19 MAY 1900, page 2

There Are The Usual Signs Of Unrest In The Balkan

Peninsula, and in Bulgaria in particular something is going on—a sort of peasant war apparently—about which the Government enforces silence, but there should be no serious......

In The Commons On Monday Mr. Chamberlain Introduced The...

Commonwealth Bill in a speech so lucid and so well constructed that it may be said without exaggeration to be the clearest and most effective presenta- tion of a Bill made to......

We Regret To Say That Sir Henry Campbell-bannerman Met Mr.

Chamberlain's proposal in a somewhat captious spirit. He was, of course, perfectly within his rights in arguing that the best plan would be to assent to the Bill just as it......

Mr. Birrell In The Course Of The Debate Talked Excellent

good sense when he declared that nothing that the House could do would prevent people liking objectionable plays. The only effective plan was for people to determine that when......

Mr. Chamberlain Was, However, Not Content With A Mere Non

possums. The Government propose, pending the formation of an Imperial Court of Appeal which shall em- brace the jurisdiction of both the House of Lords and the Judicial......

The Chancellor Of The Exchequer, Speaking To His Con....

on Wednesday night, repudiated with indignation the monstrous allegations that he had impeded our military operations by refusals to supply the requisite funds. All......

On Tuesday Mr. Samuel Smith Called Attention To "the Low

class of plays now exhibited in some of the theatres," and moved that a stricter supervision was needed "alike in the interest of the public and the theatrical profession." Mr.......

The News From Coomassie Is Gloomy, Though Not Quite...

The Governor of the Gold Coast is still shut up there, all the tribes apparently having risen, and is in such straits that he is credited by the latest accounts with a plan for......

The " Piety " Of President Kruger, Though Probably Genuine,

is not, it appears, of the kind which kills out super- stition. He trusts in the Lord, but nevertheless consults soothsayers. One of them, a lad, whose prediction, it is said,......