26 MARCH 1887, page 1

Up To The 23rd Inst., A Belief In Peace Spread

rapidly over Europe, especially based upon the Italian alliance, mentioned below; but after that, we note a renewal of the warlike reports. Their origin is connected with a......

Monday Night Was Occupied In Committee Of Supply, And Was

celebrated as a carnival of obstruction. First there was the debate on the Naval Estimates, Mr. Labouchere moving that progress should be reported before the vote was taken,......

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The First Closure Rale Was Passed At Last, Late On

the evening of yesterday week, after a fierce passage of arms between Mr. Dillon and the Irish Secretary on the subject of the riot at Youghal, and the arrest of Father Kelleher......

Prince Bismarck Has Kept His Bargain With The Pope, By

in- troducing a Bill abolishing all the more serious of the anti- Catholic Falk Laws. They were moat of them, he said, useless. The law, for instance, which sent young priests......

News Of The Week.

• T HE ninety-first birthday of the German Emperor (born March 22nd, 1797) was kept in Berlin on Tuesday with grand ceremonial, and genuine popular rejoicings. Eighty-five......

The Closure Rule Was Then Passed By 262 Votes Against

41, majority 2/1, and was made into a Standing Order of the House without a division. The Closure rule thus adopted provides that any Member may move the Closure, unless the......