These important questions of foreign and Colonial policy, cropping up one after another, have to some slight extent overshadowed, but they have not by any means eclipsed, the widespread interest which the Zola trial has created in this country.
Woe are in the thick of the London County Council elections, and the Conservative leaders are working almost as earnestly on behalf of the ''Moderates" as if this were a parliamentary election. There will be a contest in every one of the fifty-nine divisions, and in every case the contest is conducted, frankly on party lines. The "Progressives" have ruled the Council for the whole nine years of its existence, though latterly their majority has almost vanished; but seeing how enormously strong the Unionist Party is in the metropolis one would think that now the Moderates" have become merged in the Unionists their victory would be overwhelming. But there are still a good many people who decline to regard muni-* cipal politics from the party standpoint. The result is very difficult to forecast, but the general opinion is that the parties will be very evenly divided in the new Council.
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