The Standard says : —England cannot consent to any modification of the contract until her partner in making it can give a vote upon the question. She owes that to i France and to herself. It s to France that she must naturally look for the main support of the opinion for which m

The apartment of the Foreign Office in which the sitting was held on Tuesday is called the Smaller Conference Room, not because it is the reverse of spacious—being far larger, indeed, than most saloons to private mansions—but ?n contradistinction to the magnificent hall which is

Paris, according to news on the 14th, has still resources for two months at least. The France and the Constit utionel agree with the Radical journals in approving of M. Jules Favre's not going to the conferenee at preeenti while the Debats and Paine urge him to take advantage of

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Printed and Published for the Proprietor John Ha l ainus, at 112, Strand, London, W.C. From Albert, January 10, the correspondent of the Daily News sends the folbwing :—General von Goeben's army is the same which hitherto has been commanded by General von Manteuffel. The latter

At twenty minutes past ten o'clock on Tuesday night, a young woman named Emma Starkie, aged about 20 years, was found dead in Caughly-street, Hull, with an axc deeply embedded in her skull. The deceased, who resided in Clarendon-street, in that town, left home about 8 o'clock on

It has been so long assumed that France must of necessity be beaten, observes the Daily New, that the rising doubt whether, after all, the German victory will over be really secure, has come upon European opinion with all the force of a discovery. It has been assumed all through

A body of Prussians, with two guns, attached the French troops in the direction of Saint Romaiu on the 17th. They threw shells into the village. After a severe engagement they were repulsed with heavy loss. The French had five men haled and ten wounded.

to 94d. A few prime North Country wethers, 94d.; ewes, 81. WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The show of beef at this market to-day was remarkably good as to quality, but only about an average in quantity, and nearly all the beasts were disposed of at per stone of 141 b. There

formed indifferently of passenger carriages, luggage vans, and trucks. An immense amount of war materiel covered the platforms, and was being piled without regard • for symmetry and order into the many trains which one by one in rapid succession steamed away. For my part, having