... PARLIAMENTAR Y SJUAJIAR Y. HOUSE OF LORDS. IN the House of Lords the business was merely formal. Their lordships adjconrned at twenty minutes past five o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. flfESTIONS and other preliminary business having been disposed of, Mr. ;l;dstone moved that the orders of the day be postponed until after his 1ton on the Land Act, and remarked that the Government were fully zensible ...

... i THE PRESS ON THE NE W POLICY FOR IRELAND. LONDO N. The Daily N1'eBs says it is understood that MIr. Forster still adheres to the system which has been hitherto adopted. Should he persevere, it is not likely that he will meet with much support in thc Cabinet. The Lord Chancellor and Lord Kimberley are believed to be in favour of existing arrangements, but they are not, however, supposed to be ...

... To whom and whatever else it has brought evil, there can be no doubt that the war in Egypt has done good to the Suez Canal. During the month of September 246 ships passed through it or into it, as compared with 1 99 in the same month of t 88 I, and only 11I9 in September, 8 8o. This great increase in the shipping was accompanied by a still more satisfactory augmentation of receipts. For the ...

... The Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom, a new number of which has just been pablished, continues to improve in Mr. Giffen's hands, and leads to the hope that one day we may see it perfect. For the first time we have a tolerably complete epitome of the local taxation receipts for the whole kingdom, although the data upon which it is based are still, we j believe, to a considerable ...

... PARLIAMENATAR Y SUMVHMAR Y. HOUSE OF LORDS. LORD GRANVILLE last evening stated that on' Friday he p roposed to move 'he adjournment ?? House from that day to the 24th of October. A' similar motion would'be made in. the other 'Hpuse. It was not the imtention' Df the Government to introduce in the House of Commons at ?? sitting any business except resolutions connected with the procedure of that ...

... NATIONALIZAT.ION OF LAND. To the EDITOR of 'tue PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,- Agreeing with you that the above theory as propounded by Mr. George is likely to tempt the masses much more than is comlrnm0ol imagined, ILregret extremely that Mr. Fawcett, in his mention of it the otlhe day, did not put forward the real argumnent against it. Mr. Fawcett said tiht lthe aeisiver- tcit was, Would the State ...

... OUGHT CETE11IWAYO TO BE RESTORED? IN the South of Africa, as in the North, a staus qto seems to have broken down. When the late Government left office they bequeathed an inheritance to their successors-a collection of as rickety political arrangements as ever were devised by a Laputan Adminis- tration. Without alluding to the Anglo-Turkish Convention, which was to regenerate Asia Minor and has ...

... PARLIAMENTAR Y SUMMARY. HOUSE OF COMMONS. - THE House yesterday was again engaged during the whole sitting in Com- mittee on the Crime Prevention Bill. At the commencement more than an hour was wasted in discussing the precise interpretation of Mr. Gladstone's concession at the previous sitting in regard to the right of search, which it was said the Home Secretary had to some extent repudiated ...

... arflid ?? ilewd, CETEWAYO TO VISIT ENGLAND. The Maritzburg correspondent of the Daily News ?? is officially announced here from Capetown that Cctewayo is to proceed to England at once. Mr. Henriquez Shepstone leaves here next Saturdav fox Capetown to accompany the ex-King. Two chiefs go with him. It is univer- .sally believed that this is only a step towards the restoration of Cetewayo In ...

... FENJIANIS I IN ENGLAND. TIm discovery of so large a store of concealed arms and ammunition in the heart of London is, on even the most easy-going inter- pretation of such matters, a thoroughly disquieting incident. It is possible, no doubt, to devise three or four explanations of which it may be perhaps said that they are not demonstrably false; nor can it be proved to a resolute sceptic that ...

... EPITOME -O-F CHOPINIO-N. AN AU1LMN: SESSION. The Daily Xezus says ?? It is probable that the Prime Minister 'iIl before long make a statement of ministerial intentions about the course of business to the House of Commons. The prospect of an autumn session will not be very welcome to legislatois who are fond of posing as overworked victims to civic duty. Nor wiliit give very much pleasure to, ...

... The news from Paris and Berlin this morning reveals a new phase ill the diplomatic situation. M. de Freycinet, it appears, is now TillingT if Turkey refuses the proposal of the Conference, to co0operate actively with England in restoring order in Egypt. Prince p! islllarck, moreover, to judge from the two inspired articles in the NorMth Gerlaan Gaze/is and the Cologne Gazell, has resumed his ...