12 JULY 1913, page 3

We Have Dealt At Length Elsewhere With The Passage Of

the Home Rule Bill through the House of Commons for the second time. We will only say here that the third reading was passed by a majority of 109 (352-243). On Tuesday, after......

In The Coarse Of His Expressions Of Horror At The

folly of borrowing bit by bib—" there is nothing that puts up the price of money so much and depresses seaarity so ninth as a constant going to the market for your five and ten......

On Saturday Last At Norwich A Number Of Distinguished...

took part in the George Borrow celebrat ions, th e occasion being the handing over to the Corporation, by the Lord Mayor, of the title deeds of Borrow's house, which is to be......

On Friday Week A Blue Book Of 660 Pages Was

issued, giving an account of the working of the Insurance Act during the past year. It describes the formation of the insurance fund of nearly £20,000,000, the machinery of......

These Considerations Will, Of Course, Though They Dare...

so at the moment, weigh equally strongly with the Liberal Government after Home Rule is passed. Unless the Irish insist on Land Purchase passing before the third time of asking......

Nemesis Was Not Long In Overtaking Mr. Lloyd George For

his temerity in attacking the Irish land purchase system. Tuesday's Times contained a long letter from Mr. William O'Brien denouncing Mr. Lloyd George in round terms for his......

That Is On The Whole A Fair Verdict. To Appropriate

a phrase from the inexhaustible magazine of Stevenson, there is something in Borrow after all; not so much as most people suppose, but still a good deal. Borrow may have been......

Our Sympathies Are All With Those Who Desire That, Since

we have entered upon it, we should make a good job of Irish purchase and complete the establishment of a peasant pro- prietorship in Ireland. There is, however, something not a......

The Political Notes In Thursday's Times State That The...

of the Liberal Land Committee will be communicated to the Government in September. The chief features of the new Liberal land policy are to be (1) security of tenure through the......

Bank Rate, 4 1 1 ; Per Cent., Changed From 5 Per Cent.

April 17th. Consols (2i) were on Friday 721—Friday week 72i.......