11th July.
From all quarters in Europe our mail papers are full of wonder and surprise at Admiral Togo's epoch-marking victory and hope that it would be the fore-runner of a speedy pence. Since the battle more than month has passed, and, except, for the acceptance of President Roosevelt's invitation to a Peace Conference at Washington, we ure no nearer the cessation of hostilities thau_before. Indeed it is said that the Czar had made op his mind to continue fighting so long as a man and a gun were available. Fortunate'y the Czar's is not one of those inflexible wills which cannot be induced to change a course laid down. As everybody knows tenacity of purpose has not been his apparent characteristic during the past year or two, and there is still a chance that advice and circum.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.