On Tuesday The Debate On The Customs And Inland Revenue
Bill gave an opportunity to several private Members to air their views on taxation. Mr. Brookfield moved an amendment in favour of the abolition of the tax on tea. This......
On Friday, April 28th, Mr. Loder, On The Order For
Com- mittee of Supply, moved a resolution in favour of Imperial Penny Postage ; but Mr. Gladstone and his Postmaster- General pointed out that the proposal was impossible in a......
The Lord Chaucellor Did Us The Honour To Devote A
large part of his speech to replying, on behalf of the Academy, to the criticisms of our Art critic. "If we were to form our opinion from the views expressed in passages we may......
On Thursday, Mr. J. H. Wilson Moved The Adjournment Of
the House to call attention to the Hull strike, his excuse being that the Shipping Federation were engaged in contravening certain Acts of Parliament, and generally acting......
There Was Some Good Speaking At The Royal Academy Dinner
this day week. The Prince of Wales said that, since his first invitation to the banquet thirty years ago, his "absences" had been like angels' visits, "few and far between,"—a......
In Thursday's Times, Mr. Robert Mcgeagh Writes To Ask Mr.
Gladstone whether Mr. Andrew Lang, in his Life of Lord Iddesleigh, had correctly stated that, in 1852, Mr. Glad- stone removed the late Mr. James Hope Scott from the position of......
The French Are Still Under The Impression That France Is
too much liked. No less than five Bills have been laid before the Chamber for checking immigration, there being, it is declared, already 480,000 Belgians, 280,000 Italians,......
Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.
New Coacols (21) were on Friday 98i.......
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