23 APRIL 1887, page 2

On Monday, The Times Published A Facsimle Of A Letter

pur- porting to have been written by Mr. Parnell to some of his associates in the Land League after the assassinations of 1 2. It was dated "15/5/89," and ran thus :—" Dear......

After That, The Scene Of Passion Was Renewed With Mr.

Sexton, who also gave Colonel Saunderson the lie direct ; but in his case, as he had been personally attacked, which was not the case with Mr. Healy, the Speaker intervened to......

Passing To The More General Connection Of The Land And

National Leagues with crime, Colonel Saunderson asserted that the Executive Committee of the Land League, of which Mr. Parnell was the head, contained Mr. Sexton and Mr. A.......

Later In The Evening, Colonel Saunderson Rose To Bring His

indictment against the Land League and the National League, and to justify those clauses of the Bill which permit the Govern- ment to proclaim, in particular districts, any......

Mr. Balfour's Reply To Mr. Gladstone Was The Ablest Speech

he has yet made in the House. He proved that Mr. Gladstone had not read the reports of crime furnished, and did not understand in the least the drift of the conspiracy clause.......

The Night Of Yesterday Week Was One Of Great Excitement

in the House of Commons, though it began quietly enough in a dashing speech of Sir William Harcourt's, of which the chief points were that he regarded all conspiracies as......

On Tuesday Night, Mr. Gladstone Addressed The Eighty Club In

a speech full of verve and brilliance, though one singularly unfair, in our opinion, to the Liberal Unionists. First he gave the Pamellites a testimonial to character as having,......

The Publication Of This Letter Rendered A Situation...

still more threatening. But in reality the new shock rather reduced than increased the violence, and the debate of Monday was less exciting than might have been expected. Mr.......