19 JANUARY 1907, page 1

A Curious Incident At Smyrna This Week Shows The Prestige

which attaches to British protection in the Near East. Kiamil Pasha, once Grand Vizier to the Sultan, and a good example of the respectable older Turkish school, fell out of......

It Was Hoped At First That The Accounts Of The

damage and loss of life bad been exaggerated, but reports from the Governor and eye-witnesses of the disaster state that already three hundred and forty-three bodies have been......

Soudan,• Taking For His Text The Slight• Increase—less...

all told—in the Budget of the Egyptian Ministry for War for 1907. The relations" of the Government with Abyssinia are excellent, nor is any trouble feared from Dar Fur, but the......

The Third Assembly Of French Bishops, Summoned To Discuss...

Separation Law, met in Paris on Tuesday. The Bishop of Dijon, one of • the secretaries, has just returned from Rome, and it is hoped that he may have instructions from the......

Nance.—with This Week's Number Of The " Spectator." Is...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,--i.e., from July 7th to December 29th, 1906, inclusive.......

News Of The Week.

K INGSTON, the capital of Jamaica, founded by the Bur- vivors of the earthquake which ruined Port Royal in 1692, and the most prosperous and important town in the British West......

The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript, In Any...

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On Friday Week M. Poincare, The Minister Of Finance In

the late Cabinet, opened in the Senate the criticism of the new French Budget. He explained that a new financial policy had arisen, a policy of adventure, which saw no harm in......