18 OCTOBER 1884, page 1

News Of The Week.

T ORD SALISBURY'S speech at Kelso on Saturday was noteworthy even in a week of thrice-reduplicated Parlia- mentary reiterations, because it shows that, with Lord Salisbury's......

Sir S. Northcote Has Spoken Several Times This Week, But

he repeats himself—we say it without reproach—and all he has to say will be found in his speech of Thursday at Liverpool. It is, briefly, that Reform is like a house, which......

Nor Is Even This All. Not Only Would Lord Salisbury

refuse to make the least concession if the most equitable Redistribution Bill in the world were introduced; he tells us plainly that he thinks the scheme which is known to be......

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The Franchise Agitation Was Discredited On Monday By A...

outbreak of violence at Birmingham. The Con- servatives had called a meeting in the Aston Grounds to hear Sir Stafford Northcote and Lord R. Churchill ; but the rougher......

Some Of The Tory Leaders, In Their Despair, Are Inclined

to see if they cannot resuscitate Protection. Sir Stafford Northcote "will not commit himself" so far as to promise a Commission of Inquiry, but thinks the subject ought to be......

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