12 DECEMBER 1908, page 2

If We Were To Judge By Some Of The Liberal

papers, we might imagine that the country was in a state of ferment against the House of Lords. Truth, however, compels us to say that we see no signs whatever of that......

On Wednesday, At A General Meeting Of The Education ....

Committee, Lord Cromer, who presided, won very hearty approval from his very distinguished audience by declaring that a noble attempt had recently been made to settle the......

The House Of Commons During The Week Has Been Chiefly

occupied with the Miners' Eight Hours Bill. We have expressed elsewhere the very grave objections which we have to this Protectionist measure, a measure which, in truth, is......

Mr. Roosevelt's Seventh And Last Message To Congress Was...

to both Houses on Tuesday. Dealing with Labour questions, he advocates the prohibition of child labour, the diminution of woman labour, and the shortening of hours of all......

In The House Of Commons On Wednesday Mr. Asquith. Made

a statement as to the remaining business of the Session. The Children Bill, the Scottish Education Bill, the Preven- tion of Crime Bill, the Housing of the Working Classes......

The New York Correspondent Of The Times Describes In...

paper some revelations made before the Tariff Committee at Washington, showing that the schedules of the Dingley Tariff Act and of the Tariff Law of 1883 were largely framed by......

Discussing The Position Of The Judges, The President...

the doubling of their existing and wholly inadequate salaries. After condemning the greed and recklessness shown in the exhaustion of the natural resources of the country, and......