... THE HENR Y GEORGE OF GERMANY. AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. MICHAEL FLtRSCHEIM. THE international congress on the land question recently held in Paris was organized by Mr. Michael Fliirscheim-the Henry George of Germany. Mr. Fliirscheim was a manufacturer, but recently turned his business into a company, and now devotes his life entirely to the advocacy of land nationalization. He edits the organ of ...

... BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. THURSDAY EVENING'S SPITING. The hall seemed to be more crowded than ever at the opening of proceedin!s on Thursday evening, and so great was the interest displayed that few left it before eleven o'clock, the sitting being prolonged till a quarterof an hour before midnight, Citizen Brrtaud was elected as French President, one of the Portu- guese delegates being ...

... PI0 UR ITN IE'DTI0A PERSI CO AND T I- E P O P E. A STARTLING DISCLOSURE. THE INTRIGUES OF THE VATICAN. CAN THESE THINGS BE TRUE? The Papacy: a Revelation and a Prophecy, is the title of the first article in the Lz;rm;5evzY)u),y IR'.7a'ec', the contents of which are likely to make not small sensation throughout the: Catholic world, The article, which is unsigned, betrays throughout an> ...

... FOURTH qNDITION. THE POSITFON OF AFFAIRS IN TIM SOUDAN. WHY REINFORCEMENTS ARE BEING SENT. From Cairo to-day comes the following Reuter's ?? Sirdar General Sir F. W. Grenfell, has arrived at AssDuan, where he was greeted by the Ababdeh and other sheikhs, who expressed loyalty and devotion to the Government. The Egyptian troops have occupied Bimban. Colonel Wode- house continues to harass Wad ...

... (COMMUNICATED. BY AN INCORPORATED AUTHOR.) Mr. Walter Besant and Mr. Sprigge may justly feel proud at the success of the function which they arranged for last night. Most people know that Mr. Besant is practically the moving spirit of the Incorporated Society of Authors. There is, of course, a representative and powerful council, but Mr. Besant takes more than than an ordinary author's ...

... OCCASIONAL NOTES, Ministers have made a mistake in shrinking from any attempt to settle the question of Royal Allowances on a solid and permanent foundation. Like most cowardly'people, they have exposed themselves to far greater perils by their timidity than any that they would have had to meet if they had boldly faced the difficulty. From the loyal point of view there are not two more ...

... THE WHOLE-HEARTED HOMAGE OF A HERO-WORSHIPPER. MR. J. P. MAYALL, one of the well-known photographers of that name, paid two visits to Hawarden for the purpose of photographing Mr. Glad- stone. Of them he has been good enough to send us the following interesting account, which will be read just now with great interest. Last night crowds of enthusiastic Liberals flocked to the National Liberal ...

... YESTERDAY we published an interesting account of Cardinal Newman'1 school at Edgbaston, in which the writer mentioned that to the Cardinal the production of the Latin Play was the chief feature of the year. As this took place last night our readers will be glad to have the following report of the proceedings from one who was present:- Cardinal Newman was unfortunately not well enough to be ...

... AN UNFOR TUNA TE INFL UENCE INDEED. THE PARNELL Commission is not closed yet, and yesterday the July sun was not hotter than the temperature inside the Court, when Sir JAMES HANNEN and Mr. Justice SMITH gave the man JOHN O'CONNOR a foretaste of the mood in which they will address themselves to the consideration of their Report. The President made one significant remark, which the public ...

... A CO-OPERATIVE FAILURE. A fact noted in the drift of the salmon packing business from Oregon in the Consular district of San Francisco is that out of 12 co-operative canneries, worked on the plan of having only fishermea and workmen connected with the cannery as stock owners, only two are now being worked on that plan, all the others having had to close out of business. THE FOREIGN TRADE OF ...

... FOURTH EDITIOZ. THE PARNELL *COMMISSION. DRAMATIC SCENE THIS MORNING. SIR CHARLES RUSSELL WITHDRAWS. AND ALL THE IRISH COUNSEL FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE. At the opening of the Parnell Commission this morning it was evident that something very unusual was afloat. There was thunder in the air. Early as the hour was, there cannot certainly have been such a crowd at the doors as was to be witnessed to ...

... Sir William McGregor ought to stand a good chance for the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his plucky ascent of Mount Owen Stanley in New Guinea. The natives, he reports, were friendly. He has reason to thank his stars that he did not fall in with a tribe of head-hunters. Quite recently one of a party of British sailors who went ashore in New Guinea strolled a hundred yards ...