5 MARCH 1898, page 6

The French And West Africa. T Here Is Less Heated Talk

about West Africa than there was last week. Otherwise we cannot see that the situation is improved. What is most ominous is the -dogged refusal of the French to meet us half-way......

Lord Salisbury.

W E do not know that Unionists need distress them- selves about Lord Salisbury's illness, though it is the irritating specialty of the present visitation of in- fluenza that an......