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On This, Various Members Of The Parnellite Party Did What

they could to instigate the Irish electors to vote at the General Elec- tion against a party which could approve Lord Hartington's very frank language. Later, Lord Randolph......

The Lord Mayor Gave A Dinner To The New Ministry

on Wednesday, at which Lord Wolseley, who had to answer for the Army, seems to have given offence to some of our Conservative contemporaries. He gave this offence by asserting......

It Seems No Longer Doubtful That The Mahdi Is Actually

dead. According to the latest accounts he was taken ill on Friday, June 19th, and died on Sunday, the 21st, from small-pox. He nominated his nephew, Abdullah, as his successor,......

With Relation To Foreign Policy, Lord Salisbury Raised A...

as usual over the evacuation of Candahar and the surrender of the so-called "scientific frontier." He seems unable to grasp the fact that if we had still been in occupation of......

In The House Of Lords On Monday, Lord Granville And

Lord Milltown had a curious contest as to which should move the second reading of the Medical Relief Bill, abandoned by the Government. Lord Granville, who has had an attack of......

Mr. Chamberlain Made A Lively Speech At Hackney Yesterday...

in support of the candidature of Mr. Charles Russell, M.P., for South Hackney. Mr. Stephenson, who presided, in introducing Mr. Chamberlain to the meeting, spoke of him, as......

Mr. Chamberlain Then Proceeded To Remark That The Tories Are

in office but the Radicals in power, and that the Treasury Bench of the stop-gap Government is filled with "an eccentric combination," the new performers having donned the old......

In The House Of Commons, On Tuesday, Mr. Callan,—to Whom,

according to Mr. Bright, his remarks had no application, until Mr. Callan himself asserted in the House of Commons on that day that he might " almost " say Lord Spencer was......

Lord Salisbury Replied By A Speech Of Which, In Our

opinion, candour was not the prominent characteristic. He denied that the Conservatives had changed their principles at all since they became a Government. The abandonment of......