5 MARCH 1881, page 1

News Of The Week.

T HE usual news of disaster from South Africa. General Colley decided, under the circumstances detailed elsewhere, to seize Majuba Hill, a position from which, with artillery,......

The Country Loses In Sir George Colley An Officer Of

fine char- acter, much ability, and terrible rashness, the result of extreme iielf-confidence, acting on a temperament to which fear was un- known. He respected his enemies as......

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The Standard has been fortunate in its agents in South Africa. Its correspondent with General Colley performed a really splendid feat,—he joined in the advance of the troops,......

In The House Of Lords, The Coercion Bill Led To

no division, Lord Beaconsfield giving it his support, but tracing the neces- sity of it to three causes,—a series of bad harvests, the stimulus given by the Liberal party at the......

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The Principal Irish Coercion Bill,—officially Called "the...

and Property Bill,"—passed its third reading in the House of Commons on Friday week, and passed the House of Lords on Wednesday last, and is now law, having virtually occupied......

Lord Hartington's Statement On Monday That The Bill For...

Ireland would be taken up at once, and urgency asked for it, but that this urgency measure would have to be interrupted for the purpose of taking certain votes in Supply, for......