2 JANUARY 1909, page 10

The New York Correspondent Of The Times Has Some Interesting

comments on the progress of the Tariff Inquiry. He points out that hitherto the manufacturers have usually had it pretty much their own way at these inquiries. This, ho......

Last Saturday's Papers Contain A Report Of A Statement Made

on the previous day in the Duma by M. Isvolsky, Minister of Foreign Affairs. After laying great stress on the value of the Auglo-Russian Agreement in preventing complications in......

After A Debate In Which There Were Violent Speeches From

the extremist leaders and an onslaught on the policy of the Foreign Minister from a reactionary Member, especially as regards the policy of friendship with Great Britain (n,......

M. Fanieves, The President Of The French Republic, Was...

on the morning of Christmas Day, while walking in the Champs Elysees with his secretary and an officer of the household, by a man named Mathis. The assailant, who seized M.......

The Causes Of The Earthquake Cannot Easily Be Sot Forth

in a short space, but we may note that Professor Milne, the well- known English authority, whose observation station at Shide, in the Isle of Wight, is equipped with the latest......

After A Lapse Of Nearly Five Hundred Years Since Her

death at the stake in 1431, the decree of the beatification of Joan of Arc has been published by the Pope, and the ceremony will be solemnised in St. Peter's on April 18th. Her......

The Indian National Congress, Attended By Two Thousand...

visitors, opened at Madras on Monday. Dr. Rash Behari Ghose in his presidential address expressed he gratitude of the nation for the policy of Lord Morley, Wgile strongly .......

The General Moderation Of The President's Remarks Was...

the subsequent proceedings of the Congress. Resolutions were unanimously adopted tendering loyal homage to the King-Emperor, expressing deep satisfaction with the projected......

There Is No Special Fact To Record In Regard To

the situation in the Near East. We have dealt elsewhere with the general considerations, which are far from reassuring. Meantime the attempts in the Vienna, and also in the......