28 APRIL 1883, page 1

News Of The Week.

as imposed for political purposes, and for political par- , poses only, the Peers, as a loyal body, being then wholly exempted from it; and that it was not till the feud between......

Sir E. Watkin Was The First Witness Examined Before The

Channel Tunnel Commission, and certainly showed that he bad the courage, not to say the audacity, of his opinions. He de- clared that 250 trains each way would be run daily......

After This Speech, The Debate Sank Into Insignificance....

Leighton deprecated the pulpit eloquence of Mr. Gladstone,—unfortunately, eloquence like his is extremely rare in the pulpit or out of it, and Mr. Stanley Leighton is no judge......

In The Desultory Debate Which Ensued, Baron H. De Worms,

who appeared to triumph in the success won by the Liberals for his own faith, the Jewish, insolently suggested to Mr. Gladstone to start a new Midlothian campaign, of which the......

Then Mr. Gladstone Rose, And It Was At Once Evident

that he was at his highest point of power, and that his mastery of the Rousts had never been more complete. The central point of his speech was the mischief, nay, the danger, of......

The Government Has Completed Its Arrangements For The...

a Ministry of Agriculture. An Agricultural Com- mittee of Privy Cowncil will be formed, with a Vice-President in charge, who, it is intended, shall always be the Chancellor of......

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