20 OCTOBER 1883, page 1

News Of The Week.

M JULES FERRY, finding the Extremists implacable • in their hatred of the Government, has finally declared war on them. He announced at Rouen on Satur- day that the Ministry......

Subsequently, The Rev. H. W. Crosskey, Of Birmingham,...

the claims of women to the Parliamentary franchise; and in this he was supported by Miss Cobden and by a daughter of Mr. Bright's,—Mrs. Bright-Clarke, of Street, in......

The Leeds Conference, On Wednesday, Mustered Some 2,500...

upwards of five hundred Liberal Associations in different parts of the kingdom, and found, apparently, no difficulty at all in coming to a resolution which was all but unanimous......

On Thursday, The Leeds Conference Resolved That After...

extension of household franchise to the counties, a Redistribution Bill should be proposed, "such as would give as nearly as possible an equal value to every vote, and secure a......

Mr. Bright, In The Long Evening Speech In Which He

reviewed the conversion of the nation to his own creed, illustrated with great power the distorting effect of the minority representation, in the experimental form in which it......

The Great Difficulty In M. Ferry's Way Is His Foreign

policy. His own party in the Chamber dislike the risks the Govern- ment is running in Tonquin, and are annoyed at the unpleasant- ness with England on account of the Shaw......

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