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The Confederate Leader Goes On To Make Other Complaints Of

a similar nature, and is specially angry that " British subjects are engaged in Ireland by tens of thousands" to fight against the Confederates " in defiance both of the law of......

Another Serious Mistake Made In The Preface To The...

is the encouragement of that hoary convention which in these columns we have never ceased to protest against, that England took the side of the South during the Civil War, and......

Mr. Herbert Vivian Has Been Examining The Books In...

library at Elba, and has picked out for the edification of the readers of the Times some passages which Napoleon had marked. The book which seems to have attracted Napoleon most......

To Hint That There Was Ever Any Such Expectation Or

desire here is not only absolutely contrary to the fact, but keeps alive in the minds of Americans an idea, widely spread by German writers and speakers in the United States,......

Mr. John Fortescue, Librarian To The King, Wrote To The

papers of Friday week to say that the King wished to collect a complete series of re gi mental histories for the Royal Library. Certain regi- ments and battalions have compiled......

The Four Chief Questions On Which The Conference Will Be

asked to report are : (1) Simplification of our registration machinery. (2) Changes in the franchise. (3) Redistribution of seats on an equit- able and automatic basis. (4)......

Perhaps The Best Proof Which We Can Give In Support

of our contention as to British action is to point out the fact that if our Government were favourable to the Confederate States, the latter at any rate were unaware of the......

Bank Rate, 6 Per Cent., Changed From 5 Per Cent.

July 13th.......

Lord Northcliffe Sent To The Ti'ines Of Vi'ednesday An...

of medical work at the front which is the best thing we have read on this subject that is all too little written about. Lord Northcliffe, assuming no knowledge on the part of......

But Though There Was So Wide A Desire That America

should keep out of the quarrel, there was of course an intense feeling of dis- appointment that, while refusing to engage in hostilities, she did not make that protest which one......

The Manchester Guardian Published On Tuesday An "...

" full of interesting and valuable matter contributed by men so distinguished as Lord Bryce, Dr. Eliot, at one time President of Harvard-University, and exTresident Taft,......

The " Political Notes " In The Times Of Wednesday

contained some highly interesting information about the Conference on Electoral Reform. The Conference, which was criginally reggested by Mr. Walter Long, will be confined to......