25 DECEMBER 1880, page 2

Most Disquieting News Has Been Received From The Cape. The

Boers of the Transvaal have carried out the threat made through Mr. Joubert a month ago, have held a mass meeting at Heidelberg, attended by 5,000 men, and have proclaimed a Re-......

Mr. Shaw Lefevre Made An Admirable Speech At Accrington '

this day week. He contrasted the foreign policy of the present with that of the late Government, and maintained that it was founded on wholly different principles, and was as......

Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, Speaking Yesterday Week To The...

Club, called attention to a sentence uttered by Sir Wilfrid Lawson, in which he bad said, "Rather than see my fellow-subjects in Ireland drenched in blood and crushed down by......

Mr. Grant Duff Was Very Graphic In His Description Of

what the Empire means of which the pseudo-Imperialists talk so much at random :—" The blood-and-thunder school of Im- perialists never seem to comprehend what that Empire is......

The Times Of Thursday Contains An Article Which Suggests...

the Government do not expect Lord Ripon to remain in India. He would be most unwise to do so, for he has evidently one of those constitutions to which a " chill " in the tropics......

A Letter On The Ritualist Troubles, Written By The Bishop

of Manchester to the Rev. John Bone, Vicar of St. Thomas's, Lancaster, and published in last Tuesday's Times, hardly shows Dr. Fraser's usual grasp of the difficulties of a......

Mr. Grant Duff Made At Peterhead On Monday One Of

that brilliant series of speeches which, if collected, would constitute a most epigrammatic Liberal comment on the politics of the last twenty years. -Ile gave a very high......