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The Closure May Prove A More Powerful Weapon In Our

politics than was anticipated. The House begins to perceive its utility in preventing mere talk, and employs it for that purpose with zest. On Tuesday, for example, the House......

On Wednesday, A Very Curious Scene Took Place In The

House of Commons, Mr. Bradlang13,—who was so lately kept out of the House at the sacrifice of weeks of valuable Parliamentary time, —having carried his Affirmation Bill by a......

The French Government Evidently Regard The " Boulangist "...

as dangerous, for the Minister of War, with the consent of the President, has deprived General Boulanger of his command, and placed him upon half-pay. The pretext for this act......

On Friday Week, Too, Mr. Labouchere Moved His Resolution,...

it is contrary to the true principles of representative government, and injurious to their efficiency, that any person should be a member of one House of the Legislature by......

Mr. Bright Has Rather Overshot The Mark In An Attack

of his on the Thirty-seventh Article for saying,—"It is lawful for Christian men, at the commandment of the Magistrate, to wear weapons and nerve in the wars." This amounts only......

The First Lord Of The Treasury Expressed Himself As Quite

ready to strengthen the Home of Lords, bat declared that the initiation of reform must be left to the House of Lords itself, and he quoted Mr. Gladstone's strongly expressed......

Mr. Rathbone (m.p. For Carnarvonshire) Spoke In Favour Of A

strengthened and reformed House of Lords,—one in which the hereditary principle should have a recognition as determining the class out of which the bulk of the House was to be......

Lord Hartington Followed Mr. Morley, To Call Attention To...

deliberate throwing over of Mr. Gladstone's counsel, ten- dered only two years ago, not to meddle with questions of such deep moment as this by the instrumentality of abstract......

The Government Have Determined To Give A Salary To The

Irish Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Mr. King-Harman, who has rendered great assistance to Mr. Balfour, and who is to have a salary provided for him by the suppression of one of......