14 MAY 1904, page 3

We Regret To Record The Death Of Sir H. M.

Stanley, the well-known African explorer, which took place in London on Tuesday. Sir Henry Stanley's first great exploit was the discovery of Livingstone, a work which he......

On Thursday In The Birmingham Town Hall Mr. Chamber- Lain

addressed a mass meeting consisting of the Grand Com- mittee of the Birmingham, Aston, and Handsworth Liberal Unionist Associations. As all Free-traders who were not blind to......

Mr. Balfour, Who Followed, Insisted That Mr. Asquith's...

to the effect of the action of the Inland Revenue authorities were unsound, and urged that the grant of the annual license did create a property of a kind which must in equity......

In Other Words, We First Make A Valuable Annual Present,

and then provide means for giving the recipient handsome compensation if we shoed ever stop the present. Our proper course would obviously be to pay the so•called compensation......

We Are Not Among Those Who Think That It Is

a crime to drink or to sell intoxicants, and hold it per se to be as moral to drink a glass of beer as a glass of milk. We greatly dislike, therefore, the extreme temperance......

We Deal Elsewhere With Those Passages In Mr. Balfour's...

at the Albert Hall yesterday week in which he referred to the Macedonian and Chinese labour questions. We may notice here, however, the strange inconsistency of his attitude......

We Have Dwelt On The Lessons Of The Speech For

Free-trade Unionists elsewhere, and can only find space here to note one other point. In spite of Mr. Chamberlain's bold words and generally aggressive tone, there was......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

Consols (29 per cent.) were on Friday 901,......