6 DECEMBER 1879, page 2

Row Mr. Gladstone's Mouth Must Water Over American...

Sherman will, it is stated, estimate the re- ceipts for the financial year ending June 30th next at 257,600,000, and the expenditure at 252,800,000, leaving a surplus of......

The Waddington Ministry In France Has Obtained A Vote Of

confidence from the Chamber by 243 to 107, but 130 members abstained from voting. The vote was demanded by the Premier, who declared, in a fine speech on Tuesday, that the Left......

The Government Have Apparently Acceded To An Arrangement...

Canada of some importance. The Canadian Ministers are desirous that, with such complicated affairs often on hand,— fishery questions, for example, in which the Imperial and......

Nothing Advances At Constantinople Except The Floating...

did not, after all, sign Baker Pasha's appointment, and that officer has gone to Aleppo as a sort of Reporter-General, to whom the Sultan may attend, if he pleases. His Majesty......

Mr. Gladstone Delivered A Final Speech At Edinburgh On...

day, upon the subject of finance, a most scathing exposure of Sir Stafford Northcote's smooth sayings in defence of his mis- management. We cannot, of, course, condense a speech......

Mr. Fonder Made An Admirable Speech At Appleby On Thurs-

day, applying to the Tory Government the old sense of the word " Tory,"—the sense in which, as Mr. Forster showed, by the language of an old Westmoreland woman, it is still used......

It Is Difficult, As The Cabinet Conceals All Information, To

esti- mate precisely the character of the news from the Cape. It seems certain, however, that Sir Garnet Wolseley intends to attack Secocoeni, who has refused his terms ; that......