RESERVATION, London, 28th February.
Speaking in the Reichstag, Count Caprivi said that Germany was willing to submit special disputes to iuternational arbitration, but never the cession of Alsace and Lorraine, which Germany would rather shed the last. drop of her blood than restore.
BIMETALLISM 1N PARLIAMENT, London, 1st March, A motion by Sir H. Meysey-'Thompson, Liberal-Unionist member for Handsworth, urging the Government to nse its influence to procure the reassembly of the Brussels Conference and to impress on the British delegates the necessity for some effective remedy for the evils caused by the divergence of the values of gold and silver, was rejecter by 229 against 148 votes on a The House agreed without division to an amendment by Mr. W. Beckett, Conservative member for Whitby, that any meddling with tie Single Standard was open to the gravest objections, and that it was not expedient for the Government to procure the reassembly of the Conference.
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