12 AUGUST 1893, page 1

On Monday, The House Of Commons, After A Protest From

the Unionists in regard to the Schedule of Irish constituencies —under which Protestant Armugb, though it has twice the number of electors to be found in Catholic Meath, has......

On Saturday—or Rather At 3 O'clock On Sunday Morning— The

jury engaged in the trial of Norton and Ducret for the Cocarde forgeries—i.e., the papers purporting to show that our Embassy in Paris was deluging the Chamber with British gold......

News Of The Week.

T HE French elections take place on Sunday week, and the electoral campaign is being conducted with unusual vehe- mence. Two public utterances have attracted special attention,......

On Friday Week, Mr. Storey Rose At 9 O'clock To

move a resolution that it is desirable for any Bill which has twice passed the Commons, but failed to pass the Lords, and which shall, with the support of the Government, pass......

A Considerable Sensation Was Produced In Paris On Monday...

the publication of a series of alleged revelations, com- promising a number of Ministers and ex-Ministers. The writer, M. Dupas, professes to be an ex-secretary of the Detective......

On Tuesday, The Prime Minister, Questioned By Mr. Jacks As

to whether the Government had come to any decision upon the holding of an autumn Session, replied first to a question which Mr. Jacks had not asked, and then, with great......

On Sunday, The Canal Across The Isthmus Of Corinth—begun By

Nero, and completed, nearly two thousand years later, by a Greek engineer, M. Matsas—was opened by the King of Greece, who steamed through the canal in his yacht, accom- panied......

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