29 NOVEMBER 1879, page 1

The Russian Diplomatists Are Said To Intend To Hold A

kind of meeting at Berlin on December 2nd. The Czar arrives there on his way to Cannes, where the Empress is lying seriously ill; Prince Gortschakoff will be there, on his way......

Mr. Gladstone's First Great Speech Was Made In The Music

Hall, Edinburgh, on Tuesday, to an audience of about 2,000 persons, including seventy reporters. Ile treated the selection of his name from a world outside that of the......

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At West Calder, On Thursday, Mr. Gladstone Addressed...

people, in a temporary building run up for the occasion, and interested them deeply with his striking descrip- tion of the effect of the agricultural depression in the Eastern......

At Dalkeith, On Wednesday, Mr. Gladstone, After A Very Im-

pressive exposition of the weight of new responsibilities abroad for which the Government have made the United Kingdom respon- sible, and the extreme imprudence of these......

News Of The Week.

M R. GLADSTONE dominates the week. His progress northwards on Monday was a series of ovations. In Preston, in Carlisle, in Hawick, in Galashiels, he had to receive popular......