The Arrangement With The Suez Canal Company Must, Of Course,
be ratified by Parliament, and it is said that it will be strenuously resisted. The shipowners, who hoped for a com- peting British Canal, with very low rates, are furious, and......
The Corrupt Practices Bill Had All But Passed Through...
before yesterday's sitting. A few alight changes had been made in the right direction,—such as the Equity clause which will permit an Election Judge to declare that by a trivial......
No Intelligence Whatever Of These Events Appears To Have...
Paris, but M. Jules Ferry, the Premier, assures the Cor- respondent of the Standard that he had received intelligence of Mr. Gladstone's speech with the "greatest surprise." He......
Mr. Childers On Wednesday Described The Arrangement Made...
British Government with the Suez Canal Company. The Company are to cut a second Canal by the end of 1888, parallel with the first, and of adequate capacity ; to appoint an......
News Of The Week.
GRAVE incident occurred in the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon. Sir Stafford Northcote having inquired, in a, guarded and significant way, whether serious news had not......
The Hiring Of Public Vehicles By A Candidate Or His
agent for the conveyance of electors to the poll is to be strictly forbidden, while it is to be permitted to any number of electors to join together to hire a public vehicle for......
