24 JUNE 1905, page 19

We Note With Pleasure The Continued Growth Of The Unionist

Free-Trade Club. The following, amongst many others, have recently been elected members :—Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir West Ridgeway, the Right Hon. F. J. S.......

Mr. Brodrick Next Described The New Rearrangement Of...

administration by which the Government proposed to put an end to the friction caused by the present system, viz., the establishment of two departments,—an Army De- partment......

Mr. Brodrick Introduced The Indian Budget On Wednesday....

of a number of drawbacks—plague, scarcity, and earthquake—he was able to report exceptional prosperity, the revenue being the largest ever gathered, while the surplus amounted......

Mr. Brodrick's Statement Was On The Whole Very Favourably...

on both sides of the House. Sir Henry Fowler dissented from the grounds on which the great increase of military expenditure was demanded, but approved of the compromise arrived......

A Remarkable Discovery Has Been Made By Mr. Burke, Of

the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. After several years' negative experimentation on the phosphorescence of cyanogen, which bad been declared by Pfliiger to contain the element......

Mr. Rider Haggard, Who Some Months Ago Was Sent To

America by the Colonial Office to inquire. into the settlement schemes organised by the Salvation Army, has issued a Report which is both a valuable account of an interesting......

The Melbourne Age, One Of The Leading Australian Papers And

a strong supporter of Protection, has published a remarkable article on Chinese labour in South Africa. We cannot associate ourselves with its wholesale denunciation of......

Bank Rate, 2f Per Cent.

Consols (2-1- per cent.) were on Fridar901.......