Lord Selborne Has Given Notice That He Proposes In The
Burials Bill to define "the Christian and orderly service' which is to be permitted in the Churchyard, as any service used by any sect or any individual professing to be......
The Select Committee On The Falk Laws, Or Rather On
the proposal of the Prussian Government to lodge in the hands of officials discretionary power to apply these laws or not, at the will of the Administration, has decided on a......
The General Drift Of The Intelligence Of This Week Tends
to show that the Great Powers intend sincerely that Greece should obtain her territory, and will upon that subject overbear any resistance; that they will give Montenegro......
The Division In The Lords On The Burials Bill Shows
a majo- rity of episcopal votes in favour of the second reading. The two Archbishops and eight Bishops voted in favour of the Bill (the Bishops, namely, of Carlisle, Exeter,......
Mr. Pease On Friday Week Raised The Annual Debate On
the opium monopoly, and Lord Hartington made his first speech upon it. It was not a very prudent one, for he spoke of his opponents as advocating a "cheap morality," and so......
Flogging In The British Service, Whatever Its Merits Or...
has obviously come to an end. Mr. Gorst on Monday made a bitter speech, intended to place the Government in a dilemma, in which he recalled all the declarations which Mem- bers......
The Deliberations Of The Republican Convention At Chicago...
in the nomination of Mr. James A. Garfield, once an agricultural day labourer, then a teacher, then a lawyer, then an officer in the war, created Major-General for his conduct......