26 OCTOBER 1889, page 1

At The Assembly Rooms In The Belle Vue Gardens, Man-

chester, Mr. Balfour on Saturday last addressed an audience reckoned to consist of some ten or twelve thousand persons. Earlier in the day he presented a requisition to Mr.......

Great Expectations Had Been Formed As To A Speech To

be 'delivered by Mr. Gladstone at Southport. It was said that a council of his colleagues had been held at Hawarden, and that he had decided to say something of importance,......

To The Question : Has The Irish Policy Of The

Government been a success P—Mr. Balfour gave no uncertain answer. " Every expectation which in my most sanguine moments I ever ventured to frame with regard to the results, the......

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Mr. Labouchere Has Been Stamping Scotland For The Last Few

days, saying always the same things,—that the people are Radical, that there will be a Radical majority at the elections, that then there must be a Radical Ministry, and that a......

News Of The Week.

T ORD SPENCER on Thursday made a speech at Stockton, 4 which was remarkable because it does contain one hint as to the substance of the next Home-role Bill. He said, while......

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