On Monday There Was An Instructive Debate On The Post-
poned Clause XXV., which exempts from the new Land-taxes land held for public or charitable purposes. Sir P. Magnus, who moved an amendment exempting Universities, secondaty......
The Portuguese Consulate-general In London Has Issued A...
a Royal Decree, dated July 29th, 1909, which suspends for three months the recruiting of labour in Angola for the cocoa plantations in San Thome and Principe. The Times of......
Professor Adolf Wagner Made A Remarkable Speech On...
a dinner of the German Verein fur Sozialpolitik, which is holding its meetings at Vienna. The burden of the speech, according to the Times correspondent, was the import- ance of......
In The Commons On Friday Week Clause T.xtv Of The
Finance Bill, which imposes Customs and Excise Duties on motor-spirit, and applies to its manufacture or use regulations enforced on the making and selling of saccharin, was......
On Monday At Athens A Meeting Of Some Fifty Thousand
people was organised to support the programme of civil and military reforms which the Military League recently forced upon M. Mavromichaeli. The resolution, as we learn from the......
Lord Lansdowne, While Fully Endorsing Lord Dunraven's...
support his Motion on the ground that there would be ample opportunity of discussing and amending the Bill in Committee. As it stood, it was no mere expansion of the Act of......
During The Week The Hudson-fulton Celebrations Have...
interest in New York. Hudson was employed by the Dutch East India Company to under- take his famous voyages of 1607-1610. The Company had a monopoly of the trade to India by the......
Lord Crewe In Moving The Second Reading Of The Irish
Land Bill in the House of Lords on Tuesday declared that the Government had no desire for general compulsion to deal with congestion, but they would have to keep it as a weapon......
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