There Are Signs That The Spanish Government Means To Sell
Cuba. The want of money at home is extreme, the Treasury cannot bear the expense of further reinforcements, and it is evident from the tone of the new Captain-General that he......
The Dreaded 12th Of July Passed Off In Ireland Withont
an insurrection. There was a riot or two of course, and two or three lives were lost, and a few Catholic schools were sacked ; but in Ulster those are trivialities. The......
Sir Roundell Palmer, In A Peculiarly Striking Speech,...
Mr. Bright's admission the inference that the spirit of Protestant ascendancy, however broken, still lingers amongst us, and shows itself in this inability of the British......
The Morale Of Our London Police Is Clearly In Need
of improve- ment. Five clerks in a joint stock bank were on Thursday charged with assaulting the police in the Haymarket, and with using obscene language. An inspector, three......
Mr. Gladstone Explained On Thursday Night That He Was Going
to propose that the House of Commons should disagree to every amendment of the slightest importance proposed by the Lords. A half-exception was the amendment of the Lords......
Lord Derby, With Some Forty-seven Other Peers, Have...
"protest" against the third reading of the Irish Church Bill. The eight reasons given for the protest were the old stock reasons. But two of the signataries, Lord Cairns and the......
Earl Grosvenor On Tuesday Asked The House Of Commons To
remit the whole or part of a sum of £.260,000 borrowed by Cheshire to pay compensation to the owners of cattle slaughtered during the plague, and now a burden upon the county......
On Thursday Night The Lords' Amendments In The Preamble, On
the date, on the deduction of curates' salaries, on the glebe houses, on concurrent endowment, and on other smaller matters were actually disagreed with.......
The Church Bill Was Read A Third Time In The
Lords on Monday and passed. After the third reading, however, the Peers accepted two very important re-amendments. By the first, introduced by Lord Devon, strongly supported by......
The Debate Of Thursday Was Not One Of Great Note.
Mr. Dis- raeli, who would not fight a stroke for concurrent endowment, was advisedly weak. Dr. Ball defended concurrent endowment, quoting from Mr. Bright's letter written 17......
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