ENGLAND IN EGYPT. The Duke of Albany’s Marriage Announced--Mr. Bradlaugh Again--Procedure Reform--The Closure at Last--The Peers Co-operate with the Parnellites--Their Attacks on the Land Act--Mr. Forster’s Policy of “Thorough”--A Nation under Arrest--Increase in Outrages--Sir J. D. Hay and Mr. W. H. Smith bid for the Parnellite Vote--A Political Dutch Auction--The Radicals Outbid the Tories--Release of Mr. Parnell and the Suspects--The Kilmainham Treaty--Victory of Mr. Chamberlain--Resignation of Mr. Forster and Lord Cowper--The Tragedy in the Phœnix Park--Ireland Under Lord Spencer--Firm and Resolute Government--Coercion Revived--The Arrears Bill--The Budget--England in Egypt--How Ismail Pasha “Kissed the Carpet”--Spoiling the Egyptians--Mr. Goschen’s Scheme for Collecting the Debt--The Dual Control--The Ascendency of France--“Egypt for the Egyptians”--The Rule of Arabi--Riots in Alexandria--The Egyptian War--Murder of Professor Palmer--British Occupation of Egypt--The Queen’s Monument to Lord Beaconsfield--Attempt to Assassinate Her Majesty--The Queen’s Visit to Mentone--Marriage of the Duke of Albany. The Parliament of 1882 was opened on the 7th of February, and the Queen’s Speech announced the approaching marriage of the Duke of Albany. Foreign affairs were hopefully touched on. Local self-government, London municipal reform, bankruptcy reform, corrupt practices at elections, the conservancy of rivers, and the codification of the Criminal Law, were the subjects of promised legislation. Very early in the Session Mr. Bradlaugh renewed his attempt to take the Parliamentary Oath, but was again excluded from the precincts of the House by a resolution moved by Sir Stafford Northcote. On the 21st of February the House refused to issue a new writ for Northampton, and Mr. Bradlaugh, after the division, proceeded to swear himself in at the Clerk’s table. Sir Stafford Northcote accordingly moved and carried a resolution expelling him from the House. This caused a fresh election to be held at Northampton, the result of which was that Mr. Bradlaugh was again returned by a triumphant majority. On the 6th of March Sir Stafford Northcote proposed a resolution excluding Mr. Bradlaugh from the precincts of the House, and then, sated with its saturnalia of intolerance, the Opposition permitted Ministers to get on with the most pressing question of the hour--the reform of Procedure. The proposals of the Government were, in the main, identical with those which the Speaker had designed to defeat obstruction in the previous Session; but they were to be of permanent application, and not dependent on the carrying of a vote of urgency. It was provided that a debate might be closed, on the Speaker’s initiation, by a bare majority, only there must, in that case, be at least two hundred Members voting in favour of closure if as many as forty members opposed it; but if