Excerpt from The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad; For the Year 1899 The Editor of the annual register thinks it neces sary to state that in no case does he claim to offer original reports of speeches in Parliament or else where. F or the former he is greatly indebted to the Editor of the able and impartial summaries of ross's Parliamentary Record, which When necessary have been supplemented by the more extended reports of Han sard's Debates, and in rarer instances of the Times, Standard, etc. He has also to express his appreciation of the obliging courtesy of the Editors of the Spectator and the Guardian for their permission to make use of the summaries of speeches delivered outside Parlia ment appearing in their columns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.