20 JANUARY 1900, page 3

On Friday Week (january 12th) M. Zola, On Being Pre.

sented with a gold medal by his admirers at the office of the Siècle, made a long and striking speech. If it was only a question of saving an innocent man, they might be content......

The Death Of Dr. James Martineau, Which Took Place Last

Thursday week, was announced too late for our last issue. The great Unitarian minister, who came of Huguenot descent on his father's side, was horn in 180.5 in Norwich—then a......

A Useful Abstract Of Mr. Austin Lee's Report On The

economic condition of the French colonies appears in the Times of Wednesday. The recent growth of "Greater France" is strikingly illustrated in this paper, as well as the......

The American Correspondent's General Impression Is That...

an American." That is, we believe, true, and to this fact is due the studied rudeness with which America has been treated by the Boers. People here and in the United States......

The Times Of Saturday Last Contains A Despatch From Laffan's

Agency giving an account of an American journalist's inter- views with the two Boer Presidents. Mr. Kruger was quite amiable in his own peculiar way, though he expressed the......

The Moral And Political Issues Involved In The...

now being tried at Milan, are little less serious for Italy than those of the Dreyfus affair have been for France. Signor Notarbarbolo, who was appointed by the Minister of the......

Mr. Dooley's Comments On The Conduct Of The War And

the tactics of the opposing forces are quite as much to the point as those of our Continental critics, and a great deal more entertaining. " Th' British marches up with their......

Bank Rate, 41 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday 101i.......