1 DECEMBER 1888, page 1

We Do Not Quite Understand What The Irish Members Or

their English allies expect to get by obstructing business, but they are certainly doing it. The Ashbourne Act, formally admitted by Mr. Parnell to be good in intention, and......

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News Of The Week.

T HE greatest importance is attached in Paris to an immense demonstration, which is to take place to-morrow, in honour of M. Baudin, the Radical Deputy who was shot on a......

There Was A Great Sensation In The House Of Commons

on Monday night, when Mr. Sheehy, M.P., raised a question of privilege, on the ground that a member of the Irish Con- stabulary had tried • to arrest 'him within the precincts......

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Lord Salisbury's Speech In Edinburgh On Thursday Was One Of

the ablest he has delivered for a very long time. He took for his principal subject the enormous advance on any his- torical precedent which is involved in Mr. Gladstone's......

A Certain Tension Has Suddenly Been Revealed Between...

Germany ; and it is alleged that the German Ambassador, Prince Reuss, is quarrelling with the Cis-Leithan Premier, Count Taaffe. This is denied, of course ; but it will be......