25 DECEMBER 1886, page 1

The Week Has Been Marked Principally By Rumours Of Coming

war. There are no new signs of it perceptible ; but there has been a perceptible increase in uneasiness, due, it is believed, first of all, to the Russian rejection of Prince......

News Of The Week.

T HE Government has suddenly collapsed, Lord Randolph Churchill at least having placed his resignation in the hands of Lord Salisbury, who, three weeks before the meeting of......

The Reason For Mr. Parnell's Manifesto Is Abundantly...

" Plan " has greatly exasperated English opinion ; the Liberal leaders will not justify it ; and Parliament meets in less than three weeks. Mr. Parnell desires to resume his......

There Is But One Man Left In The Cabinet Who

would have much chance of coping with the new difficulties created in the House of Commons by this grave event, and that is the Home Secretary, Mr. Henry Matthews. But as he was......

Mr. Parnell Has Broken Silence Upon The "plan Of Cam-

paign" at last. He says that he never heard of it. In an official circular forwarded to all the leading papers, it is declared that Mr. Parnell, who has been missing for some......

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