24 OCTOBER 1896, page 1

That Reference To Morocco In The Daily Chronicle's Sketch Of

the secret treaty is exceedingly significant. We have for some time seen reason to believe that of all the many ques- tions before Europe none is more delicate than that of......

The New York Correspondent Of The Times, Writing In...

on October 21st, telegraphs that the Govern- ment contemplates "energetic action" to bring the never- ending conflict in Cuba to a close. Apparently it proposes to buy the......

The Sultan Has Issued A Decree Ordering A Poll-tax Of

five piastres—a shilling—a head to be levied on the Mussulman population, and increasing the tax on sheep. Both imposts will be excessively unpopular, and are therefore......

News Of The Week.

T HE Daily Chronicle publishes what its conductors believe to be an " unquestionably " accurate account of the Treaty of Alliance between France and Russia. The document was......

The British Government Has Received A Very Unusual...

that of China. A Chinese doctor of Hong- kong, named Sun Yat Sen, was suspected of a conspiracy to dethrone the Mings, and fled first to America and then to England. On Saturday......

4 T,,* The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript,...

case.......

Notice To Advertisers.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, November 7th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure......