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Owing To The Number Of Important Parliamentary Debates...

taken place since our lee, issue, we cannot attempt to summarise the remainder of the Tariff Reform discussion, concluded on Friday week by a division in which the Govern- ment......

Mr. Balfour Pointed Out That The Duke Of Wellington, Lord

Derby, and others had yielded when they felt that public opinion was against them. Had the present House of Lords behaved differently P Mr. Asquith had talked as though the......

The Amendment To The Address Calling Attention To The...

of lawlessness in Ireland and the ineffectual policy of the Government was moved in the Commons on Tuesday by Lord Percy. After dwelling on the rapid increase of crime in the......

Mr. Churchill Was Pleased To Continue That It Was Well

known that "no Protective effects, or the abuses which creep in behind Protective duties, could possibly follow from such use,"—an allegation which we absolutely deny. Those......

For Our Own Part, We Feel Bound To Say That

the longer and more closely we study the question, the stronger becomes our feeling that Lord Morley is running a very groat risk in insisting upon adding a native to the......

Mr. J. It Campbell Denounced Mr. Birtell's Policy As That

of a political coward. He prosecuted some of the ignorant peasants who acted on the advice given them, but he tiered not interfere with the instigators,—]iis honourable friends......

On Monday In The Commons An Amendment To The Address

was moved by Ponsonby, the Liberal Member for Stirling Burghs, calling on the Government so to restrict the veto of the Lords that the will of the popular House should prevail......

The Debate Was Resumed On Wednesday. Mr. Balfour...

• Dillon's notion that the Unionists had been coquetting with the Nationalists over the Fiscal amend- ment, and strongly demurred to the Irish Attorney. General's comparison of......