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In The Committee On The Criminal Law Amendment Bill,...

week, Mr. H. Fowler's amendment, permitting the Judge to add a flogging to the imprisonment to be inflicted on the wretches who abuse girls under thirteen years of age, was lost......

There Was A Curious Little Scene In The House On

Wednesday, when Mr. O'Brien read a letter which, as he asserted, had been written by Sir George Errington to Lord Granville on the subject of representations to be made to the......

Mr. Forster Addressed His Constituents At Bradford Last...

a farewell which was really a farewell only in form, —being his last speech to the undivided constituency of Bradford. In reality, however, as candidate for the Central Division......

Of Course, Mr. Forster Assailed Strongly The Egyptian...

the late Government, and expressed general distrust of Mr. Gladstone's foreign policy. What is matter of more interest, he declared himself against any interference with a......

Mr. Chamberlain's Second Speech At Hull Was A Very Telling

and remarkable speech on his miscarried Merchant Shipping Bill. Nothing could be more masterly than his array of the facts and his proof, out of their own months, that the most......

General Grant Is To Be Buried To-day Near New York,

on a cliff overlooking the Hudson. The public funeral, which began with a private service at Mount M`Gregor, the General's cottage, and proceeded to Saratoga and thence to......

Mr. Plunket Made A Conservative Speech On Wednesday At...

Green, the art of which consisted in the majestic innocence which he affected of any proceeding by the new Government which had invited attack or called for apology. He had......

The Cholera In Spain Is Assuming More And More Alarming

dimensions every week. It is spreading a panic like the plague itself. On August 5th, there were 4,294 cases reported in Spain and 1,638 deaths. In some of the villages where......