NEWS OF THE WEEK
ON Tuesday evening Mr. Chamberlain made his long- expected speech at Glasgow to an audience of some five thousand persons. The speech was oratorically a very fine effort, and showed all Mr. Chamberlain's wonted lucidity, but in substance it was little more than a condensation of Mr. Vine's leaflets. The definite proposals were as follows. To place a 2s. duty per quarter on foreign corn, but to let Colonial corn in free. To place a 5 per cent. duty on foreign meat and foreign dairy produce, but to let Colonial meat and dairy produce in free. At the same time, the British miller is to be given a preference on flour, and the duties on Colonial fruits and wines are to be reduced so as to give them a preference.. On the other hand, the tax on tea is to be reduced by three-fourths, and on sugar, coffee, and cocoa by a half.
