19 MAY 1888, page 1

News Of The Week M R. Balf017r, In A Speech On

Wednesday addressed to the Conservative Association of Battersea, delivered a most crushing reply to Mr. Gladstone's address to the Noncon- formists, on which we commented last......

Sir H. Parkes, Premier Of New South Wales, Has Telegraphed

to the Colonial Office a despatch which, to speak plainly, insists that the Mother-country shall obtain a treaty from China prohibiting the emigration of Chinese to Australia.......

There Are Signs Abroad That The Greatest Of The Social

phenomena of our age, the steady movement of the surplus population of Europe across the seas, is likely to receive a check. The reluctance to receive more immigrants is not......

But The Most Remarkable Of Mr. Gladstone's Errors Were Those

affecting the Irish County-Court Judges. Mr. Glad- stone spoke of the increase of a sentence on appeal as a per- fectly monstrous iniquity, whether it were or were not legal......

The Hill In All Foreign Affairs Has Lasted Throughout The

week. It appears from the detailed reports that General Boulanger's tour in the Nord was fairly successful, the populace everywhere showing itself on his side; but the oppo- •......

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