22 DECEMBER 1883, page 2

Mr. F. L. James, Who Has Studied And Lived Among

the tribes between Suakim and the Nile, writes to the Times to say they are not as yet influenced by the Mahdi. They are in insur- rection to secure independence of the Egyptian......

Lord Randolph Devoted His Wednesday's Speech To A Tirade...

the agricultural labourer, as a person quite unfit for Parliamentary representation ; and a demand for redistribution in the representation of boroughs, which he declared to be......

It Is Stated By A Conservative Contemporary That, In The

event of Sir Henry Brand's retirement from the Speakership, the Conservatives will bring forward Sir Matthew White .Ridley as a candidate for the post. We do not know that Sir......

Lord R. Churchill Began A Series Of Speeches In Edinburgh

on Tuesday by a furious attack on the Egyptian policy of the Government, his idea being that we should restore Arabi, re- pudiate the public Debt, sponge out the debt of the......

Prince Bismarck Has Gone A Step Farther On The" Socialistic"

path. He has introduced two Bills into the Prussian Chamber, altering the incidence of the Income-tax. By the first, all persons with less than £60 a year are declared exempt,......

The Crown Prince Of Germany Has Visited The Pope In

state. A pleasingly absurd little fiction was kept up that he was living at the Prussian Legation to the Vatican, and not at the Quiri- nal, and Cardinal Jacobini gravely called......

No Intelligence Has Been Received This Week From Egypt,...

Baker having been delayed in his departure for Suakim by want of money. He has, however, started at last, with full powers from the Khedive, but written orders to be as little......

Lord Randolph Concluded On Thursday What The Times Calls His

" trilogy " of speeches in Edinburgh by a speech on Ireland, on which we have said almost enough in another column. We may add here that he accused the Government of having......