20 AUGUST 1881, page 3

The Liberals Have Lost Two County Members This Week, In

the death of Mr. Joicey, M.P. for North Durham, and of Mr. Lay- cock, M.P. for North Lincolnshire. We ought to keep both seats, and to keep them by increased majorities. In......

At The Ministerial Whitebait Dinner On Wednesday, Which...

as usual at Greenwich, some of the Liberals of Green- wich seized the occasion to present Mr. Gladstone with a carved- oak chair, as a souvenir of his former constituency. The......

M. Ritchie's Motion In The House Of Commons Yesterday Week,

in favour of the policy of manufacturing a fiscal whip of small cords with which to scourge foreign Governments into Free- trade, did not come to much good. Mr. Ritchie proposed......

If It Be True, As Was Stated In A Meeting

held in Edinburgh against the practice of vivisection, and addressed by Miss Cobbe with her usual eloquence whenever she speaks on this subject, that a licence to perform......

Mr. Chamberlain's Speech Was The Speech Of The Evening, And

was a very powerful one. Quoting an able recent paper in the Economist, he showed how mach, under Free-trade, the consump- tion of luxuries by the poor had increased in this......

Consols Were On Friday 100- 1 1 W To 1004.

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The Strictly Legal And Political Duties Of The...

Scotland are to be separated in future, and only the former are to be entrusted to the Lord-Advocate, while the political function of representing Scotland is to rest elsewhere.......

The Bishop Of Manchester,—whom We Have Always Regarded As...

very model of a Bishop in such a community as that of Manchester,—shows a bias on one question only. He is unfair to the Ritualists. He not only permitted the prose- cution, and......