its series—issued as a White Paper on Wednesday by the Committeo of Public Accounts. The Committee do not hesitate to speak of the possibility of national bankruptcy. They...

set debate on economy. Mr. Lambert in an able speech moved that the House should decline to sanction expenditure for 1921-22 in excess of £808,000,000—the total estimated for a...

immense progress in reducing expenditure. Last year we spent £2,160,000,000, and had to borrow part of it. This year the Estimate of £1,282,000,000 would suffice—since the...

ment should reduce expenditure " to the utmost extent possible," and suggested that the total should not exceed £1,060,000,000, including £110,000,000 for the redemption of...

T HE heavy decline in trade and values is fill ing everybody with alarm. The only consoling reflection in a very depressing situation is that alarm always proves to be one of...

finance. New schemes which would cost money were to remain in abeyance. The Ministries of Munitions, Shipping, and Food were to be wound up by March next. Our forces in Persia...

Owing to the Government having taken over our old oremises, we have removed to new offices, 13 York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 2, where all communications should be addressed.

of the Government. It would be dangerous, he said, to cut down expenditure on education—which cost more because the teachers were better paid—or on housing, because half-...

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police on Sunday. A police barracks at Camlough, County Armagh; was besieged, but the occupants sent up rockets and were relieved by troops,. who captured seven rebels. At...

Minister to Father O'Flanagan in answer to Father O'Flanagan's appeal for a truce in Ireland. The Prime Minister said that Father O'Flanagan would be enabled to visit Mr. Arthur...

Fein bomb factory in Parnell Street, in the centre of Dublin, under a shop tenanted by Heron, an official of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, and Lawless, a councillor and a...

notice time after time how English people fall into the way of arguing on the assumption that Irish patriats behave in a perfectly rational manner. " Why," they say, " should...

Nations at Geneva on Monday, when it was decided to set up a Court of International Justice. The Assembly approved the draft statute of the Court with amendments which was...

for the position was strongly urged by the Germans during the war, has threatened to excommunciate those-Roman Catholics who are guilty of murder, even though they be Irish...

to call attention to the Cork fires, and actually quoted a letter from an unnamed priest as incontrovertible evidence against the forces of the Crown. The Chief Secretary said...

made a statement on Irish policy. The Government believed that most Irish people wanted peace and a fair settlement. They welcomed the resolution of the Galway County Council...

a proclamation declaring martial law in Cork, Tipperary, Kerry, and Limerick, and appointing , military gover- nors to administer it. He fixed December 27th as the date by which...

has received the contemptuous destruction of Dr. Addison's handiwork with delight. This is a good sign in itself, not because we think for a moment that people are indifferent...

was debated, and the Lords rejected the clause which gives Ministers power to enforce certain methods of cultivation. In vain Lord Lee argued that there was too much bad farming...

con- ciliatory spirit towards her. By the Peace Treaty she agreed to reduce her army to 100,000 men and to deliver up all surplus arms. But, while reducing the regular army, she...

suppressed, was described and summarized in a Berlin paper last Sunday. It seems that the ex-Kaiser, though an exile, is still influential enough at Berlin to prevent the book...

of the Government of Ireland Bill. The two Courts of Appeal for the North and the South were retained on a division by 88 votes to 53. The House accepted a new clause, moved by...

on board the Greek cruiser Averoff,' in which he is returning to Athens. The Italian Government gave him a royal reception, as if to show that they did not agree with their...

question of reducing armaments. In view of Germany's suspicious behaviour in enrolling " volunteers" and of Bolshevik military activity, it is not surprising that the Allies and...

much curtailed in the House of Commons, was rejected on Tuesday by the House of Lords, on the motion of Lord Strachie. The Bill, like all Dr. Addison's measures, was badly...

December 9th, by the Foreign Press Association, Mr. Boner Law expressed very happily the respectful admiration with which we all regard the veteran French Ambassador, who is now...

Apr. 15, 1920 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 821 ; Thursday week, 83 ; a year ago, 91i.

THE NEMESIS OF PRETENCE. T HE condition of murderous anarchy into which the South and West of Ireland have fallen is a disgrace to the British nation. No milder words can be...

T H E most signal act of pretence—the point where pretence seems to have reached its apogee— concerns the Liberal leaders more than the present Govern- ment. Within the past...

I T is a hopeless mistake for a Government to believe that they can start upon a policy of economy by going through a list of their expenditure and telling themselves that they...

OF EMPIRE. A GREAT deal of discussion has been going on in Canada about the reference of Canadian disputes to the Privy Council. When Lord Cave returned from a recent visit to...

A FEW days ago the public read in a newspaper of a legacy left by a scientific man to found " a chair of rational logic " upon somewhat new lines. The testator desired that not...

T S the Press unfair to Labour ? It is constantly and emphatic- ally asserted by Labour leaders that the Press—the " capitalist " Press as they call it — is grossly unfair to...

BUSINESS DEPRESSION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " serciarea."1 Sin,—It is some time since the City has experienced so depressing a week as the one which is now closing. Nor is there...

(To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPEOUTOR21 Sia,—The following facts are not without interest as bearing on the above. At the Burton Court branch of the Ministry of Pensions, and...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more eliective, than those which fill treble the space.] WOMEN AT CAMBRIDGE. (To THE...

Its THE EDITOR OF TI1E SPECTATOR."] Sie,—The disastrous shortage of houses, together with the difficulty of finding employment for discharged soldiers and others, is such a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm,—I have never believed that farmers generally who under- stood this Bill or its effects were in favour of it, and the results of recent...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR "1 Sia,—Whatever one may think of its general political morality, the Spectator has admittedly one high virtue—that it is all afraid to let its...

many years' standing, I wish to thank you sincerely for your article in the Spectator of December 11th on the "'Index Figure." It puts clearly and forcibly what I am sure most...

reason to be specially interested in the accuracy of the Index Figure of the cost of living, and therefore hare read your articles on the subject with close attention. Surely...

ITO THE Emma OF THE " SPECTATOR."7 Snt,—It has long been realized that various events that hap- pened in the Bronze Age, such as movements of peoples and of trade, have had a...

MO THE EDITon OP THE " SPECTATOIL'I SiR,—I shall be grateful if you will allow me to refer to Mr. William Burton's letter in your issue of the 11th inst., in which he informs me...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SEEM/10E2] Sni„—There will be few of your readers who have not fresh in their memories Lucy Whitmell'e lines. "Christ in Flanders," which appeared in...

LTo THE EDITOR or THE " EFEHIATOH .. ] Sts,—In the halcyon days before August, 1914, you occasionally printed letters from your readers giving their domestic budgets, and I...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " EPECTATOR29 have read your article on the so-called dullness of Eng- lish village life with much interest, and as it is a subject which must be...

THE FAIRY SHOEMAKER. Tiros a mossy root he sat, Beneath an aged fairy tree, In buckled shoes and three-cocked hat, And breeches gartered at the knee, As ugly as a chimpanzee....

" A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM " AT THE COURT THEATRE. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play in which a very careful balance has been made between humour, sentiment, and senti-...

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THE VIOTORY OVER THE SUBMARINE.* ADMIRAL Sues, a very old and good friend of the British people and of British seamen, has written the most illu- minating account of the war...

AYOLL0.—French Leave .. 8.30-2.30 [Amusing comedy. Brigade H.Q. to the life.] WYNDHAM'S.—The Prude's Fall .. 8.16-2.90 [An admirable love-story.] THE PALACE.—The Swedish...

years the Official Conciliator, has written a most interesting book on his experiences of industrial disputes. We hear more than enough of theoretical methods of establishing...

WIEETHER it be the author's intention or not, this book will probably be widely read by the public, and it is necessary that the reviewer should keep this fact constantly in...

Is his interesting book The Ways of Life (Oxford University Press, 6s. 6d. net), which wo reviewed recently, Mr. Stephen Ward says that since in this life we are all companions...

WE need not be ashamed if we have not before heard tell of "Granny Lal," as she is called in modern Kashmir. It is probable that not many of the numerous Europeans who make...

MB. GEORGE Lowx's study of Josef Holbrooke and his Workl is the latest addition to the " Library of Music and Musicians " edited by Dr. Eaglefield Hull. Of the three hundred and...

as " every regulated operation or dexterity by which organized beings pursue ends which they know beforehand." Tested by this definition modem mountaineering is most justly...

IN CHANCERY.• Ma. GALSWORTEY'S novel is a third instalment of what he calls " The Forsyte Saga" which began in The Man of Property and was continued in the " Indian Summer of a...

story deals with the contrast between the Western and Eastern ideals as to what is the best purpose to which life can be devoted. The Eastern stand- point is taken by an...

will be some time before the reader will realize that the country house in which the opening scene of this book is set is not, as is usual with Mrs. Tynan's novels, in Ireland....

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[Notice in this column dose not necessarily preclude subsequent review] Tercentenary Ilandlist of English and Welsh Newspapers. (The Times : Hodder and Stoughton. 21s. net.)—We...

MISS ELELHOR Biases in As the Water Flows (Grant Richards, 26s. net) describes whimsically and somewhat rhetorically her adventurous journeys in a Canadian canoe on little...

Mother and Dad and the Rest of Us, being the first book of Archie Fairfax (Blackie, 6s. net), is a pleasant domestic fairy- tale, purporting to be told by a boy of twelve. The...

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A. Winton Thorpe (Burke Publishing Co., f6 6s. net), is the eightieth edition of this familiar and venerable work, which is the most complete of its kind. It has been revised...

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