21 MAY 1881, page 2

M. Gambetta Has Carried The Scrntin De Lige Through The

Chamber, by a very narrow majority. The project was brought forward on Thursday, and was denounced by M. Bardoux, reporter of the bureau to which it had been referred, but was......

The Bishop Of Gloucester And Bristol Presented To The Con-

vocation of the Province of Canterbury, on Tuesday, the Revised Version of the New Testament, in a speech explaining that it had gone through six, and in some sense even seven,......

When The House Divided, There Appeared For The Second Read-

ing a majority of 352 against 176, exactly two to on 0,—a majority very far in excess of the largest majority which this Government can usually command, and that, too, although......

Something Like A Social War Is Breaking Out Iu Southern

Russia. The common people are in great distress, and disturbed by false promises, and in Kiev, Odessa, and, it is said, twenty other towns, they are attacking the rich. As among......

Alexander Iii, Has Decided To Adhere To The Old Ways.

Pressed by entreaties from Berlin, by some councillors, and by his own tendency to prefer" Russian "institutions—he has just restored the beard to the Russian Arm y, prohibited......

Lord Salisbury Delivered A Most Important Speech On...

at a dinner given by the Merchant Taylors. We have described the speech elsewhere, but its general effect was to condemn the Irish Laud Bill utterly as a confiscatory measure,......

On Thursday Night, Mr. Chaplin Delivered A Long And Fierce

harangue against the Bill, including one against Free-trade, which he declared to be fatal to peasant-proprietors in England, and he ended by describing the Irish Land Bill as......

Mr. Dillwyn Brought On His Resolutions For Strengthening...

of the House over its own procedure on Tuesday night, in a speech candidly confessing that he had considered it his duty often to obstruct the carrying of important mea- sures......

The Sultan Is Striking Down The Great Pashas, One After

another. Mahmond Darned is in prison, and it is doubtful if he is still alive, as he has had " a stroke of apoplexy,"—a disease of Turkish prisons—and Midhat Pasha is a prisoner......