26 SEPTEMBER 1891, page 1

News Of The Week.

T HE Vienna correspondent of the Standard vouches for a story which, if true, is the strongest testimony yet received to the genuineness of the German Emperor's desire for......

The News Of The Week From China Is Not Reassuring.

A plot has been discovered to seize the arsenal at Foochow, and it is believed that even Shanghai, the greatest of the ports open to foreigners, is threatened. The agitation is......

Mr. J. Morley Has Commenced The Campaign Of The Recess

from the Liberal side, but the speech he delivered at Cam- bridge on Monday is not very satisfying. He satirised the Liberal Unionists, and prophesied their extinction, and......

The German Emperor, Advised, It Is Said, By Prince Hohen-

lohe and Count Munster, has decreed the relaxation of the passport rules in Alsace-Lorraine. Indeed, except as against soldiers, they may be said to be abolished. They were im-......

Ex-president Balmaceda Has Passed Sentence On Himself,...

last he executed himself with a revolver. It appears that after his defeat he fled from Santiago, hoping to reach one of his steamers at a point along the coast. The steamer,......

Iv The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript, In Any

case.......

On Monday It Was Announced That Sir James Fergusson Had

been appointed Postmaster General. The appointment is probably as good a one as could have been made at the moment, for there is no inspired administrator available, and Sir......

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