29 MAY 1880, page 1

There Was A Sharp Skirmish In The Lords On Friday

week about Mr. Gladstone and Austria. Lord de l'Isle and Dudley wanted explanations, which Lord Granville gave, emphasising the point that Mr. Gladstone, at Pennicuik, had......

Professor Robertson Smith Has Achieved A Very Conspicuous...

the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland. On Friday mornin g , Sir Henry Moncrieff's motion, which would have deprived Professor Robertson Smith of his professorial......

Lord Beaconsfield Followed, In A Speech Intended To...

foreign policy of the Government by anticipation. He described Mr. Gladstone's speech in Midlothian as "the pas- sionate expression of a vindictive memory" and one most injuri-......

Sir William Harcourt Is Now Member For Derby, In Place

of Mr. Plimsoll, and it is even proposed that in case a petition results in unseating Mr. Hall for Oxford, Mr. Plimsoll should contest Oxford, which would be very much like a......

On Tuesday, Sir W. Harcourt Returned Thanks For His...

and treated his union with the constituency of Derby as a most romantic affair, the most singular part of it being that it had been brought about "by the former wife." Here Mr.......

News Of The Week • T He Latest Telegrams From Afghanistan

all point to the con- tinuance of negotiations between the Government of India and Abdurrahman Khan. It is affirmed that he has been offered the Ameership without restrictions,......

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