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The Economy (miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, Which Was...

time in the House of Commons en Monday, and was carried by 199 votes to 57, is rightly named, inasmuch as it deals with a multitude of subjects, small and great. One clause......

On Friday, July 7th, Lord Balfour Presided At The Annual

meeting of the London Library. He was able to endorse a most satisfactory report, as also was Mr. Gosse, who, we are glad to note, was elected as Vice-President. That is a most......

In The House Of Lords On Monday, The Duke Of

Northumber- land put a very pertinent question to the Government when he asked whether the people who had hawked about promises of honours had done so with the authority of the......

The City Corporation, As We Write On Thursday, Is Engaged

in discussing the revived scheme for a new bridge over the Thames immediately to the south of St. Paul's. We earnestly hope that the Corporation will delay a decision and give......

Our Readers Will Hear With Great Pleasure That The Trustees

of the National Gallery have determined to try an experiment in the policy of making our Palaces of. Art also Palaces for the Peoples Pleasure. They are arranging for a......

Altogether It Is A Pretty Muddle. Those Of Us Who

used to persevere in walking on the right in spite of sundry attempts to force us from that constitutional position now hardly know what to do. Formerly, when we collided......

Lord Long, Who, By The Way, Was The Originator Of

the embargo, now said that it ought to be ended, as he regarded the pledge given by Lord Ernie at the Imperial Conference as a pledge that extended beyond the War and must he......

We Have Written At Length, Elsewhere, About The Problem Of

the Canadian cattle embargo, but we must record here the most interesting and encouraging debate which took place in the House of Lords on Wednesday. Lord Chaplin moved a......

Lord Lee Of Fareham Informed The House Of Lords On

Tuesday that the Admiralty adhered to its decision to build the two capital ships sanctioned by the Washington Treaty. They would be reasonably proof against any likely methods......

The Rev. Conrad Noel, Vicar Of Thaxted, Was Ordered By

the Consistory Court last Saturday to remove the Red flag and the Sinn Fein colours with which he had persisted in decorat- ing the church for some years. The Chancellor of the......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent., Changed From 31 Per Cent.

July 13, 19221 5 per cent War Loan was on Thursday, 1001 6 ; Thursday week, 100; a year ago, 88k.......