21 MAY 1881, page 3

The Americans Have Been Greatly Interested Of Late In A

fierce struggle with the Republican Party. President Garfield thinks he has a right to choose his agents, and has appointed Mr, Robertson, a most qualified candidate, Collector......

The Americans Are Beating Us Again. This Time, They Have

invented a pencil which will make an indelible mark. The load in the pencil is not plumbago, but a composition ; it writes as easily as a pencil, and after a few seconds, the......

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,......

The House Of Lords Is Very Uneasy About The State

of Ire- land, and well it may be, as no public body in this country has 10 much to answer for as the House of Lords. Its rejection of the Disturbance Bill of last Session was,......

Consols Were On Friday 1021 To 102k.

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The Bradlaugh Controversy Is Adjourned Till After The...

Bill has passed the House of Commons. Yesterday week, Sir Wilfrid Lawson was appealed to by Mr. Labouchore, on behalf of Mr. Bradlaugh, not to press his motion at present ; Lord......

On Monday, Mr. Healy And Mr. O'donnell Attacked Mr. Forster

with more than usual ferocity, in relation to the tearing- down by the police of the Enniscorthy placards inciting the people to assemble in their thousands at Wexford, to see......

From Mr. Gladstone's Reply To The Deputation On The French

and Austrian sugar bounties, which he received on Wednesday, we may fairly infer that the Prime Minister agrees with this journal that the objections which there may be to the......