25 MAY 1907, page 3

In The Times Of Wednesday The Facts Of The Present

railway dispute are explained by a correspondent. As is already well known, the chief demand on behalf of the men is that the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants be "......

The Report Of The Departmental Committee Appointed To...

the effect of a legal eight-hours working day in coal-mines was published on Wednesday as a Blue-book. We can mention only a few of the principal conclusions. The present......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 4i Per Cent.

Apr. 25th Consols (2j) were on Friday 841—on Friday week 85.......

The Writer Declares That The Employes, Many Of Whom Are

trained speakers, are so well able to present their own case lucidly and eloquently that they would lose rather than gain by being represented by a general secretary who is not......

The Home Secretary In Accepting The Report Adopts A Position

which we feel bound to describe as astonishing. He declares that, though Mr. Edalji is not entitled to a free pardon according to the principles which have for many years......

On Saturday Last Sir Benjamin Baker, The Famous Engineer,...

suddenly in his sixty-seventh year. Sir Benjamin Baker, whose name is inseparably associated with some of the greatest engineering feats of the age—the Forth Bridge, and the......

It Is The First Rule Of British Criminal Law To

convict a man for the offence of which he is accused and not for some other. The notion of saying that a man wrongly convicted of forgery has little to complain of because there......