8 APRIL 1905, page 3

The Debate On The Army Estimates In Committee Of Supply

was resumed on Monday. The discussion was no more enlightening than last week's. The same grievances wer e ventilated, the same unsatisfactory answers given, and the House......

The By-election At Brighton, Necessitated By Mr. Gerald...

as a Junior Lord of the Treasury, has resulted in a disastrous defeat for the Government. For the last twenty years Brighton has been invariably represented by a Conservative or......

In The Commons On Tuesday Night Sir J. Leese Moved

a Resolution condemning food-taxes, and declaring that "any Colonial Conference entered upon except on the under- standing that this country will not agree to the taxation of......

Canon Lyttelton, Who For The Last Fifteen Years Has Been

Head-Master of Halleybury College, has been appointed Head-Master of Eton. Canon Lyttelton's record is in many ways such as to render him an ideal occupant of the post. He is a......

On Wednesday And Thursday Nights The Discussion Of The Army

Estimates was resumed, and again Mr. Arnold-Forster met his critics with "explanations" as to the intentions of the Government which left matters very much as they were. The......

Mr. Arnold-forster's Speeches In The Two Debates Do Not Seem

to us to get the matter much forward. There is some- thing to be said for his refusal to curtail the number of battalions of the Regular Army, and his desire rather to reduce......

The Effect Of The Brighton Election On Unionist Opinion Has

been most marked. The Daily Mail finds in it further arguments for its call for a Dissolution, which call has become the marked feature of the paper during the past ten days.......

Bank Rate, 2i. Per Cent.

Consols (21 per cent.) were on Friday 91.......