6 AUGUST 1881, page 2

Ayoub Khan Has, Of Course, Occupied Candahar,—entering It...

30th,—but there, for the time, he seems to be delaying, and it is possible that he will relapse into his idle mood. Abdur Rahman holds Khelat-i-Ghilzai, with one infantry and......

On Monday Mr. Parnell, Who Appears To Have Found That

he is thought remiss by the violent party in Ireland, got up a little " scene" on his own account, by persisting in demanding a night for the discussion of the arrests under the......

Lord Powerscourt Made A Telling Speech In Favour Of The

Bill, and Lord Fortescue a grudging one, admitting that the Bill was required,—while the Disturbance Bill, he said, was not,—by the public opinion of the country,—a view of the......

Lord Cariingford's Speech Has Been Described As...

reported, nothing more effective in the way of pure exposition,—both as regards principles and the modes of embodying them,—has yet been uttered, even by Mr. Glad- stone ; and......

Fiord Lansdowne's Speech Was, Perhaps, The Most Skilful...

the Bill. He described the Government as not serious in its intention of making peasant-proprietors, since it esta- blished the tenant so firmly in his holding as a tenant, that......

Tuesday's Debate Was Opened By The Duke Of Argyll, In

a 'speech which was certainly below the exigencies of the occasion, and which, so far from justifying his secession from the Govern. ment, rather increases our wonder at that......

The Lords Got To Work At The Committee On The

Land Bill on Thursday, and passed a good many amendments, some of which the Commons will probably not agree to,—amongst them, for instance, an amendment leaving out the......