1 APRIL 1882, page 1

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The Debate On Thursday Night Was Much More Impressive. It

was opened by Mr. Bright, in one of the weightiest speeches which he has ever addressed to the House of Commons. He showed that the Government had protected the rights of small......

Colonel Stanley, Who Replied To Mr. Bright, Was...

indeed, the Conservative party obviously felt to the quick the painfulness of its coalition with the extreme foes of the Empire. Mr. Mitchell Henry, later in the debate,......

News Of The Week

MEE first resolution on Procedure, so far, at least, as it affirms the principle of the closure of debate by a majority, was carried in the House of Commons on Thursday night,......

Sir Stafford Northcote, Who, In A Singularly Depressed...

speech, had recourse to feeble taunts against Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. Mundella, both of which miscarried, and on the historical failure of the first Speaker of the Reformed Parlia-......

Monday's Debate On The Closure Was Not A Very Striking

one. Sir H. Giffard misrepresented Sir W. Harcourt and Lord Hartington as having argued for the closure of debate by a majority as a rule intended to stop fair discussion......

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