29 MAY 1909, page 2

In The House Of Commons On Tuesday Mr. William Redmond's

amendment to the Tobacco Excise Duty Resolution proposing to exempt Irish-grown tobacco from the proposed increase of the duty was supported by all the Tariff Reformers—Mr.......

The Times Of Last Saturday Published A Letter In Which

Lord George Hamilton criticised the Government estimate as to the yield of the new taxation. According to this estimate, the yield for 1909-10 will be £14,200,000, and the......

Lord Charles Beresford At The Annual Australasian Banquet...

week made an interesting speech on the subject of Imperial defence. In his opinion, our great Dominions could beat help us, not by spending two millions on battleships to serve......

A Full Consideration Of The Matter Has Brought Us To

the conclusion that this would be in reality much the safest and most satisfactory formula. Under it we should know exactly where we stood without having to raise any......

This Was Quite Too Much For Mr. Healy, Who Replied

with an explosion of sardonic irony. Irish Members, he said, did not come there to be lectured by English Members ; they came to teach them the only subjects they......

The Chief Burgomaster And Other Members Of The Berlin...

Council have paid a visit to London during the week. On Tuesday, when the visitors were at the City of London School for Boys, the Chief Burgomaster declared that the only......

In The House Of Commons On Wednesday A Confused And

irritating debate took place on the question of the two-Power standard,—a debate which arose on Captain Craig's Motion that " this House would view with alarm any modification......

Sir George Armstrong, Addressing A Meeting Of The Navy...

at Kensington Town Hall on Wednesday, made some further disclosures as to the Bacon lettere. After mentioning the really astonishing fact that the first and second letters, and......

Of Mr. Balfour's Speech We Can Only Say That The

greater part of it showed a strong sense of what Lord John Russell once called the House of Commons' conscience. At the same time, we endorse his conclusion that it is of real......