5 JUNE 1886, page 4

Topics Of The Day.

THE FORGOTTEN ELEMENT IN THE IRISH PROBLEM. W HEN the Home-rulers say so positively and so frequently that there is no alternative at all between Home-rule and what they are......

The Latest Rumour.

T HE Daily Telegraph of Friday has given currency to a rumour which we sincerely hope is not true. It is that the Government, if defeated on the second reading of the Home-rule......