29 MARCH 1884, page 1

The Debate On The Second Reading Of The Franchise Bill

began on Monday in the House of Commons, Lord John Manners moving a resolution to the effect that the House declined to pass judgment on the Franchise Bill without seeing the......

The Coast Of The Red Sea Being Clear, It Remains

to attend to Khartoum. It is supposed that General Gordon is locked up there, but the facts hardly amount to so much. On the 8th inst., large bodies of Arabs were threatening......

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News Of The Week.

W E deeply regret to note a statement, in the evening papers of FA:lay, of the death of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, at Cowles, on the 28th inst. The sad event must have been......

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Mr. Bright Replied To Lord John Manners, Twitting Him With

not venturing to oppose the Bill,—which no one, he said, ven- tured to oppose,—and with taking the oblique coarse of express- lag a desire to see first the details of another......

General Graham Has Finished His Work. As Osman Bigna Still

threatened Suakim, and collected forces to attack it, it was necessary to give him a final defeat. The General, therefore, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday marched to......

It Was Supposed On Wednesday That Lord E. Fitzmaurice Had

pledged the Government to an expedition from Suakim to Berber, but this was not the case. What happened was this. Lord R. Churchill raised another Egyptian debate on Tues- day......