23 JANUARY 1886, page 1

The Debate On The Address In The Lords Is Not

worth con- densing. It was, as regards the question of the day, utterly unworthy of the occasion. The debaters on each side tried only to throw the blame on the opposite party.......

News Of The Week

• T HE secret of the Queen's Speech, which was delivered on Thursday, was much better kept than usual, the tone of its dominant sentences remaining unknown to the public until......

The Debate In The Commons Was Introduced By Very Common-

place speeches from Lord Curzon and Mr. Houldsworth, the mover and seconder of the Address, after which Mr. Gladstone made one of his most powerful speeches, giving warm support......

The Chancellor Of The Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks-beach,...

a lifeless speech, in which he denied that the experi- ment of governing without a Crimes Act in Ireland had been a failure, and yet had to concede that it was not a success,......

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Her Majesty Then Proceeds To The Burning Question Of The

hour in these words :—" I have seen with deep sorrow the renewal of the attempt to excite the people of Ireland to hos- tility against the Legislative Union between that country......

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