The Real Fight Began In Committee On Thursday. The House
was crowded, and Lord Salisbury in particular was like a captain with his decks cleared for action. It was very soon clear that if the Peers ruled England the Bill would soon be......
A Hundred And Two Commoners Voted On Tuesday For Relieving
all future Lords Spiritual from the duty of attending in the House of Lords, and amongst the 102 there were one or two names of old Whigs,—like Mr. Hastings Russell, Mr. Ellis,......
Mr. Beresford Hope Was Very Severe On The Feeling Displayed
by the Opposition that the support of Conservatives was "like a shake of the hand from a man with the small-pox." He resisted the veto on formularies, asking if the 7'e Deuni......
Women Are Still, For Another Year, To Be Sentenced, On
marriage, to confiscation of all they possess. The Peers have referred their Bill to a Select Committee, with orders, as we underatand them, to make it into a Bill for securing......
Dr. Lyon Playfair, In A Masterly Speech, Proved That The
measure now proposed, though not a complete national settlement of the question, would prepare the way for such a complete national settlement, and ridiculed utterly, on the......
News Of The Week.
T HE Irish Land Bill passed its second reading in the Lords on Friday week, the chief speakers in the third day's debate being the Irish Peers. Lord Lurgan said the legalization......
The Education Debate Has Lasted All The Week. It Was
resumed on Monday by Mr. Richard, the Member for Merthyr Tydvil, whose speech resembled the whole debate in this,—that it pre- sented a very curious mixture of very different......
