30 JUNE 1906, page 18

On Wednesday An Animated But Somewhat Confused Discus-

sion took place over amendments moved by Mr. Birrell. Mr. Balfour insisted that the Referendum to the parents should be clear and unambiguous. Mr. Birrell, who promised to issue......

The Education Bill Has Been Under Discussion In The House

of Commons during the whole week. On Monday the struggle over Clause IV. began in the form of a debate on Mr. Evelyn Cecil's amendment making Clause IV. mandatory. Mr. Birrell,......

A Tragic Echo Of The Revolution In The Caucasus Is

heard in the appeal of the Georgian women " to the women of free • countries" published in last Saturday's Times. It will be remembered that the outbreak at Tiflis last December......

Later, Mr. Birrell, Defending The Four-fifths Clause,...

had been drawn with a view of benefiting one denomination more than another. Mr. Chamberlain followed with one of those sub-secularist speeches which, strangely enough, always......

In These Circumstances, It Is Difficult To Comment With...

on the questions addressed by Mr. Dillon, Mr. Paul, and Mr. Byles to Sir Edward Grey on Thursday evening. None can be more anxious than ourselves that the strictest justice......

The Four Egyptian Natives Who Were Condemned To Death For

the murder of Captain Bull and the attack on the other British officers were hanged on Thursday, and six others con- victed of complicity in the crime were flogged and sentenced......

'the Unrest Of Which We Have Seen Signs Lately Among

all Mohammedan peoples in the northern half of Africa has produced a rising of rebels in Kordofan. The post of Taloudi was besieged by a force of Arab slave-traders, who......

We Cannot Say That We Like The Plan Of Voting

important clauses without debate, but we are bound to admit that the Opposition, or, rather, the House as a whole, is to blame for this quite as much as the Ministry. No one......