29 MARCH 1884, page 2

The Division List Is Almost As Impressive As The Bareness

of the majority itself. In the minority voted men like Mr. Carington (M.P. for Bucks), Mr. Leveson-Gower, Sir Charles Forster, Mr. Howard (M.P. for East Cumberland), Colonel......

The Debate Of Thursday Was Opened By Mr. Raikes, Who

spoke with his usual acrimony. He made it a great offence that the Prime Minister was absent, and called the Government a provisional Government and a " headless "......

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......

The French Chamber Has Had A Two-days Debate On Mada-

gascar, ending in a resolution, passed by 450 to 32 votes, "to uphold all the rights of France in the island." The Premier, however, in the speech which attracted this majority......

Later On In The Evening Mr. Ritchie Expressed His Approval

of the principle of the Bill, and his intention of voting for the amendment of Lord John Manners, two very inconsistent mental or rather moral states which he did not take much......

The Huntingdon Election Of Yesterday Week Showed A Very...

advance in the strength of the Liberal Party in that borough since the last contest in 1873, though Sir Robert Peel carried his election by the narrow Conservative majority of......

Yesterday Week, Mr. Willis's Motion Affirming That The...

Bishops in the House of Lords is a great hindrance to their work in the Church, and prejudicial to the commonwealth, was discussed in the House of Commons, and defeated by a......

Then Mr. Chamberlain Rose, And In An Effective Speech...

that the Conservative party, as a whole, declined to pronounce the Franchise Bill either good or bad, either too strong or too weak, and declared only that they could not......