23 JUNE 1900, page 3

In The House Of Commons On Monday, Mr. Chamberlain Explained

the new compromise that has been arrived at in regard to the question of Australian appeals. Under the new plan, the right of appeal is only to be restricted in a single case......

Men Doubt Sometimes The Genius Of M. Thiers For Foreign

affairs, but he certainly had a rare insight into the position of foreign States. In January, 1871, he told his friends that they were all at sea as to the resources of Great......

The Prince De Joinville, Thin?, And Last Surviving Son Of

Louis Philippe, died at Paris on Saturday last in his eighty- second year. As a young man he served with distinction in the naval expedition against Mexico in 1838, being......

Sir Gordon Sprigg Has Formed A New Cabinet. The Ministers

are :—Premier and Treasurer, Sir Gordon Sprigg ; Attorney-General, James Rose-Inner ; Commissioner of Public) Works, Dr. Smartt; Secretary for Agriculture, Sir Pieter Faure ;......

It Is With Great Regret That We Record The Death

of Lord Loch on Wednesday. His career would have been a very remarkable one even without his Chinese captivity (when he endured torture, and only managed to evade by fifteen......

We Trust That The "stories Of The War " By

Mr. RI:0yard Kipling which are appearing in the Daily Express will be very widely read. We are anxious that they should be read because they contain lessons of the war, moral......

On Tuesday Lord Salisbury Addressed A Speech To The Society

for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts marked by a great deal of feeling. The subject of his address was, in effect, the need for discretion among missionaries. He......

Mr. Chamberlain, Who Followed The Duke Of Devonshire, Did...

speak more severely than is required when he con- demned " the efforts of a small knot of self-righteous persons in this country who have done their best to calumniate their......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

New Consols (21) were on Friday 100i.......