31 DECEMBER 1898, page 1

News Of The Week.

T HE public will be well ad eised to regard with great caution the sensational and inflammatory telegrams that are pour- lag, in from Johannesburg. All that seems certain is......

There Was A Remarkable Debate In The French Chamber On

Priday week. The motley crowd of Frenchmen, Spaniards, %a Italians who make up the Christian population of Algeria bare been imitating towards the Jews the conduct of Irish......

We Question If The Accounts From The Philippines...

the governing facts. Those accounts must come originally from leading natives, and the leading natives want to persuade the Americans that "the people" insist upon independence.......

The Rome Correspondent Of The Times Sends On Thursday A

very curious telegram, which hereafter may prove of importance. The most orthodox party in the Vatican has watched for some years with growing dismay the increasing liberalism......

The Tension In The Hungarian Chamber Has Produced A...

crop of duels. M. Horansky, leader of the Nationalists, began it by accusing Baron BaniTy, the Premier of bad faith. Baron Banffy. in a severe letter, gave him the lie, and M.......

Ale The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript, On...

ease.......

Notice.

Owing to the weekly increasing difficulty of folding the " SPECTATOR" by hand, the paper will in future be printed by a rotary machine. Advantage has been taken of this change......