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We Regret To Record The Death Of Mr. Jesse Collings

on Saturday last. The veteran politician, who was eighty-eight, will be remembered as the close ally of Mr. Chamberlain and as the ardent advocate of small holdings and......

Colonel Malone, The Member For East Luton, Was Convicted At

Bow Street on Friday. November 19th, of advocating sedition in his Albert Hall speech of November 7th. Ho was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, but was released on bail......

An Unemployment (relief Works) Bill Was Read A Second Time

in the House of Commons on Thursday, November 18th. Mr. Munro explained that the Bill would empower departments and local bodies to acquire land compulsorily for "works of......

Lord Salisbury Said That No One Liked The Bill Or

believed that the Irish were really fit to govern themselves. Home Rule would not work in a disaffected Ireland. Lord Londonderry defended the Bill as a fair compromise, and......

Lord Duzuaven Moved The Rejection Of The Bill On The

ground that it met with no support from most Irishmen, who wanted "full fiscal and financial control" over Trish affair' s. Lord Willoughby de Broke said that he still believed......

Lord Grey Of Fallodon, Continuing The Debate On...

that the Liberals from 1886 onwards had erred in not recognizing Ulster's right to separate treatment. Yet there could be no settlement until the differences between North and......

The Lord Chancellor, In The House Of Lords On Tuesday,

moved the second reading of the Government of Ireland Bill in an able and temperate speech. He pointed out that Ulster must either be left within the Union or given a separate......

Loygues, The French Premier, Made An Important State....

Greece in the Chamber on Tuesday. France, he said, did not wish to intervene in Greek domestic affairs. But if Greece recalled a sovereign who was the accomplice of our enemies,......

Sir Charles Townshend Was Returned In Saturday's...

Wrekin division of Shropshire as an independent supporter of the Coalition. He defeated the Labour candidate, Mr. Duncan, by 3,965 votes on a heavy poll. In the by-election of......

The Agriculture Bill Was Considered On The Report Stage In

the Home of Commons last week and again this week. The agricultural members tried hard to reduce the heavy compensa- tion payable to a dispossessed tenant, but the Government......

Bank Rate, 7 Per Cent., Changed From 3 Per Cent.

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 821; Thursday week, 83k; a year ago, 901......