In Connection With This Scheme, Admiral Hewett Has Been Sent
to Abyssinia on a mission to King John. He is instructed, it is believed, to ask whether, if the King is allowed free access to Massowah, and guaranteed against Egypt, he would......
News Of The Week
'MEM latest intelligence from Khartoum is that the city is closely invested, that General Gordon is very angry at the non- arrival of British troops, and that he intends to......
The Franchise Debate Of Friday Week And Tuesday Turned...
on Mr. Brodrick's Irish amendment, Mr. S. Leighton's amendment for giving a freehold franchise in boroughs to balance the freehold franchise in counties having been withdrawn.......
Baron De Worms, On Thursday, Once More Raised The Question
of the Conference. Under cover of a motion to reduce the Civil Estimates, he contrived to insinuate that the Government would neglect English interests in Egypt, that it would......
Mr. Plunket Having Urged In Eloquent Language Mr. Brod-...
argument over again, Mr. Gladstone replied with great fire that it was quite impossible to go back to the policy of in- justice to Ireland, from which this country had suffered......
We Suspect It Will Be Found When The Conference Meets
that M. Ferry's first preoccupation has been to protect French Bond- holders, and his second to prevent direct annexation. He is said to have been satisfied on both heads, and......
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