19 NOVEMBER 1881, page 1

Tile Programme Of The New Ministry Is Very Colourless, And,

indeed, is made up of phrases. It would seem to promise a limited revision of the Senate, a further expurgation of the judiciary, a reduction either of the Army or of the term......

Colston Day In Bristol,—that Is, Last Saturday,—gave...

so many considerable speeches on both sides of politic-, that we can hardly even mention them all. At the Anchor dinner, Mr. Coleridge, in an eloquent speech which attracted......

News Of The Week.

1VI GAMBETTA did not find it so easy to form a Ministry as • was expected. He first asked M. de Freycinet to accept the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, but after an interview of......

The Most Marked And Decidedly The Worst Feature Of The

new Government is the appointment of M. Bert, an unusually cruel -vivisectionist, and an atheist of the most violently aggressive type, as Minister not only of Instruction, but......

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The Attorney-general, Sir Henry James, Followed, In A...

remarkable power, in which he declined to attempt an answer to "too numerous gutter children of politics, who delight themselves in casting dirt on the reputa- tions of......