2 MARCH 1878, page 2

President Hayes, In Spite Of His Financial Secretary, Mr....

and the majority of his Cabinet, decided to veto the Silver Bill. In his Message, which was sent to Congress on the 28th ult., he declares that it would be a breach of faith to......

Sir Charles Dilke Seconded The Motion In A Very Finished

speech,. in which he appealed to the wide suffrages under which the German and French Parliaments are elected as yielding legislative Assem- blies quite in sympathy with the......

Rustchuk Was Occupied On The 20th Ult. By The Russians—

who thus obtain a complete control of the passage of the Danube, over which an iron bridge will immediately be laid. On the day after, the evacuation of Erzeroum, which......

We Regret Greatly To Perceive That The Meeting Is To

be repeated on Sunday, the 10th, and think the leaders of the workmen belonging to the Peace Party entirely ill-advised. if it is necessary to show that the body of the people......

Mr. Lowe, Of Course, Spoke Against The Motion, Hammering...

at the old ground that the new electors, if they knew their own power, as they soon would, might combine so as to outvote all the other classes,—an argument which, so far as it......

Sir William Harcourt On Wednesday Published A Long But...

reasoned letter in the Times upon the " alarm and humiliation " felt in England at the course of events in the East. He does not feel either at all, and does not believe the......

Mr. Plunkett, The Conservative Member For West...

a remarkable and carefully-finished speech in the same sense as Mr. Lowe, though of course not so reactionary ; and later in the evening Mr. Goschen defended his well - known......

Mr. Trevelyan Brought On His Resolutions In Favour Of House-

hold suffrage in the counties yesterday week, in a vigorous speech in which he declared himself quite in favour of disfranchising all voters so illiterate as to be unable to......

The Result Of The Peace Meeting Of Sunday In Hyde

Park was not such as to encourage similar " demonstrations." From 80,000 to 120,000 persons attended, but they were chiefly spectators, and the actual " meetingers " were......