24 JANUARY 1880, page 2

Sir Michael Hicks-beach's Sardonic Reference To The...

extending household suffrage to the counties as one which would involve a redistribution of seats that must extin- tinguish the claims of Tewkesbury to rank as a distinct Par-......

The Austrian Ministers Declare Themselves Highly...

in Bosnia. Order, they say, has been re- stored, the most complete religious equality has been esta- blished, and the frightful system of farming the taxes, and - especially the......

Mr. Bright, On The Same Occasion, Made A Very Fine,

though not sparkling speech. He inquired why he was asked to join the Liberal party in founding a club, and answered it by a review of the progress of the last fifty years. Time......

The Nation States, And The Facts Prove, That Mr. Parnell's

mission to America is, as a political enterprise, a failure. The American people are quite willing to relieve Ireland, but not to interfere in her internal affairs. They think......

The Colonial Secretary, Sir Michael Hicks-beach,...

Gloucestershire constituents at Tewkesbury on Wednesday, in a speech the chief importance of which was his declaration that, so far as the Government were concerned, they did......

The German Government Is Still Dissatisfied With Its...

Upon the plea that other nations have increased their forces, Prince Bismarck has placed a Bill before the Federal Council, increasing the German Army by eleven new regi- ments......

The Gewerk Verein, The Organ Of The German Trades Socie-

ties, declares that the famine in Silesia is not to be wondered. at ; that the condition of hired agricultural labourers in Ger- many has escaped attention, but that it is......

Sir William Harcourt Defended, In An Equally Amusing...

practice of political prophecy, as the ordinary work and duty of statesmen, showing that it is nothing but the habit of inferring by experience of the past to the probabilities......