25 FEBRUARY 1899, page 9

The Congestion Of London.

S IR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY is a bold man. In his attack upon the cabs he had the masses behind him. It is the classes that use them, and it is the masses that are inconvenienced......

The Value Of Ceremonial.

M LOUBET is determined, it is said, not to imitate his • predecessor in seeking to assume an artificial dignity, but to live among his friends, and especially among Senators and......