Prince Bismarck Sustained His First Defeat In The New German
Parliament on Wednesday. The Liberalists, Centre, and Social Democrats united, and carried the second reading of a Bill for the payment of Members by 180 votes to 99. The......
The Congo Conference Is Advancing Fairly Well. All The...
seem favourable to Free-trade, and there is no attempt to deny English interest in the matter, while the English repre- sentatives apparently approve the delimitation of the......
Mr. Gladstone Admitted, In Reply, That He Had Suffered Often
and much from the hereditary principle, and that he was no idolator of it. At the same time, he could not go so far as Mr. Labonchere and Sir Wilfrid Lawson in the opposite......
Mr. Labouchere's Motion That It Is Desirable So To Adjust
the relations of the Houses of Lords and Commons as to render it impossible for a Tory Chamber to obstruct indefinitely the measures of a Liberal Government, came on in the......
At Leeds, On Tuesday, Mr. John Morley Made An Excellent
speech to the Liberal Six Hundred at the Philosophical Hall, on the present condition of the Reform question. He was quite unable, he said, to see the Liberal humiliation of......
An Astonishing Act Of Cruelty Is Reported From Trinidad. Mr.
A. J. E. Andre, of Port of Spain, reports to the Anti-Slavery Society that the Mnssulman and Hindoo coolies of Trinidad have of late years united to keep the Mohurrum, or......
Mr. Caine, Who Has Accepted Office, And Has Had, In
conse- quence, to stand a contest for Scarborough, was returned on Wednesday by a majority of 193 for Scarborough,—the second contest there within a fortnight. Colonel Steble's......