12 AUGUST 1899, page 2

Mr. Chamberlain In The Course Of His Speech Answering The

criticisms passed on his Department, dealt chiefly with the Hut-tax and the alleged withholding of the Report of Sir David Chalmers. He showed that, in fact, it was only with-......

The Speech Was Not Seriously Attacked From Any Side, Except

by Sir W. Wedderburn, who repeated his usual statements as to the "starveling" condition of the ryota, statements which we believe are made in sincerity, but are true only thus......

It Is Quite Evident That The Rumours Of A Projected

al!iance between Japan and China, which have been so angrily denied, rest upon a solid foundation. The Russian Government does not act upon rumour, and M. de Giers, the Foreign......

On Monday, While The Country Was Keeping Bank Holiday The

House of Commons was busy passing the second reading of the Appropriation Bill. The discussion on such an occa- sion, though it reads like a kind of Parliamentary nightmare, and......

Lord George Hamilton Must Be A Happy Man This Week.

The regular business of a Secretary of State for India when introducing his Budget is to apologise for it, to show that the deficit was due to exchange, or war, or famine, to......

Mr. Chamberlain Went On To Declare That The Result Of

a very careful consideration of the main issue—i.e., the Hut-tax in the hinterland of Sierra Leone—was to convince him that that imposition was neither unfair nor impolitic. If......

The Paris Correspondent Of The Times Has Given His Readers

a sensation. He states, on authority which he has frequently found accurate, that the real motive of M. Delcasse's hurried visit to St. Petersburg is to prevent the abdication......