28 AUGUST 1886, page 2

Mr. Morley Replied In A Speech Which Was Very Bitter

against the Government for not proposing coercion, though it would apparently have been much more bitter if they had proposed it. He treated the declarations of the Government......

The Only Amusing Passage In Sir William Harcourt's Speech...

his comparison of the Government, in its fancy for Com- missions, to the artist of whom Canning tells us, who held that the only thing that it was worth the while of a......

On Monday, Mr. Labouchere Opened The Adjourned Debate In A

speech of the usual kind, in which there was one fair joke, the remark that if Mr. Chamberlain did not pause in his down- ward career, the next thing we should hear of him would......

On The Same Day, Sir Michael Hicks-beach Described The...

of the Government as a sober policy, a policy intended to give Ireland a rest after the policy of constant agitation. In defending his Commissions, which were made the occasion......

The Debate On The Address Was Resumed Yesterday Week By

Mr. T. P. O'Connor, who made a good slashing speech of a commonplace sort, charging the Belfast riots on Lord Randolph Churchill, treating the large Liberal vote given for......

After A Few Unimportant Speeches, Lord Hartington Rose...

a speech of great force and weight. He pointed out that the Parnellite Party could not be expected to wish for the restoration of social order in Ireland till they had gained......

Mr. Plunket, In His Short Reply, Stated That In The

last four months the number of evictions had greatly decreased; that in 1885, of 3,127 tenants legally evicted, only 600 were actually evicted, all the others being reinstated.......

On Tuesday, Mr. Parnell Spoke. It Was A Speech Of

the usual kind,—cold, clear, sardonic. He held that with three more weeks' time for agitation, the Government would have had a majority, instead of incurring a defeat ; but as......