13 APRIL 1878, page 2

The Resistance Offered To The Additional Tobacco-duty...

and again on Thursday was not very serious. Yester- day week only 17 votes were given against it, while 100 were given in its favour ; and on Thursday the vote was not......

The Debate In The Commons Was Commenced By Sir Stafford

Northcote, in a speech which we have described elsewhere, and which was in the main pacific, though it contained one curious reference to the necessity of protecting our......

We Fear We Must Not Make Too Much Of The

great meeting held at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, on Wednesday. It was attended by upwards of 400 delegates, most of them from separate towns or from very large......

Out Of Fifteen Seats In The French Chamber Of Deputies

filled up last Sunday by fresh elections, the Republicans have already gained fourteen, and are morally certain of the fifteenth, the two highest candidates being both......

Sir U. Kay-shuttleworth On Friday Week Raised A Somewhat...

debate on the Municipal Government of London. In a very good and not too lengthy speech, he moved that the pre- sent system was unsatisfactory, and asked for a central and......

The Debate In The Commons On Tuesday Was Very Much

quieted by the distribution, in a third edition of the Times, of a Memorandum appended by Prince Gortschakoff to his answer to Lord Salisbury, published in St. Petersburg and......

There Were, Of Course, During The Debate Of Two Days

many minor speeches, all indifferently reported, and none of them very interesting. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, in defiance of his leaders, moved an amendment regretting that Government......

The Privy Council Have Issued Stringent Orders That In...

the minority of the Judges on the Judicial Committee shall *mem strict silence as to their judgments, so that only the judgment of the majority shall go forth ; and they ground......

The Only Important Speech Of The Second Night's Debate Was

Lord Hartington's. The official leader of the Liberals declined to propose or vote for any amendment, but animadverted on the refusal of the Government to say straight out......