3 NOVEMBER 1883, page 1

The Speaking Has Begun With A Rush. Sir Henry James

has spoken at Dumfries, Mr. Courtney at Liskeard, and Mr. Stan- hope at Perth; Lord Richard Grosvenor and Mr. Osborne Morgan at Carnarvon ; Lord Salisbury twice at Reading ; Sir......

M. Ferry Will Now, It Is Believed, Ask A Large

vote of credit. He distinctly stated in the debate that it was the intention of his Government to seize Sontay and Bacninh, the two fortresses on the Songkoi, and that if China......

News Of The Week.

T HE week has been marked by what may prove a grave misfortune for France. The Chamber, by a vote of more than two to one, in a very full house, has affirmed the policy of......

The Defence Of The Government Was Entrusted Solely To M.

Challemel-Laconr and M. Ferry. The line taken by the former was that France had originally entered Anam fairly, to punish a massacre of Roman Catholics, which is true ; that......

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Lord Salisbury Boasted At Reading On Tuesday That Unless You

rise to the revolutionary point, you cannot abolish the House of Lords except with its own consent; and that though fear of death has caused many strange vagaries, it is not......

He Declared That Mr. Gladstone's Government Had...

its first object to discourage and dishearten the English race all over the world, and to fill all who are opposed to them with "wild and unlawful hopes." The Government were......