25 FEBRUARY 1882, page 2

Sir Stafford Northcote's Reply Was Very Temperate, And,...

gave the impression of genuine personal convic- tion that closure of debate by a majority is really dangerous. He insisted that safeguards are of no use, because the popular......

Mr. E. Clarke, On Tuesday, Once More Introduced A Proposal,.

which is constantly made, that Bills which have passed the- second reading before the close of the Session should be re- sumed in the succeeding Session, at the stage of......

A Very Strange Incident Is Reported From Moscow, In A

tele- gram through Reuter, dated Berlin. It is affirmed that the Metropolitan of Moscow has addressed a letter to the Czar, urging him to come out from his seclusion in......

Mr. Gladstone, In Proposing On Monday The First Of The

New Rules of procedure,—that which empowers an absolute majority of the House, on the Speaker's expression of his belief that the general sense of the House is in favour of......

The Debate On The Report Of The Address Was Concluded

yes- terday week, after nine days' discussion of the subjects contained in it, the report being finally agreed to by 129 votes against 14. On this, the last night, the......

Mr. Barclay, Too (m.p. For Forfarshire), Openly Asserted...

distress was greatly due to the trammels on the tenant-farmers, whose improvements had been confiscated by their landlords; and that it was quite as impossible for farmers to......

In His Speech On The Resolution, The Prime Minister...

most eloquently all party motive, and declared that the sole object of the Government was to relieve the House from a most dangerous and discrediting position. He recalled the......

In The Debate Which Followed, Sir Charles Forster Made A

good speech for the Closure; Mr. Marriott a very clap-trap one• against it, in which he spoke of the reluctance one would feel to present a housebreaker with " a jemmy," though......