Mr. Childers Has Made Two Speeches At Pontefract This Week,
of the solidly-instructive kind. In the first, on Wednesday, he told his audience that the recruiting difficulty was over, the rate of enlistment having risen again to 37,000 a......
Lord Salisbury Made A Lively Speech At Watford On Thurs-
day. He directed his remarks chiefly to badgering Lord Hartington. Lord Hartington, he said, wished to make the House of Lords into a kind of political parish clerk, that should......
Mr. Childers Devoted His Second Speech, At Knottingley On...
mainly to Reform and the rehousing of the poor. He thought parties were approximating about reform, both of them admitting that household suffrage must be extended to the......
Mr. Folger, The Republican Secretary To The Treasury,...
to recommend immediate redaction of the Tariff, except in the matter of wools for carpets, admits that the- country does not desire a reduction in the internal revenue duties on......
We Deeply Regret To Find That Mr. Goschen Has Declined
the Speakership, in consequence of the shortness of his sight, which, it is thought, would interfere seriously with the adequate dis- charge of his duties. All parties would......
The Delegates From The Australian Colonies, New Zealand,...
met at Sydney on November 28th, to consider the question of Federation. The debates are secret, but by December 5th the Conference had agreed unanimously to the following seven......
Sir John Lubbock, Who Spoke After Lord Hartington, Made An
admirable joke, in the opening of his speech. He said that the great cataract of invective to which the Government had been exposed, and to which Lord Hartington had referred,......
The Rank And File Of The Democeat Majority In Congress
have revolted against their leaders, in the interest of Free-trade. Those leaders wished to elect litr. Randall as Speaker of the House, but at a previous meeting or 'caucus,......