17 MAY 1884, page 2

China Has Submitted. . M. Ferry To Force The Hand

of the Court of Pekin, .demanded an indemnity, and the Empress Regent, thus compelled to choose between peace and war, ordered Li Hung Chang to make the best treaty pos- sible.......

Mr. Forster, The Next Speaker, Regretted That He Could Not

sup- port the Government. General Gordon had been despatched to Khartoum not because it was humane to send him, but because it was the duty of the Government which had ordered......

,it Is Said That Lord Randolph Churchill Has Become...

to his leaders, and that he was yesterday to be replaced in the- chair of the National 'Union of Conservative Associations which he resigned a fortnight ago. However that may......

On Tuesday The Attorney-general Delivered A Most...

instructive speech at Egham, at a meeting held to pro- mote the return, at the next general election, of Liberals for West Surrey, on the structure and history of the Franchise......

Lord Hartington, After A Needless And Rather Ungenerous...

Mr. .Forster for want of gratitude to Mr. Gladstone —who, of course, chooses his Cabinet in the public interest, not his own—defended the course of the Government upon the usual......

Lord R. Churchill, For Example, Who Resumed The Debate On

Tuesday, after Lord E. Fitzmaurice had answered Mr. Gibson and some of the smaller fry, and after Mr. Chaplin had taunted Mr. Gladstone with the depth of his insincerity,......