3 JUNE 1899, page 3

The By-election At Southport Has Resulted In The Return Of

the Liberal candidate, Sir George Pilkington, by a majority of 583 votes over Mr. C. B. Balfour. The votes polled, 5,635 and 5,052, show an increase of 535 and 224 on the......

An Amazing Story, Illustrative Of The Fatuous Methods Of The

French General Staff, is narrated with the utmost circum- stantiality of detail by a correspondent of the Daily Chronicle in Wednesday's issue. Of late years the notorious......

During The Past Week The Breakdown In The Negotiations...

this country and Canada and the United States in regard to the Alaskan boundary and other outstanding ques- tions has been causing a great deal of public comment. It is very......

We Noticed Last Week The Speech In Which Mr. Chamberlain

declared that personally he would vote for no scheme of old- age pensions which did not separate the deserving from the undeserving poor, and insisted that the best test for......

On Tuesday Sir William Harcourt Addressed A Meeting Of His

constituents in the Hermon Baptist Chapel, Nantyglo, and spent a great part of his time in doing what Mr. Morley only last week declared to be "contending for the shadow of the......

That Is A.great Political Truth Exceedingly Well Put, And We

congratulate Sir William Harcourt on its enunciation. It must be remembered, however, that it is exactly the policy which Lord Salisbury has most consistently and most success-......

The Times Of Tuesday Quotes From The Johannesburg Star The

text of a despatch by Mr. Chamberlain, and the answer by Mr. Reitz, the Transvaal State Secretary,—the subject in dis- pute being the dynamite monopoly. Mr. Chamberlain asserts......

Bank Rate, 8 Per Cent.

New Consols (20 were on Friday 109*.......