A Meeting To Pass Resolutions In Favour Of The Abolition
of the House of Lords was held at St. James's Hall last Satur- day, Sir Wilfrid Lawson in the chair. Sir Wilfrid Lawson said that what was wanted was a Bill for disfranchising......
The Duke Of Wellington's Sudden Death From...
leaves, it is said, a third Garter at the disposal of the Prime Minister. As the Marquis of Bath has just levelled a serious personal attack at Mr. Gladstone—a most unfortunate......
Bank Rate, 2 Per Cent.
Consols were on Friday 1001 to 1001.......
Mr. Labouchere Was Also Very Fierce. Far Be It From
him, he said, to compare the House of Lords to thieves ; nevertheless, in - the last fifty years it had done more harm than all the thieves' dens and thieves' kitchens in......
In The House Of Commons, On Saturday, Mr. Gladstone Moved
that the House do go into Committee on the House of Lords' Bill for giving a separate Bishop to Bristol so soon as a sufficient endowment has been provided for the See,—a Bill......
Mr. Cross's Statement, Yesterday Week, Of The Indian...
given as usual to a very thin House ; but it was an able and lucid statement, which was very well received by those who were present, and which elicited a very complimentary......
Mr. Mundella Received Last Saturday In Manchester A...
to the successful efforts which he made twelve years ago to reduce the hours of labour in factories, and to increase the age at which children's labour should be admissible. The......
Colonel Rich, In His Report On The Terrible Downton Accident
of June 3rd, by which five passengers were killed and forty-one injured, passes a severe censure on the London and South- Western Railway, for running trains made up of inferior......
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