6 JANUARY 1883, page 16

The British Proposal For The Suez Canal. T He Times Of

Friday makes an announcement which, if true, is of great importance. The British Government, after a deliberation almost needlessly long, has agreed to pro- pose to the Powers......

Mr. Chamberlain On Local Taxation.

M OST people have at one time or another been stopped on their way from a foreign station to their hotel by the officers of the Octroi, and many of them, perhaps, have thought......

Mr. Raikes On Opposition.

M R. RAIKES'S article, in the Nineteenth Century, on the duties of Opposition, is interesting chiefly as betraying how curiously deep the Tories' belief still is that by highly......