29 DECEMBER 1906, page 2

Morocco Continues To Afford The World A Spectacle Of Un-

paralleled comedy. The Shereefian troops are drawn up on one side of Tangier, and Raisuli and his men on the other. The Minister of War, however, means business, and has......

In The Lords Several Bills Were Passed Through Their Last

stages. the Agricultural Holdings Bill leading to some sharp animadversion on the omission of amendments which bad been accepted by Lord Carrington. Lord Crewe demurred to the......

Die Information Gives Some Very Curious Instances Of The Way

in which the tie between Austria and Hungary is gradually loosening. For example, at the Sugar Convention held in Brussels the signature used was not that, as former]y, of......

Both Houses Of Parliament Met At Noon On Friday Week,

and in the Commons a number of questions were addressed to the Prime Minister by members of his party with a view to his considering the desirability of a new Standing Order......

The Case Against The Channel Tunnel Is Put With Admirable

force by M. Harduin, a well-known French journalist, in the Matin. England, he declares, is the only European Power with no frontiers to guard, Nature having surrounded her with......

The Question Who Is To Succeed Mr. Bryce At The

Irish Office has been discussed at considerable length in the news- papers. The greater number of the amateur Cabinet-makers indicate Mr. Winston Churchill. No doubt his great......

It Was Formally Announced On Thursday That Mr. Bryce Had

been appointed to succeed Sir Mortimer Durand as our Ambassador at Washington. Mr. Bryce's long and honour- able record in our politics, and his deep knowledge of American......

The Prevention Of Corruption Bill, Which Comes Into...

the New Year, will, we hope, work a salutary reform in commercial life. It makes it a criminal offence for any agent corruptly to accept, or for any person corruptly to give,......