25 MAY 1878, page 2

The Leaders Of Both Parties Are Rather Remiss In Their

conduct of the business of the House. On Monday night the great debate very nearly fell through in the dinner-hour. The Speaker was just putting the question, when Mr.......

The Majority For Government Was; Nevertheless, 121 ;—for...

for Lord Harlington, 226. If, as something in one of the speeches on Thursday night suggested, the Govern-. ment had suspended temporarily five of the Ten Commandmenth, and Lord......

In The Division Of Thursday Night, Mr. Newdegate Was The

only Conservative voting for Lord Harlington, though a few others appear (like Sir A. Gordon) to have abstained from voting altogether. Of the Liberals who voted for the Govern-......

The Task Of Reply On Monday Was Confided To Sir

M. Hicks- Beach and Mr. E. Stanhope, the new Under-Secretary for India. Sir Michael argued that the conduct of the Opposition in the Upper House in avoiding a division showed......

In The Commons The Debate Was Opened On Monday Night

by Lord Harlington, in a rather tedious though weighty speech, in which he showed from several precedents that both parties had repeatedly admitted that foreign troops could not......

On Thursday, The Home Secretary (mr. Cross) Resumed The...

in a very lame and lumbering speech, in which he dwelt most emphatically on the need for secrecy at the time the measure was resolved on, and declared that information had been......

In The House Of Commons On Tuesday Night, Mr. Fawcett

opened the debate with a vigorous speech, insisting on the enor- mous political consequences claimed by the Tories themselves for the act which had been thus done without the......