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On Monday Mr. Chaplin, While Introducing His Bill For Paying

half the rates on agricultural land by means of an Imperial grant-in-aid, gave some very striking quotations from the evidence laid before the Royal Commission to prove that the......

Two Persons Who, If Not Exactly Eminent, Are Well-known To

the public, have disappeared this week. The first is M. Mon Say, the French Senator, political economist, and statesman. M. Say was, as a clear thinker, a master of State......

The Italians Are Not Prospering On The Red Sea, And

we are. It appears to be certain that the negotiations with the Emperor Menelek, which seemed to be advancing favour. ably, have been broken off, the Italians making it a sine......

Mr. Asquith Made A Speech At Walsall On Monday, Which

was a sort of full-dress rehearsal, we suppose, of the speech he will deliver in the House of Commons in moving the rejection of the Education Bill. He declared that that Bill......

The Debates In The Reichstag On Duelling, Caused By The

death of Herr von Schrader, have proved as sterile as debates in Germany often do. Dr. Bachem, speaking for the Centre on Monday, denounced the practice as contrary alike to......

Mr. Bayard, The Ambassador Of The United States To This

country, made a most cordial speech at Birmingham on Wednesday after visiting the technical school and the Mason College, the Free Library and the Shakespeare Memorial Library,......