23 JANUARY 1897, page 9

The Expedition To Benin.

T HEpopular notion in this country that the British Government is an ill-informed one is, we are con- vinced by long experience, unfounded. Its agents have a, certain disdain......

Mr. Morley As I Party Speaker.

MR. MORLEY is improving greatly as a partisan, and declining as a statesman. His speech yesterday week at Broughty Ferry was a masterly plat- form speech, but in our opinion it......