It Is To Be Hoped That The Evidence In Criminal
Cases Bill which the Lord Chancellor has reintroduced will be passed into - law this Session. It allows, but does not force, prisoners to give evidence, and also allows, but......
A Dinner Given Him By The Constitutional Club On Wednes-
day, enabled Mr. Balfour to make the speech with which, but for the snap division, he would have concluded the debate on Monday. It was a fighting speech of some bitterness and......
The Gladstonians Are Making A Great Effort To " Capture
" London by the old means,—public meetings, platform ad- dresses, and speeches from leading men. Sir George Trevelyan and Sir William Harcourt have recently ad- dressed......
The Duke Of Devonshire On Wednesday Made A Valuable Speech
to the Rural Labourers' League, which held its third annual meeting at the Westminster Palace Hotel. After some well-merited compliments to the founder of the League, Mr. Jesse......
Mr. Balfour Brought In His Bill For The Local Government
of Ireland on Thursday, in a strong speech, necessarily encumbered with detail, and interrupted by the unmannerly outcries of the Irish Opposition. We have dealt with the Bill......
There Seems To Be A Widespread Prevalence Of Distress From
drought this year. The Russian famine is due primarily to' that cause, and distress from want of water is now reported from Galicia. The droughts in the drier sections of Aus-......
It Is Stated That The Late Mr. W. H. Smith,
though he had to support the rank of a Cabinet Minister, and was a man of most liberal disposition, left behind him, besides large estates, personalty valued at 21,700,000. The......
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