23 FEBRUARY 1889, page 2

Lord Rosebery Has Been Unjustly Blamed For His Absence From

the meeting of the London County Council on Tuesday, he having been elected with a full knowledge that he had other occupations. In his absence, however, the Council got a......

Sir R. Cartwright On Tuesday Moved, In The Parliament Of

the Canadian Dominion, an address to the Crown praying that Canada might be empowered to appoint diplomatic agents of her own, competent to sign commercial treaties - without......

A Great Gladstonian Demonstration Was Held At The Corn...

Edinburgh, on Tuesday, to hear an address of Lord Rosebery's ; but the most important feature of it was probably the letter from Mr. Gladstone to Mr. Gray, which was read before......

The Parnell Commission Have Had Mr. Soames, Mr. Houston, And

Mr. Pigott before them this week, and the evidence has been in a high degree exciting, and even sensa- tional. It has reached at last the question of the Parnell and Egan......

Lord Rosebery Began His Speech By Referring With Rueful...

to the burden of responsibility which he had undertaken in accepting the chairmanship of the London County Council,— a responsibility, however, which for the nonce he had......

Lord Rosebery Was Almost As Facetious About Mr. Chamber-...

visit to Scotland, as if he had been a dull Scotchman, proud of a single joke, of which he was determined to make the most exhaustive use. Mr. Chamberlain was declared to be......

Mr. W. H. Gladstone Is Suffering A Good Deal From

the =- comfortable results of his father's severe denunciations of the policy of eviction. On the Hawarden estate he has been exercising, apparently in a very temperate and......