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It Is Clear That The Refractory Members Of The Party

remain sullen. There is an improbable rumour that Mr. Biggar con- templates retirement into private life; but Mr. Sullivan, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, declares that he will not......

The Bishop Of Oxford, In Distributing The Certificates...

awarded to the candidates in the Oxford Local Examina- tions of 1885 at the London and Southwark centres, on Wednes- day, in the theatre of the University of London, delivered......

The House Of Lords Met On Monday, Only Apparently For

the installation of the new Lord Chancellor, Sir Farrer Herschell, who took his seat on the Woolsack as Lord Herschell. After donning his Peer's robes and making the usual......

The Paris Correspondent Of The Times, In A Letter Published

on Thursday, intimates, in a curiously involved and obscure way, but still unmistakeably, that M. de Freycinet will not be able to keep General Boulanger as Minister for War.......

Two Further Receptions Of The Irish Patriotic Union Have...

place,—one at Hull yesterday week, and one at Sheffield on Wednesday last. Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., who presided at the latter meeting, predicted that Home-rule in Ireland......

There Is Revolt In The Air Just Now, And It

has spread to the Parnellites. Mr. Parnell wished Captain O'Shea, who helped him with the so-called " Kilmainham Treaty," to be elected for Galway ; but many of his followers,......

Bank Bate, 3 Per Cent. Consols Were On Friday 1001

to 1003.......

The Welsh Are Meditating A Land League, And On Thursday

received Mr. Michael Davitt with enthusiasm at Flint, and listened to a great speech of Ilia in support of the principles of the Irish Land League. If the evils which we have......

The Long-expected Divorce Suit Of " Crawford V. Dilke "

began and ended on Friday. The petition was dismissed as regards Sir Charles Mike, against whom no legal evidence was forth- coming, Mrs. Crawford's statement to her husband not......

On Thursday, The French Chamber Was The Scene Of An

extra- ordinary incident. M. Basly, a new Member for Paris, got up, and in the plainest possible language justified the murder of M. Watrin, manager of the Decazeville iron and......