29 JANUARY 1881, page 2

It Had Become Necessary That The Lord-advocate For...

have a seat in Parliament, and no other being available, his father, the senior Member for Edinburgh, resigned in his favour. Constituencies never quite like these family......

The Debate Of Thursday Night Was Relieved By A Very

able speech of Mr. Labouchere's against coercion, which rested its case chiefly on the untrustworthiness of the returns of agrarian crime, as illustrated by the attempt to make......

Sir G. P. Colley, Commanding In Natal,has Taken A Very

bold, very creditable, and highly dangerous course. Finding that the small British garrisons in the Transvaal were surrendering one by one—as• at Lydenberg, where a company of......

The Roman Catholic Bishops Of Ireland Have Issued A Still

stronger collective manifesto on the Land question. They resolved, in meeting at Dublin on the 27th inst. :—" 1. That inasmuch as we are charged by Almighty God, not only with......

On Tuesday, Mr. Gladstone Moved That All Other Business Be

postponed to the discussion of Mr. Forster's Bills—for a dis- arming Bill is to follow the more important Bill—which led to a Session of twenty-two hours, at the end of which,......

The State Trial In Dublin Ended, On Tuesday, In A

failure.. The evidence as to some of the traversers strikes Englishmen as irresistible, and as to two of them was scarcely denied, and the Judge, though carefully impartial,......

The Latest Report From Eastern Europe Is That The Great

Powers have all agreed to another negotiation as to the Greek frontier,—at Constantinople. It is not to be a Conference, but a kind of collective negotiation with the Porte. The......

General Skobeleff Has Carried The Fortified Position Of...

The Turcomans defended it with splendid gallantry, making charge after charge upon the Russian lines ; but they could not cope with science,.aud on the 24th inst., their......