20 MARCH 1880, page 2

We Are Happy To See That Lord George Hamilton's Seat

for Middlesex is to be contested, and by Mr. Herbert Gladstone. fourth son of the ex-Premier. Lord George Hamilton is a pro- mising young man, but apparently he will always......

Mr. Gladstone's Progress To Scotland On Tuesday Was...

by bursts of popular enthusiasm as extraordinary as those of his November journey to Midlothian. An enormous crowd of many thousands was assembled at the Great Northern Station......

Mr. Gladstone, In Criticising The Budget, On Monday...

the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the new fashion he had introduced, in reckoning his operations on the National Debt, of taking credit for the assets he had created, in the......

A Serious Debate In The Italian Chamber On Foreign Policy,.

which has greatly interested Italians, closed on the 16th in a decided victory for the Premier (S. Cairoli), who declared that Italy had no " peculiar designs ;" that she "......

Mr. Gladstone's Great Speech In The Edinburgh Music Hall On

Wednesday it is, of course, simply impossible to condense, or even to characterise, in the few lines at our disposal. It was a speech on the strength of the Empire, on the......

Mr. Gladstone's Speech On Thursday In The Free Church At

Corstorphine, three miles from Edinburgh, was chiefly devoted to refuting Lord Beaconsfield's allegation that the Liberal Government had bequeathed to him special difficulties......

Troubles Thicken On The Russian Government. It Appears To Be

certain that the Government of Pekin has rejected the treaty for the sale of Kuldja, and has eitherexecuted its Plenipotentiary,. Chung How, for signing it, or has sentenced him......

The Situation Is Not Clearing In Afghanistan. All...

in describing Ifahmoud Jan as ready for a new attack on Cabal, and as supported by the Kohistanees, who last year fur- nished his best soldiers. At the same time, it 18......