Word: parliament
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...paper on the "Conquest of the Mayos." The writer gives a summary of what is known of the early history of Yucatan and adds an account of the battles between the Spaniards and the natives for the possession of the peninsula. Colonel Baillie, a member of the English Parliament, kept a journal while visiting this country in 1828, of which several portions are printed in this number. The impressions of the traveller in regard to American matters and the account of his journeyings are very amusing. The number ends with the usual departments...
...interesting debate took place at the Union last evening on the subject of the Irish Coercion Bill, now pending before the British Parliament...
...Coulson, on the negative, criticised severely the ground taken by the preceding speaker. Mr. Gladstone, said he, has denounced this Coercion Bill as the most causeless and insulting bill ever introduced into Parliament. Instead of being the home of criminals, as so many say it is, Ireland is a country exceptionally free from crime, and statistics prove it. Under coercion, in 1881, the number of crimes committed in Ireland was more than four times greater than those committed in 1886 when there was no coercion. Relatively to the population, England and Scotland are far more criminal countries than Ireland...
Edinburgh University is to have a new hall for graduation ceremonies. Parliament granted $60,000 to purchase a site, and Mr. McEwan, M. P., presented the University with the sum of $250,000 for the erection of the hall itself...
Deutscher Verein. Lecture in German: Bismarck and the German Parliament. Dr. Kuno Francke. Sever...