News Of The Week.
T4 ORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL on Monday resumed the adjourned debate on the Affirmation Bill in a clever speech, which he commenced by taunting Mr. Gladstone with his obscure......
The Rest Of The Debate Was Not Very Impressive, Except
that Mr. O'Brien naively suggested that Members who found diffi- culty in swearing allegiance to Queen Victoria, and who would have been very glad to admit conscientious......
Mr. Labonchere Followed, With A Lively Speech, In Which He
rema4ed that Lord Randolph's chief object had been to prove that iL was he on whom "the mantle of Elijah had descended," though of the new Elisha Mr. Labouchere had formed......
On Thursday, The Debate Was Resumed By Mr. Newdegate, In
a speech which was a variation on the well-known song, "Pity the sorrows of a poor old man r indeed, a threnody on his hard fate, in being worsted, by Lord Coleridge's judgment,......
Two Remarkable Incidents Have Occurred In The Course Of The
Irish trials. Fitzharris (" Skin the Goat"), the carman who drove the murderers of Lord F. Cavendish and Mr. Burke, has been acquitted by the jury. Nobody doubted his presence......
The Liberals Who Voted Against The Government Were The Three
Messrs. Fitzwilliam (South-West Riding, Malton, and Peterborough), none of whom explained their remarkable vote ; Sir E. Watkin (Hythe) ; Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens (Finsbury); Mr.......
