8 APRIL 1882, page 1

News Of The Week

T HE House of Commons adjourned on Tuesday, after a most disappointing Session of two months. Not only has nothing been accomplished, but what is much more disheartening and......

Mr. P. J. Smyth, The Nationalist Member For Tipperary, A

man as eager for the independence of Ireland as Mr. Parnell, has received a message from the Town Commissioners condemn- ing his vote on the Closure, and has replied in a letter......

The News From Ireland Grows Worse And Worse. The Murder

of Mr. Herbert was scarcely reported, with its ghastly subse- quent incident, the stabbing of all the lambs upon his lawn, when it was known that Mrs. Smythe, a lady of......

One Of The Many Difficulties That Arise Under The Coercion

Act is the application of the statute to foreigners. There is no doubt that foreigners are liable to any law applicable to natives also, but at the same time Englishmen have......

Mr. Gladstone's Tone Was Throughout That Of One Who Sadly

admitted the gravity of the crisis, which had developed, he said, into "a social revolution, more wide-spread than any previous Government had encountered." He even thought......

Mr. Gorst On Tuesday Raised An Important Debate. He Called

attention to the increase of unpunished crime in Ireland, and though he made the usual mistake of counting threatening letters as crimes—they vary from notices of murder to......

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