13 AUGUST 1881, page 1

News Of The Week.

T HE Lord Mayor entertained her Majesty's Minsters at the Mansion House on Saturday, and in proposing their health, stated that he could speak from actual observation in saying......

On Other Subjects, The Speeches Were Not Of The First

import- ance. Mr. Gladstone reviewed the foreign and colonial policy of the Government, and laughed at the impression which seemed to be abroad that Liberal Governments thought......

Lord Granville Said That Be Could Account For Lord...

speech only as a safety-valve for the escape of feelings which would otherwise probably have given him a bad attack of gout. It was a speech for the rejection of the second......

The Lords Further Struck Out The Provisions By Which, On

the expiration of leases or sub-leases, the Court is empowered to revise the rent ; they struck out the power to quash leases obtained by undue pressure since th Land Act of......

In Reply To Mr. Rathbone, Yesterday Week, Mr. Gladstone Made

a formal statement in the House of Commons that "he could not hesitate to say, with increasing strength of convic- tion, derived from weeks' and months' experience, that the......

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On Monday The Lords Took Both The Report And The

third read- ing, and separated, moreover, at ten minutes before seven o'clock. Nevertheless, Lord Carnarvon had time to make a bitter speech against the principle of the Bill,......

Yesterday Week, The House Of Lords Amply Justified Our Re-

mark that the passionate hatred of the very principle of the Irish Land Bill by which they had shown themselves to be animated, would compel them "to go just as near improving......