15 AUGUST 1903, page 3

Our Correspondent "leonia," Whose Letter On The Possible...

a tax on paper we publish in another column, is indignant at the idea of such a tax, and very naturally and properly, as he is a Free-trader. It seems to us, however, that those......

Lord James Of Hereford, In His Letter Of August 10th

to the chairman of a Lancashire Liberal Unionist Association, on the subject of preferential tariffs, strikes no uncertain note. "'Whatever action Unionists take in support of......

'the Indian Budget Was Discussed In The Comnions On...

and with that discussion the work of the Session practically ended,—a Session which has been momentous in a high degree, and may prove the last of the Parliament elected in......

The Report Of The Royal Commission On Alien Immigration...

in March, 1902, was laid upon the table of the House of Commons on Tuesday. This movement has not been proved to have caused any serious displacement of skilled English labour,......

The Forty-ninth Annual Report Of The Postmaster-general...

2,580,000,000 letters were received in the United Kingdom, an increase of over 5 per cent. on the previous year. In all nearly 4,144,000,000 postal packets were delivered. The......

The Paper Just Communicated To The French Physical...

M. Curie on the subject of the heat production of radium is dealt with in an able special article in the Times of Thursday. There can no longer be any doubt that radium, in......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

Consols (29 per cent.) were on Friday 901.......