26 MAY 1900, page 2

From Natal The News Is Also Satisfactory, Except For The

ambuscading of a troop of Bethune's Horse, which, though from a military point of view quite unimportant, is a humiliat- ing episode. General Buller has now driven the Boers......

The Decennial Representation Of The Passion Play At...

last Sunday, and the spectators, who numbered some four thousand, seem to be unanimous in saying that it has not deteriorated. The acting of the new Christ, Anton Lang, is......

The German Government Has Sustained Something Of A Defeat In

the Reichstag. Under pressure from the Clerical party, and, it is reported, from the Emperor, who abhors license, the Ministry supported a Bill called, from its framer, the Lox......

The Very First Announcement Of The Measure Diminished The...

majority. H. de Cassagnae had made a speech implying that as Paris had gone Nationalist the Government stood condemned. M. Waldeck - Rousseau replied by quoting the really......

Count Goluchowski On May 19th Made A Speech To The

Delegations which illustrates the peculiar position of the Austrian Empire. The real anxiety of the delegates was to know what was happening within the Balkan Peninsula, Was......

A New Secret Society Calling Itself That Of "the Boxers"

is giving trouble in China. Its central purpose is anti-foreign, and its method is to raise riots, during which foreigners are threatened and Christian converts murdered......

The French Government Has, We Fancy, Made A Mistake. It

has promised to introduce two measures of great import- ance, one a severe law against the libelling of Officials, and the other an Income-tax, and many of its own supporters......

A New Mortara Case Has Occurred In Austria. A Jewish

girl of thirteen named Araten, who had disappeared from her father's house in Cracow, was found in a convent, and its inmates refused to deliver her up. Although the law is......

The Boer Delegates Are Not Making Much Of Their Visit

to Washington. Mr. Hay, the Secretary of State, has asked them to luncheon as "distinguished strangers "; but when they were received by the President they made no mention of......