29 OCTOBER 1887, page 2

We Often Wonder Whether Mr. Gladstone Considers It His Duty

to follow carefully the Irish speeches of the Parnellite Party. He said, in his speech last week at Derby, of the Parnellites :— "As they have obtained greater power, their......

Lord Spencer Is Evidently Greatly Tried In His Mind By

Mr. Gladstone's recent speeches, and their obvious tendency to promote social anarchy in Ireland. In a long speech which he delivered at Edinburgh on Tuesday, he was, though he......

Mr. Gladstone, Who, After His Speeches At Nottingham And...

was, we regret to learn, confined to his room for a day or more at Sudbury Hall, the house of Lord Vernon, from a slight chill, resumed his journey to Ripon on Tuesday, and......

Lord R. Churchill, In A Speech At Stockton On Monday,

pro- tested strongly against what he called the sentimental doctrine that whenever the people resisted the police, the police should give way. That doctrine was fatal to law,......

Mr. Chamberlain Is Evidently Roused By The New Phase Of

the contest between the Government and the Opposition. On Tues- day, he spoke in Islington with a vehemence which shows that he at least has abandoned all hope of......

At Ripon, Mr. Gladstone Described The Government As Them-...

the law-breakers. So far as we can judge, he refuses to regard the Irish Crimes Act of last Session as law at all, and all enforcement of it he appears to regard as......

Mr. Montague Cookson, Originally A Home-ruler, Has Been...

Ireland, and has come to the conclusion that the National League is an atrocious tyranny. In Cork, Limerick, and Clare, it is the true Government, the Government which is......

We Do Not Understand The Importance Given To The Case

of Mr. Wilfrid Blunt. That gentleman, a poet, a scholar, and a wealthy man, but altogether wrongheaded in politics, con- sidered the conduct of the Government in proclaiming a......