5 AUGUST 1876, page 2

In The House Of Lords, Lord Granville, In A Speech

occa- sionally amusing—as when he stated that the £100,000,000 we had lent to Turkey had had precisely the same effect as giving rum to savages—maintained that the object of the......

The Annual Dinner To Her Majesty's Ministers Came Off At

the Mansion House on Wednesday, but Mr. Disraeli and Lard Derby were both absent. Lord Salisbury therefore responded for her Majesty's Ministers, and told his audience that the......

The Long-expected Debates On The Eastern Policy Of The...

ment came off in both Houses on Monday night. We have analysed the discussion in the Commons—which was principally remarkable for an exhaustive and most statesmanlike speech......

There Has Been A Distinct Rise In The Price Of

silver during the week, and it is now 51d. the ounce, while the bills drawn by the India Office on Calcutta were assigned at 1s. 7fd. the rupee. It is believed that this rise is......

Lord Salisbury Also Endeavoured To Extenuate The Conduct...

Turks in Bulgaria, though with much more attention to English opinion than the Premier has shown. He quite admitted that Eng- land would condemn such crimes, but denied that the......

The Bravo Inquiry Has Reached The Nineteenth Day, And Still

there is no definite result, except the destruction of individual characters. Mrs. Cox, in her six days' cross-examination, ad- mitted that Mrs. Bravo's intimacy with Dr. Gully......

Lord Camarvon Made His Promised Statement On Barbadoes...

Tuesday, in a capital though, to us, unsatisfactory speech, which we have carefully analysed elsewhere. He acquitted the Governor of anything but indiscretion in using phrases......

Lord Derby's Speech In Reply Was Principally Remarkable...

He admitted that Europe ought to settle the future condition of Turkey. He admitted "that there had been, on the part of the Turkish Government, great and grievous faults of......

Mr. Jenkins On Friday Week Raised A Debate On Barbadoes,

which was made unimportant on Tuesday by Lord Carnarvon's statement, but we cannot pass over one singular remark from Mr. Lowther. Mr. Pope Hennessy finds that in this island......