10 MAY 1884, page 2

In The Division On The Deceased Wife's• Sister...

Conservatives voted with Mr. Broadhurst, and seven Liberals with the Ecclesiastical party. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. W. H. Gladstone, and Mr. Herbert Gladstone walked out without......

The Division In The American. House Of Representatives...

Morrison Tariff - Bill, round which the Free-trade battle is carried on, was unexpectedly close. • It had been- expected that many Democrats would secede ; but when Mr. Conver......

Mr. Broadhurst, On Tuesday, Carried A• Resolution In...

a measure of relief to repeal the law against marriage with a deceased wife's sister, by a majority of II1 (238 against 127). He maintained strongly that the present , law does......

On Tuesday, At The Afternoon Sitting, Sir Richard Cross...

an addition to Clause 2 which was intended to provide for the suspension of the operative effect of the Franchise Bill till after the Redistribution Bill had been carried, but......

The German Government Has Taken Strong Action Against The...

Under the provisions of a Bill submitted to the Federal Council, all manufacturers of explosives or dealers in them are required, under a penalty of two years' imprisonment, to......

A Most Unintelligible Marine Disaster Is 'reported This...

Atlantic steamer State of Florida' was on the night of April 18th, in lat. 49° N:, and long. 36" 30' W., about 1,200 miles from Ireland, with 167 passengers and crew on board.......

On The Same Evening An Attempt Was Made By Mr.

Raikes, M.P. for the University of Cambridge, to obtain a Committee of Inquiry into the circumstances of the Hereford election in 1880, on the ground that some corrupt......

The Russian Government, Which Is Anxious For Peace, Is...

co-operating with the German and Austrian Govern- ments in repressing any movement for the union of Eastern Roumelia with Bulgaria. So fixed is this decision, that even......