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Show Gladstone Confined toHis Jtoom. London, March 25. Gladstone'is ill. He caught cold yesterday and is to-day confined to his room. He is suffering from chills and diarrhoea. The attending physicians have forbidden him to go out of the house. Gladstone will therefore be unable to go to the Commons to-day. He had appointed to-. night as the date on which he would name the day for the presentation of his Irish proposals. It is generally expected he would accompany his announcement to-night with a short speech, which should intimate the nature of his Irish scheme: Gladstone has decided to have the programme pro-gramme he had marked out for himself in the Commons this evening carried out, despite his inability to be present. Sir Wm. Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ex-chequer, therefore spoke for the Premier, and said Gladstone would announce his policy April 8th. |