18 DECEMBER 1915, page 3

In The House Of Commons On Thursday Week Sir Henry

Dalziel asked that the terms of the agreement between the British Government and the Merchants' Guild of Copenhagen, and the Industrial Association of Denmark, should be......

Owing, However, To A Series Of Technical Points, Most Of

them due to that dread of taking any responsibility which marks the War Office, and also to the soldier's instinctive shyness of employing men who have not received full......

On Tuesday A Notice Was Issued Stating That, Though The

King had largely got over his accident, his convalescence was not complete, that he had lost seriously in weight, and that in view of this fact his medical advisers had insisted......

Lord Robert Cecil Absolutely Refused To Reveal The Terms Of

the agreement, but said that he regarded it as an excellent arrangement. We cannot ourselves regard what is known of the agreement as at all satisfactory. Or rather we should......

We Mean To Treat The Plural Voting Bill And The

party intrigues with which it is surrounded with the contempt they merit. Therefore we shall say nothing, now on this score. We meet, however, even at the risk of drawing near......

It Is Hardly Necessary To Say That The King's Temporary

use of alcohol on doctors' orders does not in the very slightest degree interfere with the foroe of his example, or weaken the influence of his pledge in the public interest.......

And Hero We Should Like To Note A Point Of

special importance. We are not partioular admirers of our party system, and have always insisted that the antiseptio of party is the willingness of men to leave the party on......

Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 6 P.c. Aug.

8th, 1914........

In The House Of Commons On Monday Mr. Asquith Said

that the Government did not propose a reduction of Ministerial and parliamentary salaries. Mr. Birrell, who had suggested reduc- tion, had spoken for himself. Mr. McKenna......

Mr. Bonar Law's Speech Bristles With Wise Things Well Said,

but we shall only deal with one of them—that passage in which he pointed out that the Coalition Government does not exist if it means only that half-a-dozen Unionists are in the......

It Is Worth Remembering That The Volunteers Are Now No

untried body of whom it is possible for military men to say, that it remains to be seen whether they will be of use, and so on. All the soldiers who have seen the Volunteers at......