14 MARCH 1896, page 2

In The Adjourned Discussion Of Last Monday On The Naval

Estimates, Mr. Dillon demanded an explanation as to the Power against which this greatly increased expenditure is directed, and declared that the United States would consider it......

On Saturday Last The Long-expected Blue-book On The Vene-...

boundary dispute was presented to Parliament. The preliminary statement, drawn up by Sir Frederick Pollock, is an able piece of work, and puts the British case with great skill.......

A Smaller Blue-book Accompanies The Main Volume, And...

maps. The first three maps are Dutch maps— the earliest is dated 1640—and show the Dutch boundary ex- tending up to the Orinoco. The fourth is a French map compiled largely from......

The Irish Home-rulers Raised A Debate On Tuesday On The

question whether the principle of cumulative voting should not be applied to Irish municipal elections. They raised it as an instruction to the Committee on the private Bill for......

The Irish Members On Thursday, In Pursuance Of Their Policy

of veiled obstruction, in a debate on Supply, raised the question of Ashantee, and drew from Mr. Chamberlain a full reply. The Government of Ashantee, he declared, had become an......

The Wire-pullers Of The Two Sections Of The Opposition Have

bad a struggle this week which has ended for the present in a drawn battle. For ten years past the Liberal Central Office," that is, the Whips' Office, and the National Liberal......

The Jameson Trial, Which Will, It Is Clear, Be A

terribly long and dreary one, may be said to have begun on Tuesday, when Dr Leander Jameson and fourteen companions were brought up at Bow Street charged with having prepared a......