7 AUGUST 1880, page 1

Lord C Ranville Introduced The Bill, In A Speech Of

great ability, on Monday night, showing that 1,800 families would be turned absolutely out of their holdings in the course of the present year, while only 406 families were so......

We Have Now Received Colonel St. John's Account Of The

disastrous battle in which General Barrows was crushed by Ayoub Khan. It appears that the battle was fought on Tues- day, the 27th, not Monday, the 26th July, a few miles north......

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Sir Bartle Frere Has Been Recalled. On Thursday, Lord...

stated in the House of Lords, and Lord Hartington in the House of Commons, that " there had never existed between her Majesty's present Government and Sir Bartle Frere that......

News Of The Week.

T HE prominent anxiety of the week has not, after all, been our disaster in Afghanistan, profoundly as that has been felt, but the serious illness of the Prime Minister, which......

The Lords Have Rejected The Irish Compensation For Dis-...

Bill, by a majority of between 5 and 6 to 1. There voted for it 51 Peers, and against it 282,—majority, 231. This was partly due, no doubt, to the reports of the Irish harvest,......