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Banishment To The House Of Peers Has Had One Good

effect upon Sir Stafford Northcote. It has diminished hi fear of making a joke in public. By nature one of the most numorous of men, he has been remarkable among English public......

Upon Private Property In Land. He Wanted, In The First

place, to restore tribal ownership in the Highlands, declaring what is no doubt historically true, that originally the clan, and not the chid, owned the soil, and desiring......

Mr. Goschen Is Clearly Not Going To Desert The Liberals.

His speech at St. Leonard's on Friday week on behalf of Mr. lades- wick, though moderate, and in some passages cautionary—for example, he deprecated making any promises which......

The Effect Of Mr. Gladstone's Manifesto Is Already...

The Whigs call it vague, the Radicals over-cautious, and the Tories crafty; but all alike admit that it has healed fends. Mr. Goschen praises it ; Mr. Chamberlain, though he......

The Russian Government Is Most Anxious To Convince The World

that it had no part in the Roumelian revolution. The Russian General in Bulgaria has resigned, all Russian officers have thrown up their commissions, and the Russian Press has......

Mr. Chamberlain, Speaking On Thursday In The Victoria...

made an important statement. He had, he said, pro- posed three things—(l), that taxation should be readjusted so as to produce equality of sacrifice among all classes,—that is,......

There Is A Rumour, Which Has Even Been Discussed In

im- portant journals, that the Elections will be postponed until next year. We do not believe a word of it, for this self-evident reason. There was a clear understanding between......

Mr. Stanhope At Gateshead Was Equally Vague. After A Few

sharp sentences condemning the Liberal vacillations in Egypt, and a declaration that Lord Salisbury would not leave that country until the ends of its occupation had been......

The Latest Accounts From Madrid All Contain The Statement...

both Germany and Spain agree to submit the question of the ownership of the Carolinas to the Pope for arbitration. The word to be employed is, however, " mediation." The......