3 AUGUST 1889, page 2

The First Debate On The Royal Grants Came To An

end on Friday week, when an unexpectedly large minority,—num- bering no less than 116, without counting the Members who paired in favour of Mr. Labonchere's motion,—voted......

The Subject Was Renewed On Monday Night By Mr. John

Morley, who moved an amendment, which was in effect the amendment of Mr. Labouchere over again, though made in Committee instead of made as against the proposal to go into......

On The Irish Question, Too, Lord Randolph Dilated In A,

sense decidedly, though not openly, hostile to the policy of the present Administration. Ireland is to be conciliated by every concession short of the one which the Parnellites......

On Monday, Lord Randolph Churchill, Speaking At A Great...

meeting at St. George's Hall, Walsall, elaborated his proposals for social reform. The Opposition, he declared, were demoralised and disorganised, and Ireland was compara-......

Lord Randolph Churchill Having, In His Walsall Speech,...

harmless though unpractical suggestions in relation to the sale and purchase of land, and the building of cheap and wholesome houses for the poor, dashed into his more natural......

Of These Proposals As A Whole We Have Spoken Elsewhere,

but we cannot omit to notice here that Lord Randolph entirely ignores the Settled Land Act when he describes the insolvent tenant for life growing on the land like a fungus.......

Lord Hartington's Speech Was Worthy Of His Masculine Good...

and reduced the issue to its true insignificance. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, however, was unusually heady, and called all his opponents a " swell-mob." Mr. Goschen closed the debate......