... THE ENGLISH SUNDAY CLOSING BlLL DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF . ~COMMIONtS. IMPORTANT SPEECH BY THE HOME SECRETARY. fiE BILL TALKED OUT, LSPECOAL TrLLaAGIA.3 LFRo1M OUR OGLLERY COflE5MDOM T.] WESTMINSTER, WznmNEsDsAx. This was essentially acold water dayandthough thedisciples of anational coldwaterbeveragecould .not score, they at any rate occupied one whole sitting. After the preliminary stages had ...

... I - 4 ]as! fF5104 OULt OWN CORltSPON3S'DEBrr1s ] 1fo ThURSDAY NcIGHT J th Lord Randolph Churchill, the newivy-1E elected president of the M:idland Conservative } th Club, at the commencement of his inaugural Id address at Birmingham last night paid hc a graceful and well-earned tribute to his of predecessor, Lord Windsor. In describing his lordship as a nobleman ardently devoted to the cause ...

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... At0INDON AND LOCAL NOTES. SC' [FROV &U&, OWN COERESPODENTS, I Dc TUESDAY NIGHT. iL The understanding that the Foot-and- Is 'Mouth 1ill of the Government would be con- n( 'sidered upon the question of the retention 1o of the Lords' Amendments brought down to as the House 'to-dav a large following of the °l squires, together with an equally formidable { ar force of the aposties of cheap beef and ...

... X THE DEBATE ON THE BnO~t- English taxpayers cannot regard Mr. CHILDmERSS Budget with much cheerfulness. It is unpleasant to learn that the growth of expenditure swallows up the whole enormous Revenue of eighty-five and a half millions sterling, with the exception of a paltry quarter of a million, a sum not large enough to supply any margin for contingencies-such, for instance, as a new ...

... On Monday at Westminster the hearing of an arbitration between the Great Western Railway Company and the Central Xales and Carmarthen t Junction Rrailway Company was proceeded with before thle Railway Com missioners, Sir F. Feel, Mr. Price, and Mr. Miller, Q.C.--rhs applicalits (the Great Western) are the owners of the South Wales r Railway, and work the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway, which ...

... THE PRIMROSE LE4,AUE. The first annual dinner of the Primrose , League in London was completely spoiled by B the enforced absence of Lord RANDOLPH t COuncHiLL, who lost his - voice through t speaking bareheaded at an open air meeting i in Birmingham last Wednesday, and could r not venture to leave his bed. Without e him the dinner was as the play of a Hamlet with the part of Hamlet c left ...

... LLANDAFF DIOCESAN COIRCH EXTENSION SOCIETY. e ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. Ads The annual general meeting of the members of iU,- the Lliandaff Diocesan Church Extension To: ~-Society was held at the Town-hail, Car- h M.diffl, on Thursday afternoon. The Bishop fot of Llandaff presided, and there were also set present Canon Hawkins, Canon Bury Cape], the cf Archdealcon of Llandaff, Precentor Wood, ...

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... be The Conservative demonstration which was pro- mit meted to introduce Lord Randolph Churchill to Mr. lair his newly-adopted candidature of Birmingham was her continued on Wednesday evening, when Lr the Randolph delivered his presidential address to the bin members of the Midland Conservative Club at a Lot meeting held in, the Town-hiall. He w eth accompanied by Colonel Burnaby, who also ...

... I WFmtrz Man. OUNcE, 4. 3 &. WFSsrats MnL. OFFICE, 4.30 &,a. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCO - . M, REPORTED FALL 01i pr In KHARTOUM. w l°o rs ItraR'S TrsLvGRoArt. re SuAvm, APRIL 14 (I ?? intended meeting an between Sheikh El f'nrghani and other sheikhs, b3 followers of Osmal Digna, has fallen through in or consequence of rumours that Khartoum and the In station at the Fifth Cataract bave been ...

... There were 4,818 births and S.760 deaths regie f tered last weok in London, Cardiff, and fourteen oi - the chief English towns. The births are slightly over the average, and considering the long con- tinuation of low temperature it is not surprising to find that there has been a marked increase in the rate of mortality, the deaths rising from 2,849 to 3,160, or 145 nmore than the averaLe. 1 ...