30 JUNE 1906, page 19

The List Of The King's Birthday Honours Which Was Published

on Friday contains some interesting items. Lord Cromer becomes a member of the Order of Merit, a distinction which the whole Empire will agree to be well bee towed. There are ix......

The Morning Post Of Wednesday Contained An Article By Mr.

Spenser Wilkinson on "The Volunteer System." which we welcome as a masterly statement of the views that we have long been urging. His main point is that the nation can be......

On Monday The Secretary Of State For War Opened The

new electrical laboratory at Teddington,—a department of the National Physical Laboratory. Mr. Haldane's speech was a sermon on his favourite text,—the necessity of Geist in our......

A Severe Earthquake Shock, Happily Unattended By Loss Of...

was felt on Wednesday morning throughout South Wales. In Swansea, where the shock was most violent, hundreds of chimneys collapsed, and the panic, was so general that the......

We Publish To-day A Third Letter On The Education Con-

troversy signed " Fiuem Respice." As these striking appeals to Englishmen to remember that the cause of the religion of love can never be served by the propagation of hatred and......

Mr. Chamberlain Was The Chief Speaker At A Meeting Held

on Wednesday in support of the National Association for the Establishment of Sanatoria for Workers Suffering from Tuberculosis. In a brief but excellent speech Mr. Chamberlain......

On Friday Week, At The Annual Meeting Of The General

Committee of the Committee for Church Defence and Church Instruction, Mr. Balfour moved a resolution condemning the Education Bill, and charged the Govern. ment with having......

Bank Bate, Si Per Cent.

Consols (2; per cent.) were on Friday 88.......

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......