... SPEAKS. It it stated that the reply of the Transvaal Government to the last British despatriies has been sent off from Pretoria, and that is to the effect that the South African Republic sTictlv adheres to the London Convention of 1884. and asks for nothing ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. A London writer in a Liverpool paper on Wed- nesday says:—A lot of unpleasant truths were uttered last night at the National Liberal Club by the members of the Liberal and Radical Union. Gladstonians of high and low degree denounced the ...

... THE RKJECTUD SPEAKS. THE rsjaoted of South Glamorgan, Cardiff, and Gllwer ha.s delivered a political address in the last-named constituency. Ho is evidently pre. paring for another'defeat, and from his speech I glean i-hat ho sees no opportunity of again ...

... THE QUEEN SPEAKING. Her Majesty astonished her Welsh subjects to- day by speaking in Welsh. In returning thanks for some of the presents she received at Palé this afternoon, where she was presented with a walk- ing stick, her Majesty responded: Diolch ...

... BALFOUR SPEAKS. ADDRESS TO HIS CON- STITUENTS. POLICY OF DISSOLU- TION. WILL NOT PRODUCE HIS OWN PROPOSALS. DISSOLVE; NOTHING BUT DISSOLVE. CRITICISM OF LIBERAL POLICY. WEAKNESS OF THE HOUSE THE POWER OF THE CONSTITUENCIES. Mr A. J. Balfour, on Wednesday ...

... ON FORENSIC SPEAKING. It is a long time since any such eloquence as that to which Sir Charles Russell is treating the Parnell Commission has been heard in an English court of justice. In saying this I am not thinking (remarks the correspondent of the ...

... THE SECRETARY SPEAKS. of I The following oircumstances, drawn from the is personal experience of Mr Isaa Whick, of the, Boough Arms, Dudley Street, Wednesbury, are . so important and really remarlkable that they iq cannot help but be of interest and ...

... search for good, And speak of all the best we tan. Then speak no ill-but lenient be To others' feelings as your own; If you're the fast a aultto see, Be not the first to make it known. For life is but a passing day, No lip may ten how short its span; Then ...

... PUBLIC SPEAKING. WE are told that the Americans cultivate the art of public speaking more than is the case in the old country, as our Transat- lantic cousins delight to designate England. Refined Romans were fond of eloquence, and the voice of CICBRO ...

... DEAD, BUT SPEAKING. IF anything might justly be said against the propriety of commemorating the cen- tenary of the death of JOHN WESLEY, it is the very apparent fact that that good and great man was never more alive than he is to-day. Few persons have ...

... EVIL SPEAKING. The delusive itch for slander too common in all ranks of peo- ple, whether to gratify a little ungenerous resentment; whether, oftener, out of a principle of levelling, from a narrowness and poverty of soul, ever impatient of merit and ...

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