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The Church Defence Association Held A Meeting At The...

Society's Rooms, the Broad Sanctuary, on Wednesday, to protest against the amendment carried last week by a majority of sixteen in the Lords in relation to the Burials Bill. The......

Mr. F. H. O'donnell, Some Time M.p. For Galway, And

Hono- rary Secretary of the Confederation of Home-rule, was elected for Dungarvan on Saturday, by a majority of nineteen over Mr. Henry Matthews, Q.C., the numbers being,—for......

The Tower Hamlets Radical Association Having Addressed To...

a letter of thanks for his Birmingham speech, and requested him to assume the lead of the Radical party, Mr. Gladstone has replied in a letter virtually disclaiming any wish to......

We Have Always Said That On A Question Like The

Sunday closing of public-houses, the local opinion of a country ought to have the greatest weight; for it is a case in which the grievance either way,— whether in imposing a......

Mr. Lowe, On Thursday, Raised The Question Of The Status

of Indian Judges, and fought hard for their irresponsibility to the Executive, especially on the ground that the independent adminis- tration of justice was the only consolation......

The Vote Of The French Senate On The Proposal To

dissolve was taken on the 22nd, and the request of the President was granted by 150 to 130, a majority slightly greater than was expected, and caused by the adhesion of four or......

Mr. Ward Hunt Has Gone To Homburg, With So Bad

ea attack of gout that his friends fear he may have to retire from the Cabinet. Such a necessity would be much re- gretted in the House of Commons, where Mr. Hunt is, a......

The House Of Commons On Tuesday Passed A Very Important

resolution on Church patronage. Mr. Leatham, in a speech in which he showed that 2,000 livings were now in the market, and denounced the sale of Church patronage in any form,......