Sir Henry Campbell-bannerman's Speech In Reply, While...
astute, was marked by a certain "clumsy grace" such as often distinguishes the successful House of Commons speaker. There was a ring, too, of something higher, something which......
The German Emperor Made A Striking Speech On Friday Week
at the annual dinner of the Brandenburg Diet. We have quoted the principal passages of the speech elsewhere, but we may mention here its general drift. The Emperor declared, in......
The Vienna Correspondent Of The Times Continues To Regard...
possibility of a large German secession from the Roman Church as perfectly serious. Six persons, he says, at Linz, in Upper Austria, publicly quitted Catholicism on Thursday,......
The Queen's Speech Is Never A Very Exciting Document, But
this year it is duller than usual. After a not very coherent series of comments on the events of the last six months, and appropriate references to Khartoum, Prince George, the......
Lord Salisbury's Reply Was Easy And Good-tempered, As It...
might be, for he had no awkward things to defend, and if he had been a man of a different temper of mind he might have indulged in a paean of triumph over the successes of the......
On Monday The Meeting Of Liberal Members Of The House
of Commons to elect a successor to Sir William Harcourt ended, as had been expected, or rather arranged, in the unanimous choice of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as leader in the......
In The House Of Lords On Tuesday The Address Was
moved by the Duke of Bedford in a speech not only marked, as Lord Salisbury noted, by " the singular literary merit of its structure," but by a sense of real statesmanship.......
The Royal Family Has Sustained A Blow This Week In
the death from brain disease of Prince Alfred, the only sou of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and heir-apparent of the Prin- cipality. He was twenty-four years old. He has always......
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