11 MARCH 1899, page 2

In The House Of Commons On Monday Mr. Hanbury Un-

folded the Government's proposals in regard to the telephones. The Post Office intend in the future to exercise their un- doubted and absolute right to set up telephone......

An Accident, Dreadful Enough To Be An Event, Has Occurred

at Toulon. On Sunday morning, early, the Lagonban naval magazine near that great arsenal blew up, forty tons of cordite, or black powder, having from some unknown cause......

The Debate On The Army Estimates In The Commons On

Friday, March 3rd, was chiefly noteworthy for a speech by Mr. Balfour, in which he showed most impressively that the increase in Army and Navy expenditure is not, as is often......

In The House Of Lords On Friday, March 3rd, Lord

Kinnaird asked for a return of churches in which confessional boxes had been put up. Lord Dudley on behalf of the Home Office refused to agree to the return on the ground of the......

Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Aided By His Fine Constitution And...

will-power, has won his long fight with death. On Sunday he was pronounced out of danger, and since then his progress has been steady. He has still, however, some fever, and, as......

These Wise Words Were Fully Endorsed By Lord Salisbury, Who,

in a most impressive speech, regretted the spread of the practice of habitual confession. "Bat," said Lord Salisbury, "remember you are dealing with a spiritual matter, and I......

"major" Esterhazy Has Published Some More " Revela- Tions "

which substantially amount to this, that he is a per- secuted hero of discipline, for that whatever he did was done by order of his superiors on the Staff. The revelations do......

On Tuesday Mr. Lloyd George Moved A Resolution Attack- Ing

our system of primary education, and drew a lurid picture of the condition of the voluntary schools, of the tyranny of Church managers, the disabilities of Nonconformists who......