29 JUNE 1901, page 2

The Doings In The House Of Commons This Week Have

been of very little interest, but Thursday's debate as to the alleged scandals in the buying of horses caused some heat. The Govern. ment promised strict investigation, and it......

In The House Of Lords This Week There Have Been

two interesting debates, one dealing with military and the other with naval affairs. On Monday the Duke of Bedford raised some very important questions in a singularly able and......

The Navy League Have Issued A Circular Calling Attention To

their previous declaration, made on October 20th, 1900, that Britain had lost the command of the sea. When, however, Lord Selborne and the new Board of Admiralty came into......

Mr. Yerburgh, M.p., And Mr. Arnold White During The Course

of a cruise with the Mediterranean Fleet carried out an interesting experiment. In order to realise in their own persons the inadequacy of sailors' diet, they arranged for one......

The Times Cannot Divest Itself Of The Wish That We

should fight Russia for Manchuria. It is reported that the Govern- ment of St. Petersburg intends to recommence the negotiations with China about that province, and the Times......

The Polling In The Stratford-on-avon Division, Which Took...

Tuesday, resulted as follows :—P. S. Foster (C.), 4,755; Bolton King (H.R.), 2,977; Unionist majority, 1,778. In the election of 1900 there was no contest, but in 1895 the......

It Is With Deep Regret That We Record The Death

by an acci- dental fall from a window in Newhaven, Connecticut, of Mr. Adalbert Hay, the son of the American Secretary of State. Mr. Adalbert Hay was a young man of high......

A Very Little But Rather Important British War Has Ter-

minated successfully. A Dervish, called locally the "Mad Mullah," thought he could seize the Somali country, and invaded the northern part of it, thereby affronting Menelik of......