... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... under the direc- tion cf the Treasury, apply to the Civil Servica Commis- sioners when tbey want a writer for the service, and the rtmunex ation of a writer under these circam_tanoes is settled by the Civil Service Commissioners at 104. per Lour, with perm__s ...

... I (Hear, bear.) Talk of the united churches of England and Ireland ! Did not any man who resided in Ireland know that that was a mere parliamentary fiction and legal phrase. (Hear, hear.) There was no such thing as a united churoh. He was aware that amongst ...

... their former '• rights. v Every one perceives that this is a decree of confiscation broad in theory, and thus generally I resettling the tenure of land, and yet susceptible of j an almost inexhaustible ciemency of application in the event ofthe talookdars ...