24 SEPTEMBER 1898, page 5

The Picquart Affair.

W E regard the latest news from France as positively terrible. France, and Paris more especially, is falling into one of those moods of angry distrust of all men, of disposition......

America And Her Army. —to Cuba, 12,000; To The Philippines,

3,000; to Porto Rico, 4,000; and to Honolulu, 1,000." The rest will be volunteer regiments, but these will, of course, be none the less under the command and absolute con- trol......