13 DECEMBER 1879, page 2

Lord Salisbury And The Duke Of Richmond Have Both Been

speaking this week on agricultural subjects. Both admitted depression, and both hoped for better times—the Duke, how- ever, being evidently doubtful whether the end might not be......

In His Political Speech On The Same Evening In St.

Andrew's Hall, Mr. Gladstone reviewed the whole case against the present Government with more fire and condensation than in any of his former speeches. He showed that in the......

The First Lord Of The Admiralty Presided At A Lecture

given by a South-African Missionary in Westminster, on Thursday, and. made a speech upon the Zulu war. It wag most moderate in tone. He doubted if war could have been ultimately......

Mr. Gladstone's Rectorial Address To The Glasgow...

week, can hardly haVe been long considered, for its preparation was only begun within a day of its delivery, and must have been in great measure extempore. Yet we remember no......

Mr. Gladstone's Journey Home Was Like His Journey To Scot-

land,—one long ovation. At Motherwell, at Carstairs, at Carlisle, at Overholme, at Preston, at Wigan, at Warrington, and at Chester (where a great torchlight procession was......

The Prince Of Bulgaria Has Dissolved His Parliament, And...

Bishop Clement Premier, and rumours are current that he may suspend the Constitution. The cause of this step is not accurately known, but it is noteworthy that all the accounts......

Prince Bismarck Has Carried His Railway Projects Through...

House of Deputies, with the aid of unexpected allies. It was believed that he would be supported by the Con- servatives and the Ultra.montanes, but at the last moment he refused......