6 SEPTEMBER 1890, page 2

The Trade-union Congress Commenced Its Annual Meeting On...

Liverpool, with some formal business, and a review of the year by Mr. Broadhurst. On Tuesday, the President, Mr. Matkin, read his address, which was on points almost......

Lord Hartington Addressed A Great Liberal Unionist...

at York on Wednesday, though the Home- rulers declare that there are only about thirty Liberal Unionists in the great county. That, however, is of course mere brag. The Liberal......

The Telegrams In Time Of Peace, And Especially During Dull

seasons like the present, make strange reading. Whole columns of them record nothing but Royal movements, local disasters, and startling crimes. Dalziel's telegrams, in par-......

The Labour Congress May Teach The House Of Commons One

lesson. Although some of the leaders were absurdly furious, and personalities were exchanged of a savage kind, order was maintained. The delegates resolutely supported the......

Mr. Davitt Has Written A Long Letter To The Freeman's

Journal on the potato-disease in the West of Ireland,—which, as he evidently hopes and suggests, may render it impossible to pass the Government Land-Purchase Bill, and yet......

The Discussion On The Eight-hours Bill Was Very Curious. On

Tuesday Mr. Woods, of Wigan, moved an amendment censuring the Parliamentary Committee of the Unions for not supporting the Miners' Eight-Hours Bill more energeti- cally, but......

The Address Of Sir Frederick Abel, The President Of This

year's British Association, at Leeds on Wednesday, ranged over so many topics, that we can only select the one which seems to have excited most popular interest,—his account of......