20 SEPTEMBER 1902, page 3

We Read With Much Regret The Unfavourable Report Of Lord

Salisbury's health given in Friday's Times. We trust that the reported illness will prove to be only temporary. Lord Salisbury may never again be Prime Minister; but he will......

The Educational Science Section Made An Entertaining...

on Tuesday under the personal conduct of Sir Frederick Bramwell. Setting aside the manufacture of an artificial universal language as impracticable, Sir Frederick suggests that......

The Terrible' Cruiser Arrived In Plymouth Sound On...

proceeding on Thursday to Portsmouth to pay off. The record of the historic commission now closed is one unequalled in modern naval history. Detained at the Cape on his way out......

The Standard Announced On Wednesday That The Round Table...

convened by Captain Shawe-Taylor to promote an amicable understanding between landlords and tenants in Ireland would be held in Dublin before the end of the present month. It......

In The Anthropological Section No Paper Was Of More Interest

than that read by Dr. William Graham on Tuesday on " The Mental and Moral Characteristics of the People of Ulster." Limiting the term " Ulsterman " to that element in the......

The Meeting Of The British Association At Belfast Has Been

a fairly successful one. Many valuable papers were read, though there was no one, if we except Professor H. E. Armstrong's on technical education, of universal interest. There......

The Annual Paper On The National Debt Contains Figures Which

show that we have entered on an era of vast exoendi• tare as well as vast prosperity:— National Debt 284 25 Army and Navy 271 ... 33 Civil Services 154 ... 174 Customs and......

:colonel Sir Thomas Holdich On Monday Gave The Associa- Tion

a most interesting lecture on the gradual "shrinkage of the unknown world," which is now so nearly complete. There is no further chance for the explorer of finding any- thing......

Bank Bate, 3 Per Cent.

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 94......