The Royal Niger Company Bill Was Read A Second Time
in the House of Lords on Tuesday. Lord Salisbury took the occasion tb support Sir George Gol'die's contention that the main object of the Company Was philanthropic and political......
The Peace Conference At The Hague Ended Its Labours On
July 29th. Its President, M. de Steal, the Russian Minister in Holland, pronounced its requiem in a well-considered epeech, the drift of which was that the Conference has failed......
The Enormous Financial Obligations Involved In The...
Old-Age Pensions Committee have at once been seized upon by the Protectionists—as we fele-mire they would and it has been suggested by a writer in the Daily Telegraph that the......
The Operative Part Of Mr. Chamberlain'a Speech Was, How-...
his announcement that the Government had proposed to President Kruger that a joint Commission should inquire into the last franchise proposals of the Transvaal in order to......
More Letters Have Been Published This Week About The Dreyfus
case. One is a letter from the late Colonel Sand- herr advising the editor of the Echo de l'Armee not to assume his confession, for it was never made. What Dreyfus said was that......
The Text Of The Report Of The Select Committee On
Old-Age Pensions was published on Tuesday. It proposes that a pension shall be granted to any person, who (1) is a British subject; (2) is sixty-five years of age; (3) has not......
The Government, Impressed By The Arrears In The Court Of
Chancery, has agreed to strengthen the Bench by one new Judge, and on Monday the House of Commons passed the Motion by a vote of 159 to 38. Such opposition as there was, was......
In The House Of Lords On Friday, July 28th, The
South African debate was opened by Lord Camperdown. Lo'rd Selborne, as Under-Secretary for the Colonies, made a firm but temperate speech, his strongest point being that, though......
In The House Of Commons Sir Henry Campbell-bannerman...
debate by a speech which, though it occasionally showed leanings towards the Boers' view of the situation, was not, on the whole, calculated to encourage President Kruger. Mr.......
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