19 FEBRUARY 1887, page 3

It Is Said That The Government Are Half Inclined To

give way about the Coal-duty on Loudon. The majority of the Metropolitan Members will vote for continuing it, if only it is spent fairly, so as to include the suburbs, and if it......

Yesterday, After We Went To Press, The Struggle Was No

doubt renewed on the reception of the Report of the Address. It is to be hoped that in the new Procedure resolutions, steps will be taken to confine the debate on the Address,......

The Teetotallers Are Not Very Logical People. At The Conven-

tion of temperance representatives, held on Wednesday at Exeter Hall, Mr. Gustayson proposed that, the object of the party being the extinction of the liquor traffic, the only......

But The Chief Cause For Congratulation Was In The Firmness

of the Speaker after the resumption of the debate on the Address. First he silenced Mr. Dillon for anticipating Mr. Sexton's motion in relation to Irish jury-packing, as he had......

India Has Been The First Of The British Dependencies To

celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. The Anglo-Indians cannot hold festivals in May, on account of the heat, and so they selected February 16th for their celebration. The rejoicing......

Lord Wolverton Has Done A Generous Act In Devoting To

the use of the Post-Office employ& the salary which he received when he was Postmaster-General. The money has been spent in securing at St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover,......

On Thursday Night, A Gleam Of Hope For The Return

of the House of Commons to better ways than those to which it has been recently accustomed, broke across the sky. In the first place, Mr. Dillwyn, who rose to move the......

It Is Asserted, Apparently On Good Authority, That Dr....

Archbishop of Cashel, has published a letter begging Irishmen no longer to pay their taxes :—" Payment is suicidal ; and, in the presence of the actual state of things in......

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