15 MAY 1886, page 1

Lord Hartington Began By Disputing Mr. Gladstone's...

experimentation in politics. Experimentation in politics is not, he said, the proposal of grave changes without grave causes, but the proposal of grave changes, even for grave......

The Part Of This Speech Which Was Waited For With

the greatest eagerness was that containing the concessions offered to those Radicals who insist that the Irish Members shall be left in Westminster. It is said that Mr.......

Mr. Gladstone Then Went On To Deny That His Proposals

were in any sense a mere political experiment. He regarded experi- menting as the proposal of "grave changes without grave causes ;" and he did not fail to show that in this......

In Some Respects, The Speech Of The Evening Which Told

most heavily on the side of the Government was the speech of Mr. W. O'Brien, the Editor of United Ireland, and, at the time when he first entered the House, the most violent,......

News Of The Week.

T HE debate on Home-rule proceeds; but except when the great men speak, is dull, the subject having been thoroughly thrashed out. It is to proceed after Monday continuously, and......

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Mr. Gladstone's Speech On Moving The Second Reading Of The

Irish Home-rule Bill, on Monday night, was not such an effort as that which he made in moving its introduction, and hardly so powerful as his reply at the close of that first......