18 FEBRUARY 1899, page 1

There Was Something Pathetic About The Position Of ,i....

a second-rate Lord Mayor at the head of a first-class military State. He had never succeeded as a Minister when in 1895 he was elected, as the man who had made fewest enemies,......

News Of The Week.

T HE unexpected event, which always happens in France, has arrived. On Thursday night the President, M. Faure, died of the Dreyfus case. His constitution was im- paired, his......

It Is Silly To Try To Predict What Eight Hundred

and eighty Frenchmen, all wild with excitement, and sharply hurried by the situation, may possibly do, but it is impossible not to think for a moment about M. Faure's successor.......

M. Dupuy, As Was Expected, Carried His Bill Transferring The

right of hearing appeals for revision from the Criminal Division of the Court of Cassation to the full Court. The debate, however, which came off on Friday week, was unex-......

The Lima' Paris Correspondent Attaches Immense Importance...

League of the Fatherland," which has now obtained many thousand signatures. Its promoters have organised it to protect the Army and appease dispntes, but it is under- stood to......

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case.......