24 AUGUST 1889, page 2

The Official Correspondence In Regard To Cyprus Is Most...

Judging by what English rule has done for Indian annexations, it was only reasonable for men to imagine that whoever lost by our taking the island out of the hands of Turkey,......

In Relation To Turkish Armenia, Mr. Labouchere Was As Eager

apparently to disavow all sympathy with the wishes of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bryce, as he was to prove that Lord Salisbury feels the deepest hatred for the French Republic. Mr.......

On Wednesday, The Government Introduced A Bill Concerned...

pension question, and on Thursday withdrew it. The measure, which Mr. Goschen declares will be pressed to a settlement next year, deals with superannuation in the Civil Service,......

Mr. Labouchere Having Been At One Time Employed In...

duties under our Foreign Office, appears to make it his special duty to assail the Government on the subject of its foreign relations. He has been very busy this week, par-......

As Usual At The End Of A Session, Mr. Balfour

has been compelled this week to defend his administration of the Irish Secretaryship at length against long-winded speeches from Mr. Sexton and others, who have reiterated all......

Mr. Gray Has Brought In A Bill, In Lieu Of

that of the Government, but we may safely assume that it has no chance at all of being carried this Session. It proposes to make the rent directly chargeable with the tithe, and......

On Monday, Mr. Cossham, Mr. Storey, Mr. Biggar, And Others,

who had opposed the Irish Light Railways Bill in the Committee, tried to get the House to recommit it, in order that amendments should be moved which Mr. Salt, the chairman, had......

Sir William Harcourt Elicited From The Speaker Last...

that, in his opinion, it would not be in conformity with precedent to move in Committee amendments altogether altering the character of the Tithes Bill, after rejecting an......