20 APRIL 1878, page 1

Str Wilfrid Lawson On Tuesday Resisted The Proposal That The

House of Commons on its rising should adjourn to Monday, May 6th, on the ground that this was far too long a holiday for the House to take, in the present critical condition of......

Lancashire Is Threatened With A Grave Calamity. The...

the cotton trade contend, we think reasonably, that profits have so declined that unless wages can be reduced they must stop, and have given notice of a ten-per-cent. reduction.......

Parliament Adjourned On Tuesday For An Unusual Holiday,...

taking a Recess to May 6th, and the Lords to May 13th. Nothing was said in the Lords, and no question asked as to the position of negotiations, but in the Commons Mr. Forster......

The Impression Of The Public At The Close Of The

week is that things look more pacific, but there is very little evidence in support of the impression. Sir Stafford Northcote said, on Tuesday, that the danger had not......

News Of The Week • T He Event Of The Week

has been the publication, through Renter, of a telegram from Calcutta, datedApril 17th—that is, one day after the adjournment of Parliament—announcing that orders had been......

On Thursday Her Majesty In Council Forbade The Export Of

all torpedoes or torpedo apparatus from the United Kingdom. The order is probably prompted by informatien of which we have no knowledge, but on the Continent it will be regarded......

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