It Is Hardly Necessary To Recommend The Marquis Ito To
English society and politicians as the Times has done, for the attraction of Japan and her people for Englishmen is even exaggerated, and the Marquis is unquestionably the first......
A Recent Speech By Signor Prinetti In The Italian Parlia-
ment has spread abroad two ideas,—that Italy is abandoning the Triple Alliance for the sake of better relations with France, and that France in return has agreed that Italy......
We Print Elsewhere An Account, Which We Have Every Reason
to believe accurate, of the negotiations between France and Siam under which France is endeavouring to acquire another province. Those negotiations derive their importance for......
A Telegram From Mombasa, Dated December 21st, Was...
Monday's Times, announcing that the first locomotive had reached Port Florence, the terminus of the Uganda Railway on Victoria Nyanza. The line, which was begun just six years......
A Mania For High Gambling Is Reigning In Vienna, And
as usual the most extraordinary stories are in circulation. It is asserted, for instance, that Count Potocki lost in one evening £90,000, and had, though one of the richest......
The Owners Of The Panama Canal, That Is, Of The
concession and of the works began on the Isthmus, have apparently not lost hope of selling their rights and plant to the United States. They at first destroyed their own chances......
Thibet Is Almost The Only Country Of Importance Which Still
prohibits entrance to European travellers and merchants. This is said not to be due to the jealousy of the ruling Lamas, but to the policy of Pekin, which dreads both intrusion......
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