17 FEBRUARY 1923, page 3

Last Week We Directed Our Readers' Attention To The Work

of the Imperial War Relief Fund, General Buildings, Aldwych, W.C. 2. We must this week thank them for their great generosity, since the Fund has already received over £500, as a......

The Board Of Trade Returns For January Seem En- Couraging

at first sight ; later one suspects a forced optimism, and at the end there is no attempt to conceal a definite fear for the future. Although our exports for January, 1923, are......

It Is With Mixed Feelings That We Read In The

Medical Tables for 1921 of the Registrar-Generars annual statistical review, that the death-rate for that year was the lowest on record. We rejoice that disease is being so......

During This Week The World: Has Been Impoverished By The

death of two great thinkers : Wilhelm von ROntgen, the discoverer of X-rays, and Bernard Bosanquet, who with F. A. Bradley, was perhaps the most representative of the English......

Labour Retained The Whitechapel Seat At The By- Election On

Thursday, February 8th. The Labour Member, Mr. Gosling, is an official of the Transport Workers' Union. There was a Prohibition candidate, who obtained precisely 180 votes. The......

Judge Parry In A Letter To The Spectator Suggests That

we should empower County Court Judges to act as conciliators, or juges de paint, in respect of quarrels over increases of rent or notices to quit. Often, he tells us, all that......

We Record With Deep Regret The Death Of Mr. Arthur

Elliot. which took place at his house in the Isle of Wight We record with deep regret the death of Mr. Arthur Elliot. which took place at his house in the Isle of Wight on......

The Disintegration Of Ireland Proceeds. We Noticed Last...

prominence of Mr. O'Higgins, the Free State Minister for Home Affairs. The Irregulars had evidently noticed it, too, for on Monday night they murdered his father, Dr. Thomas......

Bank Rate, 8 Per Cent., Changed From 3i Per Cent.

July 13, 1922 ; 4 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 100k; Thursday week, 1004 ; a year ago, 98i.......