25 APRIL 1908, page 19

The By-election In North-west Manchester Has Monopolised...

home during the week. On Monday night Mr. Winston Churchill made two important pronouncements. The first related to the prospects of a concordat on the education question on......

Mr. Lloyd George Spoke No Fewer Than Four Times In

support of Mr. Churchill on Tuesday. His chief speech, delivered at the Gaiety Theatre in the afternoon, was a brilliant piece of electioneering advocacy and excited great......

Mr. Churchill's Explicit Declaration, Prompted By The...

delegation of Irish Nationalist Members, elicited a manifesto from the United Irish League of Great Britain signed by Mr. John Redmond and Mr. T. P. O'Connor. The manifesto......

The Diplomatic And Consular Appropriation Bill Was Under...

the - United States Congress on Mon. clay, and led to some pointed allusions to alleged devia- tions from Republican simplicity on the part of the Ambassadors in Berlin, London,......

Free-trade Was Not Only Best In The Interests Of Commerce,

but it was a great pacificator. It was "slowly but surely clearing a path through the dense and dark thicket of arma- ments to the sunny land of brotherhood among nations." But......

An Interesting Letter From Mr. Balfour Was Published In...

papers, in which he confidently anticipated the success of Mr. Joynson-Hicks. Mr. Balfour draws this hopeful conclusion from the contrast between Liberal promises and......

We May Note That While So Staunch A Free-trader As

Professor Dicey appeals to Manchester Unionists to reject Mr. Winston Churchill as a Home-rule candidate, so stalwart a Unionist as Mr. Arthur Elliot supports his candidature in......

The Result Of The Poll At Dewsbury, Where Mr. Runciman

was seeking re-election on his promotion to the Cabinet, wail declared on Thursday night as follows :— Mr. W. Runeiman (L.) 5,594 Mr. W. B. Boyd-Carpenter (U.) ... 4,078 Mr. Ben......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent., Changed From 34 Percent. March

19th. Consols (24) were on Friday 861—on Thursday week 874.......