25 FEBRUARY 1899, page 2

On Saturday The House Of Commons Debated Mr. Field's...

advocating the purchase of Irish railways by the State in order to get rid of their admitted inefficiency. Mr. Gerald Balfour with good reason—and here he was supported by Mr.......

The Protracted Crisis In Hungary Is Over For The Day.

Baron Banffy has resigned, as was predicted by the Times correspondent some weeks ago, but his successor, M. Koloman Szell, is still not firm in the saddle. He is supported by......

Arbitration Seems To Be A Difficult Mode Of Settling Inter-

national disputes. The "British and American Joint High Commission" for settling everything in dispute between the United States and Canada has adjourned its sittings to August......

The Controversy Over The Remains Of The Mabdi, And As

to whether all or only part of those remains were thrown into the Nile, strikes us as somewhat absurd. When bodies are daily dissected, skeletons freely sold, and pieces of......

England And France Are Once More Jarring. The Govern- Ment

of Paris, moved by some occult influence, recently demanded of the Sultan of Oman, who rules from Muscat the whole southern coast of Arabia, that he should lease them a......

There Have Been Sensational Rumours During The Week Of...

of the Khalifa's power and of an advance in force on Omdurman, but they rest on no solid foundation. The facts, as stated in the House on Thursday, are that on February 5th......

The Insurrection In Luzon Is Obviously Serious. Aguinaldo...

a proclamation stating that the Filipinos prefer even Spaniards to Americans, and plainly ordering a massacre of the latter, and on Wednesday the insurgents endeavoured to act......

The Debate On The Distress In The West Was Continued

on Monday night, when Mr. Lecky pointed out that it was not the Government or the landlords who were to blame for the distress, but the Atlantic Ocean. The peasants of the West......