On Tuesday morning M. Fallieres arrived at Bizerta and reviewed
the French, British, Italian and Spanish squadrons that were assembled there. In a speech at the banquet that was held subsequently, M. Fallieres welcomed " the vessels of the fleets of the three great friendly nations." He drank to the sovereigns who, in honouring him at Bizerta, had given France a mark of sympathy, which she appreciated all the more as they worked, like France herself, for the maintenance of general peace and the good of humanity. It is impossible not to be struck by this proof of the strange cross-currents in the stream of European politics. On the one hand the German Emperor was, only a fortnight ago, being received in the Adriatic with the greatest enthusiasm by the Austrian fleet, while this week the sailors of the third member of the Triple Alliance were fraternising with the sailors of Great Britain, France, and Spain on the other side of the Mediterranean. Is the Triple Alliance only a Land League
