19 AUGUST 1893, page 2

We May Note That, In His Reply To The Advocates

of the eight-hours mining day, Mr.. Gladstone says expressly : " We shall propose autumn sittings for business ; " and not merely as last week that the Government is " disposed"......

On Monday, The House Discussed At Length Mr. Carson's New

clause for leaving the appointment of the Land Commis- sioners in the hands of the Imperial Government. Mr. Chamberlain put the matter thus. Assume the L•ish land- lords to be......

On Tuesday, The House Again Discussed The Irish Upper...

Dalziel proposing to leave out the words under which it is constituted. Mr. Gladstone declared that the matter was not vital to the Bill, and that the Government were willing......

On Friday Week, The House Of Commons, After Discussing Mr.

Courtney's proposal that the Members of the Irish Cabinet should be able to attend and speak in both Houses,. considered by us at length elsewhere, entered upon Lord Wolmer's......

Sir Henry James, Who Delivered An Admirable Speech At...

last Saturday (though he need hardly have said so much in favour of that very crusty politician of a former generation, Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, who believed " in the contrary "......

Mr. Labouchere, Who Is Gone To Marie/lima S —whether...

we do not know,—has written a letter to the chairman of the Radical Association at Northampton which has in it some of the ring of a political farewell. Mr. Labouchere frankly......

Mr. Gladstone, In Spite Of His Extraordinary Ability And...

nificent courage, must often rue the day when he undertook again labours to which those of Sisyphus must sometimes seem trivial. He has not yet got his Home-rule Bill up its......