6 MAY 1871, page 2

The Ministry Received Something Like A Memento Mori...

on occasion of the Epping Forest debate, when Mr. Cowper Temple, seconded by Mr. Holms, carried by a majority of 101 (197 to 96) a resolution calling on Government, in......

Mr. Ward Hunt Rallied Mr. Stansfeld On That "irony Of

events" which had turned him into the advocate of a great military expenditure, after leading the attack upon it in 1862. Mr. Richard made a peace speech against......

Negotiations At Brussels Do Not Appear To Progress Very...

There has been a hitch about the commercial treaty, which M. Thiers refuses to grant, and there are difficulties about the indem- nity. The French offered 214,000,000 a year in......

Prince Bismarck On Tuesday Delivered A Great Speech To The

Reichstag in defence of the terms of his treaty with France, a speech reported in extenso in the Telegraph only. The Chancellor - employed the well-known arguments for seizing......

The Manchester Guardian Has Received A Telegram...

truce for twenty-five days has been agreed upon between Versailles and Paris. The report, which is in itself very impro- bable, derives no authority from the source from which......

Mr. Gladstone Was Rather Lengthy On The Technical Side Of

the proposal to suspend repayment of the Debt, and Mr. Disraeli hardly spoke so well as on Monday night. In the interim he had prepared a sobriquet for Mr. Stansfeld, whom lie......

Thursday's Debate, Introduced By Mr. Mccallagh Torrens,...

the postponement of the repayment of debt on the Terminable or, as Mr. Disraeli called them, with reference to Mr..Gladstone's diffuseness, the "Interminable Annuities," but its......

Mr. Lowe Complained Of Mr. Harcourt For Fancying That All

the world was as clever as himself, showed that, as experience proved, it was too late to vote money for defence when war was upon you, and justified the income-tax as the only......