31 MAY 1884, page 2

On The Same Day Sir Stafford Northeete Spoke In Marylebone

at a meeting held under the presidency of Lord John manning, —both Lord John Manners and Sir Stafford Northeote keeping within the limits of moderate party feeling far more......

Sir Michael Hicks-beach Delivered One Of His Bitter Dia-...

against the Government at the Philharmonic Hall at Tewkesbury, on Wednesday. He said that Mr. Gladstone was a statesman who only required to be properly tackled in order to be......

It Is Announced Demi-officially That The Treaty Between...

and Portugal for the government of the basin of the Congo, from its mouth up to Stanley Pool, has been given up. Nobody liked it, not even the Portuguese, who got five or sir......

Mr. Gladstone Pointed Out That It Was Absolutely...

agree to Colonel Stanley's amendment ; since, if passed, it would enable the House of Lords, by the simple device of throwing out the Redistribution Bill, to defeat as long as......

On Monday Much More Progress Was Made. Dr. Cameron Moved

an amendment on Clause 2, the effect of which would be to do away with the present system of voting in three-cornered constituencies like Glasgow ; but Mr. Gladstone, having......

The Latest News From The Cape Is Grave, But Not,

that we see, alarming. The Boer immigrants into Zululand, with the con- sent of the Government of Pretoria, have declared Cetewayo's son, Dinizula, King of all Zululand outside......

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......

Yesterday Week, On The Resumption Of The Franchise Debate, A

great deal of Conservative pressure was put—in vain—on Colonel Stanley to induce him to postpone the amendment which would defer the operation of the Franchise Bill till after......

We Regret To Notice The Death Of Sir Bartle Frere.

We do not, it is true, believe in his statesmanship, his great powers being - impaired by immoderateness, by optimism, and by inability to understand that an official should......