9 JANUARY 1897, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

M. DE NELIDOFF'S NOTE. T HE Note banded in to the Porte by the Russian Ambassador on December 23rd, 1896, is a striking symptom of one of the diseases which now cripple the......

Sir Edward Clarke On Irish Taxation.

S IR EDWARD CLARKE certainly shows no indis- position to force upon the Unionist Government the duty of accepting a defeat from its antagonists. A few weeks ago he was just too......