NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE visit of M. Poincare, the President of the French Republic, has been an unqualified success. He landed on Tuesday at Portsmouth, where be was met by the Prince of Wales. On reaching London he was welcomed at Victoria Station by the King and heartily cheered by crowds as he drove through the decorated streets to St. James's Palace. After paying the customary round of ceremonial visits, the President attended a reception to the French colony given by M. Cambon at the French Embassy, and in the evening was entertained at a State banquet at Buckingham Palace. King George, who proposed his health, spoke of the steady growth of deep mutual respect and goodwill between the two nations, and their harmonious co-operation in matters of international concern since the signing of the agreement of 1904. Both Governments bad kept constantly in view the cause of peace; they had approached the grave international questions which had arisen during the past months in a spirit of mutual confidence and frankness, and it was a source of the highest satisfaction to them to reflect that all the Great Powers concerned had consulted together and worked for peace. The King alluded to the President's twofold claims to distinction as a statesman and an Academician, and expressed his warm appreciation of the generous tribute which on two occasions last year be had paid to the memory of Queen Victoria and King Edward.
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