28 JANUARY 1888, page 2

A Great Confusion Of Political Tongues Arose On...

a confusion of tongues which we have had so often before, that the difficulty is to attend duly to the various speakers. Mr. Justin McCarthy, at Leamington, explained to his......

New South Wales Has Selected January 26th As The Day

for her centenary, because on that day 1788 Captain Phillip took possession of the Colony, and, indeed, of the whole island- continent, in the name of King George. Thursday,......

Sir Michael Hicks-beach Spoke Again Yesterday Week At...

Wiltshire seat, and remarked that "some very wise individuals" had observed'in his Bristol speech "some extraordinary change" to which they had given different names. He could......

The Home Secretary Addressed His Constituents At Birming-...

Tuesday, reminding his hearers that Mr. Gladstone's Irish measures had not only been withdrawn by him and his friends without any explanation as to the form in which they would......

In A Liberal Unionist Meeting At Worcester, Lord...

evidence as to the liberty of the Press in Ireland by quoting the choice epithets applied to Mr. Balfour by United Ireland. "Bloody Balfour," "Bombe the little," "lily-livered......

We See With Much Amazement And Regret That Many Of

the teachers at the University of Cambridge are disposed to refuse women the degrees of that University, and, as we infer, even to regret as a mistake the course which has been......

Miss Emily Davies, In An Able And Thoughtful Letter To

Wed- nesday's Times, deals with the various objections to admitting women to ordinary degrees with very great force. She points out that for the most part these objections apply......

Sir George Trevelyan Also Delivered One Of His Panegyrics On

Liberalism and invectives against Liberal Unionism at Pem- broke, in which he testified that the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists are now working side by side with......