12 SEPTEMBER 1903, page 2

The Board Of Trade Returns, Issued On Monday, Will Afford

no support to those who maintain that financially we are "bleeding to death." For the eight months of the present year the total value of imports shows an advance of 21,647,000,......

A Correspondent Of The Times Gives An Illuminating...

the present position of politics in Japan. The "elder statesmen" who managed the " Restoration " of the Mikado's power are now reduced to three,—Marquis Ito, Marquis Yama- gata,......

The Manchester Guardian Of Tuesday Publishes A Detailed

report of a most interesting conversation with Mr. Arthur Chamberlain. Dealing with the new fiscal policy, Mr. Arthur Chamberlain addressed himself to the exposure of the......

The Eleventh Inter-parliamentary Conference On Peace Is...

and is attended by more than five hundred eminent persons, including several diplomatists of mark. Their object is to support the practice of appealing to arbi- tration through......

The President Dwelt In The Most Attractive Passage Of His

address on the importance of research. "It was a King of France, Louis XIV., who first commended the study of the meme inutile. Years ago we had Faraday apparently wasting his......

It Seems To Be Admitted By Most Russians That M.

de Witte, the able Minister of Finance, has been kicked upstairs. He will not, they think, as President of the Council of Ministers, be able to do much, the autocracy being......

In Numbers, In Endowment, In Efficiency, Our Universities...

to those of our chief rivals. We in Great Britain had thirteen Universities competing with a hundred and thirty-four State and privately endowed Universities in the United......

• Southport On Wednesday. Frankly Abandoning Any Attempt...

record the recent achievements of science or to trace its future course, he dealt exclusively with the national need of improved scientific education. The progress of science,......