31 OCTOBER 1903, page 2

The Foreign Office Has Selected Sir. Mortimer Durand, Now...

at,Xadrid, as the new Ambassador at Washini- ton. ' The appointment• is an unusual 'one,' Sir Mortimer's experience having been principally in the East, and he himself having......

Mr. Chamberlain Made His Campaign Speeches This Week At...

The first was delivered to a large and enthusiastic popular audience on Tuesday in the Hippodrome. We have dealt elsewhere with the fantastic and impossible personal pledge......

On Wednesday Mr. Chamberlain, Speaking At The Town Hall...

appealed to the Duke of Devonshire to . induce the Free-looders to change their name, and de- nounced as a preposterous doctrine the view—which he attributed to them—that a tax......

On Saturday Last Mr. Asquith, Speaking At Newcastle-on-...

his most luminous and valuable exposition of the fallacies of Mr. Chamberlain's scheme. The chief points in a remarkable speech were his exposure of the curious system of......

Two By-elections Have Been Decided Since Our Last Issue, One

of which throws some light upon the popular appreciation of Protection, while the other does not. The first was the return for Warwick and Leamington of the Right Hon. A.......

Mr. Chamberlain's Facts And Figures Were, As Usual In His

recent speeches, of a very disputable order, and in dealing with the question of "dumping" he showed himself entirely unable to grasp the case of his opponents. After a few......

The Attitude Of The Canadian Opposition In Regard To The

Alaskan boundary decision has made it necessary for the Ministry to say something on that question. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, if we can judge from the cabled summary, seems to have......