5 MARCH 1887, page 2

Mr. Sexton First Wanted To Confine The Closure To Questions

arising out of the first or second Order of the Day,—a proposal negatived by 209 votes to 83. Mr. Parnell's amendment,— moved in his absence by Mr. Molloy,—asking for an......

Monday Night Was Expended By The House Of Commons On

the Supplementary Estimates. They needed discussion, and one or two items may have needed excision, though Mr. Labou- chere's selection, a vote of 227,000 for a Consulate house......

We Are A Mean People Sometimes. It Appears That The

Queen intends to expend a part of the Jubilee money to be presented to her by the ladies of England, on an equestrian statue of the Prince Consort, to be placed in Windsor Park.......

On Tuesday, When The Debate Should Have Been Resumed, Mr.

Howell interrupted it by a motion for adjournment to call atten- tion to a definite matter of urgent public importance,—namely, alleged acts of corruption by the Corporation of......

Sir William Harcourt Publishes In The Times Of Thursday A

long-winded but most artful letter, intended to trip up the Government when it proposes to strengthen the law in Ireland. He tells the public that Lord Salisbury assented to the......

The Irish Obstruction To Supply On Thursday Night Was...

on in a very fierce, not to say furious fashion, and had not the Government, with praiseworthy firmness, organised the House for a night sitting, the vote for the Irish......

The Telegram From Bombay Of March 3rd About Afghan Affairs,

which has even affected the Stock Exchange, strikes us as nonsensical. It states that the Ameer is raising a new army, that he is drilling boys of ten and impressing boys of......

The Charge Made By Mr. Howell Against The Corpora- Tion

of London is a serious one. As yet it rests upon little but assertion; but he affirms that the Corporation spent a large sum of money-220,000—in manufacturing expressions of......

Mr. Gladstone Has Written A Characteristic Letter To The...

of the Baptist on the subject of Disestablishment in Wales. The Baptist had, we should infer, declared that Wales was ripe for Disestablishment, and that it is very wrong in Mr.......