13 FEBRUARY 1886, page 1

The Police, It Is Clear, Failed On Monday. It Is

folly to attack an excellent body of men who usually do their duty admir- ably, but it seems evident that there was a serious want either of purpose or judgment in Scotland......

News Of The Week.

A LL important re-elections will be over to-day, but Parlia- ment does not meet till Thursday, and even then we may be far from a statement of the Government ideas. There is a......

The Accounts From Eastern Europe Remain Contradictory. It...

and reaffirmed that the Emperor of Russia, though enraged with Prince Alexander for promising military aid to the Sultan, still will not actively oppose him, and insists that......

The Actual Force Is Ample, As Some Forty Thousand Drilled

men could be in the streets in two hours ; but the scare proves a necessity for some changes. First, Sir E. Henderson should be respectfully superseded by a more vigilant and......

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London, Usually So Tranquil, Has Been Excited And Alarmed...

week by a most serious riot. A meeting of the unemployed had been called on Monday, in Trafalgar Square, and was largely attended by decent poor men, chiefly builders, who are......