29 DECEMBER 1883, page 1

Passing To Home Policy, Mr. Cowen Dilated On The Miserable

failure in Ireland, and declared that nothing but Home-rule would mend the mischief there. He asserted that the English people were, as Goethe called them, " practical, but......

Rumours Have Been In Circulation All The Week That The

Mandi is advancing on Khartoum, but they are wholly unverified. The only European correspondent there, however, the one who telegraphs to the Times, reports that steamers close......

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On Saturday Last, A Deputation From The Liberal Working- Men

of Derby waited on Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden Castle to present to him a dessert service of Derby china, specially designed for him, as a commemoration of the fiftieth......

Note, As A Remarkable Indication Of The Awing In Opinion

about Egypt, that the Pall Mall Gazette, which has been con- sistently forward in urging evacuation, now admits that it may be indispensable for the British Government to govern......

Mr. Cowen Made A Very Eloquent And Elaborate Speech To

his Newcastle constituents this day week. He declared that we ought never to have gone to Egypt, but that having gone, we could never retire, whether it were a false prophet, or......

News Of The Week.

T HE Black Flags, having been defeated in the stockaded villages round Sontay, evacuated the citadel on the 16th, and on the 17th Admiral Courbet took possession of the......