... -1 - Jill 91 PARLIAMEN ?? IT was a complaint made with more or less truth against the late Government that, partly from disinclination, and partly from engagements in more distant parts of Europe, the ...

... REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPENI. SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1880. SATURDAY'S EDITION. X=R ELZCTION PETITIONS. There is something very degrading in con- exion with our elections, if we are to judge by the evidence taken in some recent cases, In the Cririnal law there is a good old maxim that 'the receiver is worse than the thief. That maxim oughtto be applied to gentlemen who bribe. It is impossible to deal ...

... ENCOUEAGENT. BD 2nRIFT. Is 1 ; - . . . To TrHE SnD1OB T0 R:0YNtOLD S N XWS&PER-.; ?? Faweett, the -new Postmaster-' General, is already (displaying the eneitgy' and -activity I expected at his bands. k'or many years the Post-offlie has been under the direc- tion of one of those wooden-headed aristocrats'. who prove themselves insurmountable impedi-- ments eto all beneficial progress. The Post- ...

... SUMARY OF LATEST AsO i's NEWS. Yesterday the Prince and Princess of Wales ?? Gravesend for the purpose of being present at the Royal' Thames Yacht Club race, in which the Prince's yaclt Formosa was engaged. i; Yesterday George Brockley, aged twelve, reaidir with his parents in Poplar, was playing on a high wall when be fell, badlyjlacerating his scalp and bruising hir' self. He was admitted to ...

... The Representatives of the Powers in Congress assembled have, taken a resolution to maintain secrecy, and have solemnly explained to the expectant corre- spondents that the pledge will be maintained this time, and that it was not maintained in r878 because the facts leaked out through envoys of the smaller Powers, to whom something was necessarily communicated under diplomaeiteserve. We -make ...

... AlN INSPIRED HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR.-Hi. Wa resume to-day the version of the events of the late war which the friends of the Grand Duke Nicholas wish to pass current in Western Europe. Two questions have already been dealt with. The third question which the vindicator of the Grand Duke attempts to answer in La Vouvelie ,7z ue is why the crossing of the Danube was effected with such facility. ...

... THE GRANT TO SIR BARTLE FRERE, The T2imes cannot blame Sir Wilfrid Lawson and those who thinik with him for asserting their own opinions, even against their political friends and their official leaders; nor, on the other hand, if the Ministers are willing to accept the responsibility of maintaining Sir Bartle Frere at the head of affairs at the Cape, would it be reasonable to say that they ...

... I .1 - It now appears to be doubtful whether, after all, the motion for the recall of Sir Bartle Frere is to be dropped, as was supposed yesterday. Sir Wilfrid Lawson assumed that an opportunity for discussion would be afforded in taking the vote for Sir Bartle Frere's salary. This vote will not now, for reasons given by Mr. Grant Duff, be necessary. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, therefore, is able to ...

... MR. BRADLAUGH'S CLAIM. The Tihnes thinks that, if the seat of Mr. Bradlaugh is not rendered vacant either by his own act or by the act of the House of Commons, there remains only the alternative of the Rothschild and Salomons Flecedent, which would leave Mr. Bradlaugh member for Northampton. As matters stand at present, this would exclude him during the term If the present Parliament from all ...

... ? . - -- -f- I . 'The attempt to make party capital against the Government out of their reported intention to have the evacuation of Afghanistan completed by the f nd of October is not well judged. The withdrawal of our troops is well known by all who take the trouble to inform themselves to be a matter of necessity. Lord Cranbrook knows this as well as Lord Hartington, and he not only knows ...

... IT must have struck many persons, even those least interested in political machinery, as not a little curious that while several members on both sides of the House have been unseated by the election judges, in no case have the victims been declared guilty of personal corruption; and no prosecution has hitherto been instituted against either the actual givers or the actual receivers of bribes. ...

... Mayallroad Schoolroom, under the presidency Mr. S. Kemp-Welch, who was supported Professor Thorold llogers, M.P., Mr. H. Bioadhurst, M.P., Mr. W. Saunders, and Mr. W. F. Robinson, one the Liberal candidates for East Surrey tho election. Professor Rogers, in the course some remarks upon the Liberal measures now before the country, said that was strongly in favour giving due justice to the ...