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Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent., Changed From 4 Per Cent.

Jan. 29th. Consols (21) were on Friday 751—Friday week 752,......

We Should Like To Ask Any Unprejudiced Person Who Knows

Lord Crewe, and knows his public and private record—one absolutely stainless in the matter of delicacy and discretion— whether he thinks that Lord Crewe really believes that......

In Committee Of Supply On Tuesday In The Commons Mr.

Hope moved to reduce the salary of the First Lord of the Treasury for failing to act on the recommendation of the Lords' Report on the case of Lord Murray, by issuing instruc-......

Before We Leave The Subject We Should Like Once More

to express our regret at the way in which the Opposition speakers have again and again allowed the Government to escape the crucial test in the Marconi question. The point which......

If Men Of Such Standing Would Say That They Would

have done so, then of course, whether rightly or wrongly, we must alter our whole standard of Ministerial delicacy and discretion in pecuniary matters, and accept as inevitable......

On Monday Night Mr. Lloyd George Announced The Details Of

what the Times calls the third edition of the Finance Bill Part IV. (which deals with local grants-in-aid) into be dropped, since without a further resolution this cannot be put......

Lord Kitchener, Who Presided At The International...

Agriculture at the Imperial Institute on Monday, gave an interesting account of the reclamation of waste salt, impregnated land at Biala, in the Nile Delta. As a result of......

As We Go To Press We Learn With Deep Regret

that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain died on Thursday night in London. We cannot attempt to write now of the fame and the significance of a career which for more than a generation luta......

The Atmosphere Became Still More Electric When Lord Hugh...

commented ironically on the scrupulousness of Minis- terialists in regarding it as an imputation gravely dishonour. lugto the Civil Service merely to warn them against doing......

In The House Of Lords On Wednesday Lord Saye And

Sale made a personal statement in regard to the censures passed upon him at the Central Criminal Court during the hearing of the Army Canteens Case. After reading Lord Saye and......

The Death Of Lord Wemyss, Within A Few Weeks Of

coin- pleting his ninety-sixth year, removes a most picturesque figure, a groat patrician, and a true patriot. He entered Parliament seventy-four years ago, he took an active......