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In The Speech At Dudley, Sir S. Northcote Dealt With

the charge against the Government that it has ridden rough-shod over the privileges of the House of Commons, which, he said, was disproved by the continued confidence displayed......

In His Chief Speech At Birmingham, The Chancellor Of The

Ex- chequer represented himself as engaged in a sort of game at lawn- tennis across the garden-wall dividing him from the Opposition, in the mode recently suggested by Punch ;......

The Hapsburgs Are Going For Once To Overcome Hungarian...

tion. Herr Tisza, the Premier, hinted to a private meeting of his fol- lowers, held the day before the Pesth Parliament met, that within two years Bosnia and Herzegovina would......

The Accountants And Solicitors Ordered To Report Upon The...

of the City of Glasgow Bank published their report on the evening of Friday week. It is almost appalling in its frankness. The managers of the Bank had treated bad debts to the......

The Anti-socialist Bill In Germany Has Become Law, And Has

been immediately applied. The President of Police has already prohibited four associations,—the " Association for the Protection of the Labouring Population of Berlin," the "......

The Duke Of Cambridge On Thursday Delivered A Speech To

Company of Haberdashers, at Gresham Street, which must sound ominous to Sir Stafford Northcote. He maintained that as England would not submit to be anything but a great nation,......

Sir Stafford Northcote Denies That He Has Been Stumping The

Midland Counties this week on behalf of the Government, so we must assume that he has not been stumping them, but only going through one or two of them, making as many speeches......

It Is Announced, In A Renter's Telegram Of October 24th,

that the Sultan has signed the scheme of reform for Asia Minor pro- posed by Lord Salisbury. Under this scheme, " Europeans " may be appointed inspectors of finance, of the......