29 MAY 1880, page 2

Private And Demi-official Telegrams Have Been Received In...

that civil war has broken out in Burmah, and that trade beyond the frontier has stopped. No details are known, but it is believed that the insurgents raise the claim of the......

Then Arose A Great And Dissonant Chorus Of Approbation And

reprobation. The dispute on the Prime Minister's amendment was between those who held, with Mr. Gladstone, that this was a judicial proceeding, in which it was questionable how......

Lord Selborne On Thursday Introduced The Burials Bill Of The

Government into the House of Lords, in a speech of very great ability, in which he showed how impossible even the Con- servatives had found it to reject this measure of relief......

Yesterday Week, Mr. Bradlaugh, M.p. For Northampton,...

the table of the House of Commons to take the oath of allegiance ; whereupon Sir H. Drummond Wolff intervened, and objected to the oath being taken by Mr. Brad- laugh, when the......

We Have Stated Elsewhere At Some Length The Provisions Of

the new Bill by which Prince Bismarck hopes to obtain abso- lute power to persecute the Roman Catholic priesthood, or favour them, at his discretion. It is in principle an......

A Meeting Of Protestants Was Held In The City Hall,

Glasgow, on Monday, to protest against the appointments of Roman Catholics, like Lord Ripon and Lord Kenmare, to high office ; and resolutions were passed declaring these......

To Make The Vote Of The Liberals Still More Secure,

Prince Bismarck has published his letters to his Ambassador at Rome, Prince Reuss, and the latter's report of conversations with Cardinal Jacobini. The drift of these papers......

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.......