18 AUGUST 1894, page 1

Friday's News From Corea Is Very Vague. All That Is

certain is that the Japanese are continuing to pour fresh troops into the peninsula. Their number is now believed to reach fifty thousand men, and for Asiatic troops they are......

News Of The Week.

I T is stated that last Friday week a Japanese fleet sailed to the mouth of the Gulf of Peohili and attacked the two great Chinese arsenals, Port Arthur and Wei-hai-wei, which......

The Debate In The Lords On The Evicted Tenants Bill,

which lasted through Monday and Tuesday evenings, was a rather lop-sided, though an extremely able, debate. The only speech of great force on the Ministerial side was Lord......

The Result Of The Great Anarchist Trial In France Is

not what any one, least of all the authorities, can call satis- factory. The jury, unconvinced—and, as we think, rightly —that the prisoners all formed part of a great criminal......

On Tuesday, France And The Congo Free State Signed An

agreement which completes the ruin of the much- belauded agreement entered into by as with the King of the Belgians last May. We had proposed to form a buffer-State between our......

On Thursday Morning Caserio Santo, The Murderer Of...

was guillotined at Lyons. Caserio refused to see a priest or to take a cordial, but trembled violently when at the scaffold. His last words were " Courage, com- rades ; vive......

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