20 AUGUST 1887, page 2

Mr. Justice Field's Sentence Of Eight Years' Penal...

Miriam Jones, who had been found guilty by a Swansea jury of putting her child into a disused mine with the inten- tion of killing it, has been made the occasion of a monstrous......

Mr. Gladstone On Tuesday Laid The First Cylinder Of The

new railway-bridge over the Dee, between Chester and Flint, thus connecting Wales with Liverpool, Manchester, and the North of England. By this line, the Manchester, Sheffield,......

Among The Various Efforts Which Have Been Made To Discredit

the Government, none has been more determined than the dead set made at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's very " innocent" little Inland Revenue Bill. The object of this Bill......

On Thursday Evening, Mr. W. H. Smith Announced In The.

House of Commons that the Government, while recognising the importance of the measure, had been compelled to abandon the Tithes Bill. We cannot help again expressing our extreme......

In The Speech Subsequently Made At The Luncheon Which Took

place in a tent close to the new bridge, Mr. Gladstone dilated on the markets for the coal of North Wales which this new line would probably open up, and on the new markets for......

In The Northwich Division Of Cheshire, Mr. Brunner, The...

candidate, was returned on Saturday with a majority slightly greater than in 1885, the Unionist reaction of 1886 having apparently disappeared and left no trace behind. Mr.......

Daring The Past Week, Parliament Has Occupied A...

of time in passing the Coal-Mines Regulation Bill through Committee,—a measure, in the main, directed towards the safety of the miners. The discussion on Mr. Williamson's......

Bouvier, The French Premier, Is Showing More Ability And...

than were attributed to him at the time he formed his Government. In a speech made on Thursday at a dinner given by the toymakers and jewellers, he dwelt with pride on his......