30 AUGUST 1969, page 6

Northern Ireland

Orange bitters MARTIN WALLACE 'There is absolutely no change in the con- stitutional position in Northern Ireland and no diminuation in the powers of the Northern Ireland......

America

Mr Nixon plays Disraeli MURRAY KEMPTON Well/lees, Mass.—The country, this August, is curiously like Paris in any August, its public life suspended. Mr Nixon is in Orange County,......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator'. 28 August 1869—In the dearth of better subjects, the discussion on the propriety of Formosa has been going on all the week without any particular result,......