13 NOVEMBER 1880, page 1

News Of The Week

T HE state of Ireland is still the great anxiety of the Govern- ment, and is, we fear, an increasing rather than a diminish- ing anxiety. The area of disturbance spreads, and......

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Sir William Harcourt Had An Amusing Little Brush With The

Sheriffs,—one of whom, Alderman Fowler, M.P. for the City of London, is a strong Conservative,—when he declared that he thought Gog and Magog must have been the primeval......

But The Most English Of Speeches Was The Prime Minister's,

grave, dignified, and hopeful, and without a single flash of party feeling, but certainly not sanguine, and in relation to Irish politics a speech of warning. We have said so......

The Lord Mayor's Day Is, As The French Ambassador Said

on Tuesday, one of the most English things in England, and pro- bably it was never more thoroughly English than under the presidency of its new,—some say its first,—Irish Lord......

The " Boycott Incident," The Principal Event Of The Week

in Ireland, was and, for that matter, may still be a very dangerous one. We have described the main facts - elsewhere, and it is clear from them that but for Mr. Forster's nerve......