1 APRIL 1899, page 2

On Monday Mr. Courtney Raised A Strong Plea For The

private Member, and dwelt upon the useful functions which be had performed in the past, and was still capable of per. forming. He asked for a Select Committee to consider......

The Paris Correspondent Of The Times Records A Rumour As

to the forthcoming judgment of the Court of Cessation in the Dreyfus case to which he evidently attaches grave importance. It is that the Court without making any fresh inquiry......

Lord Curzon Evidently Does Not Believe That Silence Is...

The new Viceroy of India takes every opportunity of speaking in public, and like the Emperor William II. or any other absolute Sovereign, is sure always, at all events, of an......

Mr. Balfour's General Reply Showed Both Judgment And...

course there were plenty of omissions in the Bill, but how could any one Bill deal with all the aspects of so com- plicated a problem ? Omissions need not make men vote against......

The St. James's Gazette Deserves High Praise From All True

Imperialists for the way in which it deals in its leading article of Tuesday with the cases of cruel treat- ment of natives by Englishmen, just reported from .Western Australia.......

The Times Of Monday Contains A Summary Of The Petition

to the Queen which has been signed by twenty-one thousand British an bjects in the Transvaal. The petition points out the regular Outlander grievances, and notes that the......

The Debate On The London Bill In The House Of

Commons was concluded at an early hour last Saturday morning. Mr. Burns, though be declared that the Bill was, on the face of it, not so bad a Bill as some people might think,......