18 DECEMBER 1880, page 1

News Of The Week.

P OLITICAL London has been quite excited this week. A Cabinet Council, originally fixed for Wednesday, was called for Monday, and the quidnuttes decided that it had been hurried......

A Very Important Manifesto Was Issued By The Land League

on December 13th, in the form of a " Memorandum of Instruc- tions" to officers in branches of the League. Strange to say, it has never been published in the Times, possibly......

Sir Charles Dilke Delivered A Most Striking Speech On Mon-

day to his Chelsea constituents, which dealt chiefly with the foreign policy of the Government,—a section of his speech, how- ever, with which we have sufficiently dealt in......

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It May Be Taken As Certain That The Parnellites Will

resist any remedial Bills and any coercive Bills,—the latter because they will suppress agitation, and the former because they will take away its excuse. The Government will,......

Mr. Bence Jones, A Man Of Great Energy And Force

of char- acter, who has long devoted himself to the task of developing the agricultural resources of Ireland in a thoroughly generous spirit, and who has laid out, in the course......