irish representative rights had told, as it was long......

At Its Meeting On Tuesday, The House Of Commons Was

a little amused, and a little shocked, by a new question of privilege. Mr. Dodds, Member for Stockton, had issued a private Whip adjuring Members to support the Stockton Carrs......

The House, With Tellers And Speaker, Numbered 555, And There

were 34 pairs, which accounts for 68 more votes, or for 623 in all. Only 19 votes remain unaccounted for, some of them being the votes of Members who were ill, like Mr. Bright,......

Mr. Goschen's Was The Last Important Speech In The Debate.

He announced his intention of voting against the Bill. The Government had not given him the pledge he hoped for, to represent minorities in their Redistribution Bill ; the new......

Sir William Harcourt Produced The London Municipal Bill...

Its general idea, which is the absorption of all Municipal functions by a "Common Council " of 240, elected by the householders of thirty-nine districts, is sufficiently......

Sir Michael Hicks-beach, Who,—in Spite Of A Certain...

mind which occasionally leads him into false positions, like that of his unhappy commentary on the "dirty trick" of March 15th,—is probably more likely than any other Conserva-......

The Bill Appears To Have Been Received With General...

though annoyance is expressed both by Tories and vestrymen at the abolition of Aldermen, the leading local workers still apparently desiring that title. It is essential,......

Mr. Stuart Wortley, In A Letter To Wednesday's Times, Vir-

tually admits that the Conservative working-men of Sheffield do desire to see household francbis extended to the counties, though he makes the very path( tic plea,—(1), that the......