18 MARCH 1899, page 2

We Do Not Quite Understand The News From The Philippines.

The Americans believe they have forty thousand men there ; they win every engagement with small loss—for example, they defeated four thousand Filipinos this week at Pasig, with......

During The Discussion Of The Colonial Estimates On...

10th, Mr. Chamberlain made what we cannot doubt to be a very wise, and also practical, proposal. The Government is going to assist in the establishment of a special institution......

Mr. 3. H. Choate, The New American Ambassador, Was The

guest of the Associated Chambers of Commerce on Wednes- day evening, and made a most successful first appearance. He began by expressing the appreciation felt by his country-......

During The Past Week The Newspapers Have Been Full Of

sensational accounts of Mr. Rhodes's negotiations at Berlin, of his interviews with the Emperor, and of his visits to the Reichstag. The residuum of fact in this telegraphic......

The Vienna Correspondent Of The Times Continues To Regard...

secession of the German Catholics in Austria to Pro- testantism as important. He says the agitation in Styria goes on with "intense activity," and is extending from the towns to......

The Times Of Thursday Publishes A Correspondence Between...

V. Dicey and its own Paris correspondent which for the first time makes it clear what the Dupuy law on the Court of Caseation does and does not do. It does force that Court to......

The New Spanish Cortes, Which Will Be Conservative, Will...

in June, and it is understood that Senor Silvela will lay before them a complete plan of reforms in all branches of the administration. The most urgent of these is a reform in......

We Note With Satisfaction That The Figaro This Week Prints

an account of an interview between the Pope and M. Boyer d'Agen in regard to the Dreyfus case, in which the Pope is reported to have said :—" Let no one hope to make a religions......

The Trial Of M. Urbain Gohier For Libelling The French

Army ended on Tuesday in an unexpected verdict. M. Gohier had vehemently arraigned the whole system, declaring that the barracks were hotbeds of vice and disease, that the......