... PLAIN-SPEAKING. The principal speakers at the Irish Church defence meeting in Mani pester on Tuesday eight were present on the following day at a puidic breakfast la the Free-trade:tail Assembly Roue. The speeches contained several carious passages. The ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. The Colonial Secretary went on to criticise the Transvaal Political Association, and referred in ironical terms to Mr. Robinson's speech He did not think that either of the races in Sotth Africa could care to replace Downing-street rule ...

... SPEAKING UP FOR HERSELF. singular case has been for some time put before the Civil Tribunal It was a suit brought by the mother and other relatives of the Princess leabean de fleauvati-Cisoe, to obtain judicial interdiction of the management of the Princess's ...

... LORD CARRINGTON SPEAKS. Ln rd Carrington, epeaking at a Liberal meeting at Southport on the 21st inst., dealt at some length with the proceedings of the Welsh Land Commiseion, and said the recommendations of the Conservative minority themselves made it ...

... Till DUMB SPEAKS. A Cardiff correspondent mends the following extraordinary story : A meet singular experience bas just beta= a Rhondda collier, awned David Davies, of Tryberbert. He was one of the many sufferers by the memorable explosion at Pinyon* ...

... LORD LONDONDERRY SPEAKS. The Marquis of Londonderry, addressing • Primrose League demonstration at Wynyard- Park. Stockton-on-Tees, on Saturday, said the new Education Act would place on a sound basis the whole of their system of education, and not only ...

... NOT ON SPEAKING TEEMS. Considerable sensation was caused in the House of Common' the other day (says the .Voill by the otat«ucnt in the papers that owing to the holding leu•t of the laulystoithdeepatehee, an ofßeer wLo was ded for the Y.C. had never ...

... KAISER WILLIAM SPEAKS. The session of the German Reichstag was opened on Tuesday at the Royal Castle in Berlin by the Emperor William. In his speech from the Throne his Majesty announced various bills affecting the welfare of workmen, including the measure ...

... CHILDREN'S SPEAK. PIPE. A curious and ingenious method of encouraging children to learn Biblical and moral sayings is the Children's Speak Pipe, invented by Archdeacon Colley, and which at stated times is mounted to Communicate with a hole in the ...

... A BICESTKB MAN SPEAKS. When an incident like the following occurs and a Bicester cosu relates his esperienea in • Sioester newspaper for the bentfit of Bicester people, its genuinenees esonot be doubted. It deserves close attention. It has the ring of ...

... 311.781 C AND PUBLIC SPEAKING. Sir Walter Parrott, Master of the King's itlmir and organist of St. George's Chno.l, Windsor, made a vig orous atitck on m bvinn mode in an adress which he il. , !:•••.,1 ni the Conference of Teachers at the litlbors Re ...

... MR. JOHN REDMOND SPEAKS. Mr. John Redmond, Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party, addressing a Nationalist meeting at Manchester on Sunday, criticised the recent @peach of Lord Salisbury, who, be said, had made it clear that it was not by conciliation ...