31 MAY 1884, page 1

The Secretary For Ireland On Tuesday, In A Speech Of

singular clearness, described the plan of the Government for facilitating the sale of land to the peasantry. He described land in Ireland as almost unsaleable, the " block "......

No News Of Importance Has Arrived This Week From Egypt,

but our readers will remark a certain change of tone in telegrams and letters. It is now declared that the Mudir of Dongola has conquered his rebels, that Berber has not fallen,......

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News Of The Week.

M R. BOURKE, the Baron de Worms, and others, raised a discussion on Tuesday which drew an important statement Trom Mr. Gladstone, the pith of which is this :—The Conference on......

M. De Leaseps Has Won. Wise In His Generation, He

saw that if his company continued to overcharge British trade and keep out British Directors, it would ultimately lose control of the Suez Canal. He arrived, therefore, at an......

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We Have Given Our Opinion Of The Proposal Elsewhere. It

is entirely favourable to the principle and to most details; but the intervention of the Local Board might - prove both cumbrous and ineffectual. Local Boards in Ireland are......

A Rumour Has Reached London, Unauthenticated, But...

that the French Government has rejected the British financial proposals. If so, Lord Granville's hands will be untied.......