night of Thursday,- December 3rd. The..poWerS of the Boundary Commission were revoked. The Report will be held up indefinitely but may become material for historians in the...

The Free State pays to Great Britain £150,000 down, and £250,000 a year for 60 years, less a sum of £900,000 due from Great Britain. The Free State pays a sum estimated at...

embodying this Agreement passed through all its Stages,. the Prime Minister was able to pay a handsome tribute to everybody concerned ---to Mr. Cosgrave and his colleagues who...

at Geneva for critically important business. The Mosul controversy has to be settled and there is also the vital problem of disarmament. But before we come to these matters let...

PVE RgITY is -being turned to what -we trust will be glorious gain in Ireland. The boundary settlement is by far the greatest event of the .week. The circum- stances gave the...

an order 'for the SPECTATOR: The journal will be forwarded to any address at the following rates : One Month, 2s. Od. ;- Two Month*, Ss. Three Mont/u , 78. 6d.—The Publisher,...

for further taxation and fiscal economies. The new direct taxation will be framed to raise 144,000,000. The field of the Income Tax is to he extended ; railway rates are to be...

work, but _it is_ as_ yet hardly past the beginning, It is proposed to set up a preparatory Conunission that will consist of ten members, one from each State refire- sented on...

the debates in the house of Corainons - oxi the Safeguarding of Industries: - The - debates - have -revealed-the usual- hard and fast dividing line between those who believe in...

Munir Bey said that it had no right to take upon itself the duty of arbitration. Who were the members of the Council ? Only diplomats or politicians who ought to stand for the...

the past fortnight. His physical endurance has survived the terrific calls made. upon it in London and Paris. We trust that Sir Austen Chamberlain, a much lesS " tough" man, may...

who has been investigating the Turkish depor- tations in Mosul, and adopted the advisory opinion of The Hague Court that the League has full powers to deter- mine the frontier...

refugees in the Vilayet of Mosul we trust that a solution will be found quickly. Let us repeat that we were never in favour of committing ourselves in Iraq, but now that our...

of the Marquis de Estella, haS outwardly come to an end. He becomes the .civilian head of a nominally civilian Cabinet, thOugh actual government and administration will be to a...

the Russian trade unionists is a snub for the - General Council of the- British Trade Union Congress. It will he interesting to- see what the British leaders will do next, for...

to be over a million and a half pounds, or rather less than the loss made on the first year. This estimate is for a minimum loss which may be greater if the sales of the assets...

Company rests has another year to run, and the Committee appointed for the purpose is considering the future policy. Everyone seems to agree that by its nature broadcasting must...

Lodge, the home of the Maynard family in Essex, to house an International Labour University. We cannot say exactly what this may mean. Possibly it is no more than an answer to...

to understand how Opposition newspapers, even some reputable ones, can allow themselves to fling out charges of broken faith. Our own conviction is that protective duties never...

should pass out of the hands of private owners on a certain day.. According to the modified plan the transition is to be gradual. The County authorities are not to take over the...

the Poor Law Reform . Bill will be postponed. We cannot regret this, though we admit the urgent need of reform. It is essential that these delicate changes should be most...

threatened to be divided into two irrecon- cilable groups. Those who disapprove of Mr. Lloyd George's land policy have naturally been resentful at the hint that his special...

on December 8rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100i : on Thursday week 1001; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 881 ; on Thursday week...

T ORD NEWTON'S speech in the House of Lords last week gave an admirable send-off to what we hope will be a really serious reconsideration of the proposal to tax betting. We have...

THE IRISH SETTLEMENT is impossible to sympathize with those—fortunately -I- they are few—who object to the Boundary settle- ment on the ground that it is another British...

BY NEW MEMBER. C APTAIN WEDGWOOD BENN has been the parlia. mentary hero of the week. His opposition to the Safeguarding Resolutions was conducted with a sustainee vigour and...

BY CHRISTOPHER TURNOR " A GRICULTURE will be recognized as a national service and the farm worker, instead of being a wage slave, will be the servant of the State. In the...

"rillIERE is no wealth but life," wrote Ruskin half -I- a century ago, and the " economists " of the day laughed him to scorn. That economics is the " law of the dwelling," for...

S IX thousand people a day are arriving in Miami, " the magic city . " of Florida ; they represent the biggest migration of fortune-sulkers and the greatest influx of...

BY HAROLD COX AMONG the . many problems of modern life that give - cause for anxiety, the steady growth of mental disease is one of the most serious. Striking figures are, to...

T HE inspired philosopher who described for all time the dawn of that moral consciousness which differen- tiates man from the animals did not touch upon the question of giving....

find their optimum. the sum of conditions which favour their breeding and survival. This year has provided the pheasant with its optimum ; and, as it happens, the species has...

CONVERSATIONAL DRAMA Was Mr. Barker wise in attemptin g to brin g :The Madras 'House up to date ? Had it been frankly -placed in its remote period—all periods before the War a...

of December 3rd := WE are informed that a change in the proprietorship of the Spectator took place in - the summer, when Mr. St..Loe Straehey disposed - of the control to_Mr....

THE MODERNIZATION OF OLD HOUSES EVERYONE must have been interested who read the article by " Crusader " in the Spectator of November 14th on the subject of the modernization...

THE ENGLISH WOOD ENGRAVING SOCIETY 'i'UE art of wood-engraving is one which is admirably fitted for the development of the English artist, because it forces 'him, through its...

THE OSTEOPATHS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] StR,—Will you kindly afford me space to make a few observations in reply to Dr. E. Graham Little, whose courteous reference to...

A LETTER FROM SWITZERLAND [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Of course, the great events of the past few months in Switzerland have been those at Geneva and Locarno, but...

do not stand alone in thinking that the General Medical Council has exercised the statutory powers to the disadvantage of the public, and has inflicted injury even upon the...

Dr. Graham Little makes use of such expressions as " fatuous dogma," " making hay of their pretensions," " demonstrably absurd," and so on. Let us all avoid the appearance of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The conclusions adverse to the decision of the General Medical Council in the case of Dr. W. Lloyd would appear, having regard to the...

[To the Editor of the Sexereroa.] San,—Will you permit me to say how profoundly I approve of the weighty and righteous support which is being given to the movement to reinstate...

Barker writes to me from Italy : " Dear Marston, I wrote to you, but I expect my letter has gone astray—to say that I hoped you would write to the Spectator supporting the case...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —All holders of railway stock must have a keen personal interest in any proposals the Chancellor of the Exchequer may bring forward for...

Sea,--In reply to the letter in your issue of November 28th, by your correspondent, Mr. Myles A. Abram, the problem of tidal power has been a favourite one to happy-thought per-...

Sur,—You have thought fit to criticize the action of the General Medical Council ig clifett - Thg Dr. Lloyd's name to be erased tram lite "Medical Register. It is quite obvious...

Secc-r.vron] Sin,--I have lived for thirty-two years in Latin countries of the Old and- New Worlds, and during that time have conversed with many hundreds of merchants,...

correspondent, Mr. A. E. I. Cosson, in his letter about " Walking in Circles," states that we are left legged because, amongst other reasons, the left foot is placed in the...

SPECTATOR.] Sur,—May I make a slight correction in the particulars you give in the article on the Vienna Land Settlements, in last week's issue of the Spectator ? The houses in...

answered Mr. Churchill's proposed attack upon the Road Fund by pointing out that, far from having a surplus, it is quite clear that the Road Fund would have a deficit if the...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I from some first-hand evidence, collected this autumn in the Rhineland, supplement Mr. du Mont's article in your issue of November 28 ? Here is one of the...

I r • • [To the Editor of the Sescrxroa.] pa,—The British Broadcasting Company have very kindly allowed us to arrange a special competition in connexion with the- -broadcasting...

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THE NEW BANK RATE BY ARTHUR W. KIDDY. LAST week's rise in the Bank Rate from 4 to 5 per cent. has met with more approval than usually follows upon an advance in the Official...

The huge success which attended the flotation on Tuesday of the Potash Syndicate of Germany Bonds for £5,000,000 suggests one or two very interesting considerations. Does the...

IN view of the cheerfulness which has characterized most markets during the past few months, and especially bearing in mind the rampancy of the rubber market, it remains to be...

Fortunately the company is well supplied with liquid funds. The cash position, therefore, occasions no anxiety, and the shareholders are not called upon t o provide any more...

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF VICKERS. THE proposal of the directors of Vickers to write down the ordinary shares of the company from £1 to 6s. 8d., thereby cancelling over £8,000,000...

The annual Report of the Commercial Bank of Scotland is a good one, for while in common with many of the banks south of the Tweed there is a slight - decrease in deposits, the...

" The worst year which shipping has ever experienced." In these words Lord Inchcape, at the meeting of the P. & 0. Company on Wednesday, summed up the conditions of the past...

The success of the Potash Syndicate Bonds is the more noteworthy because until a week or two before the issue it had been thought that London would only be called upon to take...