17 MARCH 1877, page 1

M. Besancon, Deputy For Metz To The German Reichatag, Drew

on Monday a pathetic picture of the consequences of annexa- tion to that city. There are 3,000 empty homes, and the value of property has fallen from 90,000,000 marks to......

The Rumour That Germany Intends, If Russia Goes To War

or disarms, to attack France has grown stronger all the week. We have shown elsewhere some reasons for distrusting it, but may add here that it is possible the military party in......

Mr. Chamberlain's Speech, On Tuesday, In Moving His...

for giving municipalities power to compel the sale to them, on fair compensations, of the retail liquor-businesses within their jurisdiction, was a marked Parliamentary success.......

It Is One Of The Defects Of The London Press

that it will never give us speeches from Berlin in extmo. Prince Bismarck has evidently been groaning again over his worries, a symptom which with him always means that he is......

President Hayes Has Carried His Cabinet. He Caused It To

be signified that he would not yield, and it is hinted, that Senator Cameron might have a European Mission, but should not keep his son in the War Department, and the opposition......

The Stories From The East Are Not Peaceful. The Insurrection

in Bosnia has assumed larger proportions, and the incessant out- rages on the population are exciting them to madness. The tax-gatherers visit the villages followed by......

News Of The Week.

T HE Government has replied to the latest Russian proposal by cepting it "in principle," and rejecting it in fact. General Ign4eff, according to the best accounts, asked that......

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