17 NOVEMBER 1877, page 2

Lord Northbrook Made On Friday Week A Very Decided Speech

at Winchester. He utterly contemned the idea that Russia could be dangerous to our dominion in India. It had fallen to his lot in 1852, when we were at war with Russia, to be......

The Dinner At Guildhall On Friday Week Went Off Peaceably.

The greater Ambassadors did not attend, and Lord Beaconsfield was not in the bombastic vein. We have commented on his speech elsewhere, but must add here that it is described in......

Mr. Gladstone Has Been Elected Lord Rector Of Glasgow Uni-

versity by a majority of 544,-1,153 votes against 609 for Sir Stafford Northcote. Indeed, he had a large majority in every nation, as well as a large total majority, a majority......

The Colston Festival At Bristol On Tuesday Was Shorn Of

its usual honours. Mr. Forster, indeed, delivered to the Liberal audience at the " Anchor" an important speech, on which we have commented at length elsewhere ; but the poor......

Mr. Leathern Addressed His Constituents At Huddersfield...

one of those conventional peace speeches which we know so well, and of which we are so thoroughly weary. He was almost as bitter against Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions and the......

The Lord Chief Baron, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Was, On Friday

week, in a most pugnacious mood, inclined, as Americans say, " to hold up the banner of his country in the face of a backing-down universe." He had to receive the new Lord......

The American House Of Representatives Has Finally Decided...

the Army to 20,000 men, having passed the vote, after a sharp debate, by 133 to 127. The Senate may resist, but as it has no power to vote the money, it must, if the House is......