13 DECEMBER 1884, page 2

Protection Dies Hard. On Wednesday The Annual Meeting Of The

Central Chamber of Agriculture was crowded with repre- sentative men, and a motion was proposed by Mr. C. S. Read for a Parliamentary inquiry into the general depression. The......

At ; Meeting Of The Aylesbury Liberal Association, Held On

Wednesday night, to strengthen the hands of the Government on Reform, Aylesbury—which disappears as a borough, though it will reappear as a county division, under the......

Mr. Trevelyan Illustrated This Belief Qf His That...

be stronger in refusing to meddle in what does not concern them, even though they might gain a certain showy reputation by so doing, from the foreign policy of the aristocratic,......

The Queen's Bench Division Delivered On Tuesday Their...

the ' Mignonette' case. It was that by law the killing of the boy Parker was murder, and inexcusable by any plea of self-defence. The judges, therefore, passed sentence of death......

Mr. Hibbert Has Been Appointed To The Secretaryship Of The

Treasury vacant by Mr. Courtney's resignation, and Mr. Henry Fowler will succeed Mr. Hibbert as Under-Secretary to the Home Office. By this appointment the Government gain a......

On One Other Point Sir Charles Dilke's Speech Was Of

interest. He referred to the probability that many of the new county divisions would return men like Mr. Jesse Collings, pledged to do their best to make those who had plundered......

After This Very Trenchant Expression Of Opinion, Sir...

made a speech in which he pointed out how wisely the Government had acted in dealing first and separately with the Franchise Bill. " Why," he said, and said most truly, "if we......

Mr. Courtney Made A Singular Mistake Last Week In Adducing

Geneva as an example of the evil effects of uninominal voting, and, above all, in pointing his moral with the assertion that one of the consequences of the system had been the......

Sir T. Brassey, The New Secretary To The Admiralty, Is

evidently one of those who are uneasy at the condition of the Navy. At St. Leonard's, on Thursday, he told his constituents that he thought the proposals of the Department......

As To Redistribution Itself, Sir Charles Dunce Defended...

of single seats on the very grounds on which we have defended it, as the only simple and reasonable method of fairly representing minorities. Re earnestly repudiated the notion......