... through, and that the United States was declared capable of bolding colonies. And finally there the fourth Const, tution that has been evolved the subtle play of custom and precedent. Thus, no man may times President the United States ; the Senate will ...

... tion of merchant vessels into ships of war. General Horace Porter (United States) observed that question only concerned those States which had adhered the Treaty of Paris. The United States would abstain from voting as that country was not a party to ...

... in the competition were Sunderland, Bolton Wanderers, West Brom- wich Albion, and Liverpool. The matches between Sheffield United and Bury, Derby County and Notts County, and Wolverhampton Wanderers aud j Notts Forest were drawn. The Ist round of the ...

... President of the United States, at the request of China, to advise the Envoys on the last occasion. All the preliminary negotiations seem to have passed through the American Representatives at Pekin and Tokio, and there is no doubt that the United States have ...

... notice that he intended on the 2d of May to submit a resolution in favour of re- ducing the postage between the United Kingdom and the United States of America from threepence to one penny. In reply to a question from Colonel Taylor, the Marquis of Hartington ...

... price of provisions had been enhanced of late years, no application had been made for an increase of the Civil List. Tbe question of the Civil List had not, however he insisted, anything whatever to do with the vote, as the invitations to the Sultan ...

... probability of differences arising similar to those which had arisen in reference to certain claims of the United States growing out of the recent civil war in that country, her Majesty's Government had advised the Crown to issue a royal commission to inquire ...

... institutions be elaborated by a nation which ! was struggling in perpetual commotions., and raging with the chronic fever of civil strife. The first step, therefore, towards any improvements that have a chance of being permanent is gradually felt to be i ...

... grievances they were intended to redress. We see in the quietude which reigns throughout Ireland an assur- ance that the resettlement of the Irish land tenure has already borne satisfactory and promising fraits. Never was a measure more admirably contrived ...

... Lord Hartington, nor Mr. Gladstone, nor any other responsible mem- ber cf the Liberal Party has presumed to deny that the resettlement of the Eastern Question is a matter of European concern, and that Russia ha 3 no right to dispose of it single-handed. ...

... Expiring Laws Continuance Bill and the Public Works Loans Bill were read a second time. The House then wont into Committee on the Civil Service Estimates, which occupied the re- mainder of the sitting until midnight. On the vote for the diplomatic service some ...

... augmented, so that nearly an equivalent of live sheep had been received as fresh mutton. The receipts of live sheep into the United Kingdom from all foreign countries were in the six months ended June 80, 1889, 174,975 less than in the corresponding period ...