... 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 ...

... UNDAUNTED WOMAN IF anything could dishearten women, and drive them to despair, the prospect of their exclusion this session from all share iu the Franchise Bill might have that effect. They have worked very hard for admission to the privilege, and have hitherto failed to in- fluence those whose co-operation is in the highest degree necessary to success. Mr WooDALL's amendment proposing to ...

... The Press Association Dublin correspondent telegraphed on Tuesday The Dublin police dis- covered last night 20 bilis printed on black- bordered paper, with the words Impregnable Invincibles will have revenge God save Ireland! Cartridges were attached to the documents, with green ribbon. One placard, with a cartridge attached, was found in the letter-box of the Privy Council Chamber, Dublin ...

... COnHESPONDINCE. SPECTATOR (Pentyrch).—Your coinimuiieaLoii c .nn-t appear anonymously. CRXMONA's wiil hare our early attention. ...

... INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. SUMMER MEETING AT CARDIFF. PROGRAMME OF PROCEEDINGS. A meeting of the executive committee appointed to make arrangements for the meeting of the la- stitute of Mechanical Engineers at Cardiff in August next, was held in the Grand Jury-room of the Town-hall on Wednesday evening. Mr T. Forster Brown presided, and there were present Sir E. J. Reed, K.C.B., M.P., ...

... [RENTER'S TELEGRAM.] NEW YORK, Fridiy.-Tlie Sugamore Cotton Mills at Fall River, Massachusetts, have been destroyed byiire. The loss is estimated at six hundred thousand dollars. ...