Saxony Has Been Greatly Excited This Week By A Festival
intended to celebrate the eight-hundredth anniversary of the dynasty. The House of Wettin, which now reigns there, is supposed to have become sovereign in 1089, when its......
The Dispute Between Germany And Switzerland As To The Right
of asylum has suddenly grown warm. The Government of Berne, it will be remembered, expelled the German police agent, Wohlgemuth, for overstepping his duty, and a warm......
The Kreuz Zeitung Publishes A Wild-looking Story About...
of England, Germany, and Turkey. Lord Salisbury, it is stated, proposed that Turkey should cede Crete to Eng- land, and the Sultan was willing to consent ; but the Emperor of......
Mr. W. H. Smith On Monday Announced That, As The
House wished for an early prorogation, the Government would abandon the Sugar Convention Bill for the Session, and confine themselves practically to the Irish Drainage Bills and......
News Of The Week.
T HE war-scare of last week has been followed by a torrent of denials. It is denied that the Servian Regents have signed any military convention with Russia; that there is any......
