12 JANUARY 1934, page 6

The Bishop Of Ely Being Virtually Bishop Of Cambridge, The

vacant see will inevitably be filled by a Cambridge man, though not necessarily, and in this case not probably, by a Cambridge resident. Dr. Chase went to Ely from the......

Straw Votes Have Always To Be Handled With Caution, But

they are often more reliable all the same than the assumptions of politicians as to what ordinary men and women in the country are thinking. On Thursday of last week Mr. Vernon......

A Spectator S Notebook

T HE Cabinet Committee on Disarmament on Wed- nesday got nearer to definite conclusions, accord- ing to information which I believe to be accurate, than at most previous......

I Am Surprised That So Little Attention Has Been Paid

in this country to a rather striking disclosure made in last month's Harper's Magazine in America. According to Mr. Drew Pearson, the author of an article on the conversations......

The Bishop Of The Arctic, I Am Impressed To Learn,

is to be constituted a corporation sole, which might suggest vaguely a kind of piscatorial relationship to the Great Seal. Actually, of course, the condition is legal. A......

Having Just Had Occasion To Consult That Valuable...

Was Who, a summary of the Who's Who biographies of persons who have died in recent years, I observe with interest that the telephone numbers of the deceased are still......

National Government

T HAT the National Government has no present intention of splitting into its component parts at the next General Election has been made perfectly clear by the programme of the......