17 AUGUST 1901, page 3

On Saturday Last A Great Unionist Demonstration Was Held At

Blenheim, at which Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain were the chief speakers. We have alluded elsewhere to the chief incident of the gathering,—i.e., the declarations of the two......

We Publish In Our Correspondence Columns A Letter From Mr.

C. J. Rhodes which should finally settle the controversy between "C. B." (Mr. Charles Boyd) and Sir Henry Camp- bell-Bannerman. Mr. Rhodes has sent to South Africa for the......

Whatever Shortcomings May Have Existed In Other Refugee...

at Klerksdorp, as described by Reuter's corre- spondent in Wednesday's Times, leaves little room for adverse criticism. In this camp, which contains about three thousand......

The Zoological Conference Now Sitting In Berlin Will, We...

help to confirm the popular idea as to the wisdom of the ant. Professor Morel, of Switzerland, who has made that insect his study, says the ant's brain, in the workers at all......

• In The Disoussion On The Airship Of M. Santos-dumont,

a curious fact has come out. Another Brazilian, Bartholomeo de GTISMiL11, who had been educated by the Jesuits of Paraguay, constructed an aerial machine in 1709, in which he "......

The Friends Of Municipal Reform In New York Have Won

an important success. They have always asserted that the agents of Tammany Hall in the New York police have raised a revenue by selling impunity to the keepers of -saloons,......

The Only Other Matter Of Special Importance Contained In The

speeches was Mr. Balfour's announcement in regard to the alliance between the two sections of the Unionist party. "It was once an alliance," said Mr. Balfour; "it is now an......

A Remarkable Letter, From An M.p.'s Brother Now Serving In

South Africa, has been circulated by the Press Association, and appears in Tuesday's Times. The writer, whose letter is dated from Prieska, July 22nd, describes a conversation......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent.

New Consols (2i) were on Friday 94-1.......