6 FEBRUARY 1886, page 5

The First Business Of Parliament.

W E sincerely trust that when Mr. Gladstone's Govern- ment has been formed, and those wretched re-elections have been got through, the Ministry will make of Home-rule their......

Lord Hartington And Slit Henry James.

I T is at least something gained for the political mind of the day, that Lord Hartington and Sir Henry James should have shown definitively that the power of saying "No" has not......