16 SEPTEMBER 1899, page 2

It Is A Melancholy Fact That While The Great Religious

papers of Rome thus exult in the conviction of Dreyfus, and while no Bishop or leading cleric in France has stepped forward to defend the innocent or preach the sacred- ness of......

It Is With Very Great Regret That We Note That

the official organs of the Vatican are reported to have accepted the decision of the Dreyfus case not with grief, but with satis- faction. The Osservalare _Romano, for example,......

The Annual Meeting Of The British Association Was Opened On

Wednesday at Dover with a somewhat tedious though thoughtful speech from the President, Sir Michael Foster. As this is the last year of the century, he dwelt upon the past, and......

On Saturday Lord Rosebery, At A Dinner Of The Employas

of the Caledonian Railway, made a speech in extenuation of railway unpunctuality. Railway passengers, he said, had doubled in number in twenty years, and of course the......

The Very Latest News As To Captain Dreyfus's Chances Of

regaining his liberty is reassuring. On Friday the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph announced on "the very highest authority " that "Captain Dreyfus is to be set at......

The Death Of Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt Is Reported From New

York. He died on Tuesday of the disease which kills American millionaires,—failure of the heart. He was only fifty-six years old. He was an important person in the United......

A Huge State Trial Began On Friday Week In Servia,

where twenty-seven persons, most of them leaders of the Radical party, are accused of high treason in conspiring to assist a man named Knezevitch to murder ex-King Milan. Kneze-......