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ECHOES OF THE WEEK

... Sunderland Daily Echo AMD GAZETTE. Monday, August 9th, 1886. The New Parliament is getting itself constituted rapidly. Peel is once again Speaker, with the cordial consent of the whole House. In a few days Mr Leonard C urtney will be again Chairman of Ways and Means, and Lord Randolph Churchill is Leader of the House. The new members strike one as very nice set of fellows, with irreproachable ...

ECHOES OF THE WEEK

... Sunderland Daily Echo AMD SHIPPING GAZETTE. Monday, September 20tii, 1886. I have been much impressed with ono aspect of the controversy about Mr Paruell's Bill, the second readiug of which will be moved to-night. The Times has condemned the measure, root and branch, with wonderful heartiness ; Tory and Whig journals have alternately cursed and sneered at it ; but the laissez-faire ...

THE HOME RULE DEBATE

... SPEECH BY MR STOREY. The adjourned debate on the Ireland Hill was resumed last night in the ™o of Commons by Mr H. Fowler with speech favour of the second reading. Replying t0 argument that the scheme was a step towa separation, he insisted that there were * guarantees against that, which the bill did create and could not destroy. These were . material interests of Ireland and the forces of ...

ECHOES OF THE WEEK

... AMD SHIPPING GAZETTE. Monday, August 23rd, 1886. What a fool's paradise our English politicians and newspaper writers have been living in with respect to Bulgaria. We were told that English influence predominated there, that the Bulgarian people hated Russia, although she had delivered them by force of arms from the Turks, that Prince Alexander was our faithful ally, and that he and his army ...