19 DECEMBER 1908, page 3

Sir Adam Block, The Alternative President Of The Council Of

the Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt, strongly supports the commercial independence of Turkey in an able, letter in Monday's Times. The exceptional fiscal privileges—.......

On Monday The Royal Geographical Society Held A Special...

to celebrate Speke's discovery of the Victoria Nyanza. Sir W. Garstin read a most interesting paper in which he reviewed the exploration of the Nile since Speke's time, and......

Mr. Vivian, M.p., In A Striking Letter In The Timm

of last Saturday notes that many Trade-Unionists who had paid for twenty or thirty years into the funds of an association organised for providing strike-pay, out-of-work......

On Saturday Last Mr. Burns Presided At A Dinner Given

to Mr. W. H. Dickinson, M.P., in recognition of his municipal services to London. The Progressives of " the civic renaissance of 1889" had, be declared, inspiration and ideals.......

On Friday Week Mr. Asquith At A Dinner Emphasised The

. fact that the Lords had in effect rejected the Licensing Bill before a word had been uttered in their House in explanation of its principles. He compared with the treatment of......

Lord Lansdowne, While Owning To Serious Misgivings, And...

right to press for amendments in Committee, admitted the special claims of miners, and announced his intention to vote for the second reading. Lord St. Aldwyn cordially......

We Have Dealt Elsewhere With The General Situation...

Mr. Asquith's speech. We must, however, protest as Free- traders against his monstrous suggestion that the Liberals should at the next General Election go to the country on the......

On Monday Mr. John Long, Publisher, Was Summoned At...

Street Police Court for selling an indeeent book entitled "The Yoke." A second summons required him to show cause why the copies of the book on his premises should not be......

Bank Rate, 24 Per Cent., Changed From 3 Percent. May

28th. Consols (24) were on Friday 831—on Friday week 831.......