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Seldom Have The Interests Of A Defendant Been Watched With

such deep sympathy as that with which the public followed the evidence for Lord Gladstone in the libel action that ended last week. Lord Gladstone, with Idiom was associated his......

A Serious Revolution Is In Progress In Portugal, But The

information is too scanty for an intelligible or trust- worthy summary. The revolt began at Oporto, and after considerable fighting the Government forces seem to have regained......

Within The Past Couple Of Years The Labour Party Here

has been discovering the Empire, and it would be well to help the Party enthusiastically to follow up the discovery. It was a mystery that Labour was so slow in becoming aware......

Mr. Bruce, On His Return To Australia, Made The Most

interesting statement that he had persuaded the British Government to send out three or four of the best financial and business brains in Great Britain to confer with the......

Colonel Wedgwood Benn Who Has Joined The Labour Party Is

a great loss to the Liberals. No Liberal was a more resourceful or unflagging skirmisher in Opposition. Perhaps his political enemies admire him even more than his political......

Some Of The Squares Are Owned And Maintained By The

L.C.C., the City Corporation and the Borough Councils, but all the rest are owned privately. Such open spaces, where a foot of building land is precious, provide the owners with......

Rural Districts Arc Afraid That The Very Wealth Of Their

beauty will be despoiled, but the case of London is different. Here the problem is to safeguard the rare equivalents of rural delights by preventing the builder from overrunning......

The Council For The Preservation Of Rural England...

has received, a hearty welcome. It is a federation of organizations which were already in exist- ence and whose work will now be co-ordinated and focussed. The officials of the......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 4 Per Cent.,

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) as on Wednesday ton ; on Wednesday week 101 is ; a year ago 1011. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 871 ; on Wednesday......