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was special revenue. The Chancellor said that ho contemplated a falling revenue, because the people's savings were exhausted. He anticipated a decline of £46,343,000 in Customs...

The beer duty, of which the Labour Party complains bitterly, brought in £2,000,000 more than was anticipated. So did the duties on tobacco, sugar and tea. On the other hand, the...

Supply Services for 1922-23 would be £546,500,000—£460,000,000 for ordinary services, £61,500,000 for special services and £25,000,000 for contingencies. The revenue, and...

IR ROBERT HORNE introduced his Budget on Monday. 10 It delivered certain goods which were long overdue, but the Government can be given no credit for doing what was at once...

Bills at lower rates the Government saved £11,000,000. The Supply Services cost £69,000,000 less than was expected, but there was unforeseen expenditure on unem- ployment...

against the hard-pressed landowners who have transferred their estates to limited companies. He announced also that land and house property would be reassessed for Schedule A of...

boiling before its old crust had settled down. . . . You have this racial lava-surging right through.the surface of .Europe.." Referring to the Treaty between Germany and...

with which Mr. Lloyd George spoke was unmistakably sincere, ,and, etit is only too Joey to •see reasons why he has eo far failed in his excellent intentions. The comparison with...

the excessive postal rates, which Mr. Kellaway was ill-advised' enough to increase last year to the grave disadvantage of the community without benefiting the revenue. Sunday...

concerted terms for offering to Russia. At-present the outlook is not good. France and , Belgium have-both:refused to agree to the draft so far considered. Even if agreement...

Chancellor had _not _got a real .surpius.out of -.which to ,remit taxation. The Supplementary :Estimates since the War' had . been wn average £100,000,000, but Sir :Robert Home...

Council should be held at San -Remo in order to help on the Genoa -Conference. M. Poineare has evidently no desire.'for any anoh -m.eeting, at least not for a month or two,...

that the Budget was as good as could be expected. ' It would be wrong to insist on repaying so much debt every -year whether trade was good, or' bad. We had, in fact, paid off....

the success of the Conference. The latest draft of the Memorandum setting forth the • terms for helping Russia provides for the formation of an international Con- sortium and...

remaining 5-340309, 0 90 of his expected -surplus. As we had paid off £322,000,000 of debt in two years, and as trade was still bad, he .bad decided to suspend the Sinking Fund,...

Laming Worthington-Evans presented the Report of the Financial Commission. This report is the first definite achievement • of the Conference. It displays unanimity in asserting...

a 'Court of Inquiry- on the engineering dispute, .under the Industrial Courts Act, so that the public might be informed of the true facts. The inquiry was begun on Wednesday ;...

the President of the Provisional Government. justified all that his troops had done, pointing out that they were only defending themselves. Ultimately it was agreed that a...

that the Government would leave the House of Commons free to vote on the motion for the removal of the embargo on the importation of live cattle from overseas. He himself would...

example of France in making - aseeret agreement with Turkey. Mr. - Cham- berlain, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, stated that the agreement was concluded on April 24th....

Thursday's Times by reminding us that Lord Ernle's promise of ' 1917 to admit Canadian cattle was given without Cabinet sanction, and was based on a forecast which he has since...

but we may add here 'a few of the latest details. A battle which had been going on between the regular and the irregular forces of the I.R.A. at Kilkenny came to an end on...

launched yet another campaign of terrorism in the Six Counties. The Belfast correspondent of -the Morning' Poet says in Thursday's paper that this was opened simultaneously, in...

Turks -have given something , for nothing. It is very strange. Only five weeks ago the Allies came to an arrangement in Paris about the basis of peace in Asia Minor. Although we...

E. C. Grenfell, of the firm of Morgan,- Grenfell• and Co., as their candidate for the seat vacated by Sir -Arther Balfour on his acceptance of an earldom. Sir Vansittart •...

13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 99 ; Ti=day week, 99i ; a year ago, 871.

THE BUDGET. N 0 one can regard. the. Budget with enthusiasm. It is at beat a .much delayed recognition of a vital fact. It is also an inefficient recognition. It is true that we...

W E do not ourselves feel so strongly as do some of the Government's critics in regard to the suspension of the sinking funds. Frankly, we are not in love with the idea of...

" V OLTAIRE'S remark was witty—that is, true— when he made it." So says Mr. Bernard Shaw in a most interesting confession of spiritual inclination pub- lished in the May number...

W E publish elsewhere a strikingletter from Mr: Herman Cohen suggesting that' there should be an impartial inquiry into the position of: the- Jews and the reasonable- ness or...

T HE situation in 'Ireland is as bad as ever, and this is not through any lack of recognition by various groups of Irishmen that their country is being strangled and clubbed to...

THE BUDGET. VARYING VIEWS. — QUALIFIED APPROVAL BY TRADERS. — WELCOMED IN THE STOCK EX- CHANGE.—BANKERS MORE CRITICAL. iTo TEX EDITOR or TES " SPWLITOR,"] SIR,—Having...

T HE creak of the bullock-cart is the luggage going to the station. The Head of the District has packed ; a few odds and ends, forgotten trifles, things too bulky or obsolete to...

[Letters of the. length of one of our leading, paragraphs- are often more read, and therefore more eReative, than-those which fill treble the space.] THE YEWS. (To rat EDITOR....

THE SPECTATOR."' Sm,—The 'pronouncement which has just been issued by the Roman Catholic Bishops at Maynooth on the state of Northern Ireland 'merits serious notice. This...

SPECTATOR."' think your readers may be interested in the following examples of the liberty and liberality towards the minority in Southern Ireland, in a letter from a Belfast...

Snt,—Perhaps you may find space to allow me to draw the attention of your readers to some objections to the proposals of the recent Royal Commission on Oxford and Cambridge with...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " S9ECTATOR."1 SIR,— " They told sae, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed." Familiar...

of mind. A writer in the Journal des Debats describes him, happily, as erudit et croyant. By birth a Breton, he retained at once the piety and the adventurousness of the seaman,...

" SPECTATOR."] Sia,—With reference to Mr. Sidney Beckwith's letter in your issue of April 29th, Lord Rosebery was not Prime Minister in 1904, and that (late is evidently an...

(To THE EDITOR Of THE SPECTATOR."3 Snt,—With regard to the note which you append to the letter of my friend, Mr. P. C. Yorke, in your issue of April 15th, I beg to state that...

EPITAPH. HERE lies an old red clergyman. I grant him kindly, staunch, and bravo : Yet wise mon cannot sorrow long That so much folly is in the grave. L. A. C. STnoNa.

(To vas EDITOR or TILE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—Forther to the matter of village concerts, &c. How very important it is that these should be properly carried out, if only from an...

ardours of my youth Be shown a facet of the truth, Let me not use so little wit To make myself high priest of it, Believe it absolute, and blind My sight to that which others...

Arm subscriptions sent to us, great or small, will be acknow- ledged in our columns and at once sent on to the C.O.S. Cheques should be made out to " The Spectator " and crossed...

[To THE EDITOR. or TER " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—One day last week, after the small birds had disposed of their crumbs, my two'companions and I noticed through t he drawing-room...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—A recent experience of mine when speaking to the members of a Women's Institute makes me think that though an attempt has been made to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You advise the engineering employers to " try to shift the dispute away from abstract propositions about managerial rights and . . ....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—I remember well, when at Furness's School in Rugby, seeing a man with his feet in the stocks in the town, with a policeman standing...

writer's name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor truest not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection. Poems should be addressed to the...

THE ACADEMY. A BATTLE is being fought in the world of painters, and on one side are ranged the forces of Design and on the other those of Representation. Design uses the weapon...

- "WINDOWS : A •COMEDY " (FOR IDEALISTS AND OTHERS), BY JOHN GALSWORTHY, AT THE COURT THEATRE. IT is extraordinary what a difference exists between craftsman- ship and mind. I...

HERMAN MELVIIJE : MAR.TNER AND MYSTIC.* ANYTHING about Herman Melville and his books is sure to be interesting. But, though this is true, I cannot say that Mr. Weaver's Herman...

TATE GALLERY. • [The Cotman exhibition continues to attract all real art lovers and to give them an unprecedented opportunity of appreciating this master.] DIPLOMA GALLERY,...

MUSIC WORTH HEARING. May 6th.— QUEEN's HALL.—Pianoforte Recital by M. Sergei Rachmaninoff .. 3.0 [One of The best recital programmes we have seen, ranges from Mozart to...

. 8.0-2.15 [Mr. Galsworthy at his best. Sir James Barrie In equal quantities of farm and the macabre.] ST. JAMES'S.—The Bat . • • . • • -8.15-2.30 [Terrible I] THE " OLD...

Paopxssox BRANDER MATTHEWS, of Columbia Univessity, in collecting these essays on English, has produced a thoroughly delightful book. He is always easy and entertaining to read...

Mn. FRANK VANDERLIP, the well-known American banker, made a long European tour last autumn, and has embodied the results of his economic inquiries in an instructive book. It is...

possibly not agree with all the findings of Mr. Havelock Ellis in his new book, Lithe Essays of Love and Virtue,' they will almost certainly find themselves more, in sympathy...

Tim Nineteenth Century this month affords its readers pleasant relief by eschewing party politics, save in one article on " The Political Scene," by Colonel G. B. Hurst. Mr....

MR. BELL has reprinted his art criticism, which has appeared in various places, and'has made an entertaining volume, though the entertainment is not always such as the author...

Siecle, and its companion volume, La Question Biblique an XXe Sieele, did for the Roman Catholic body. The author has not M. Houtin's distinctive vein of humour—this made...

MR. MIDDLETON MURRY'S NOVEL.* Ma. MIDDLETON MURRY has written what is on the surface the story of a young man who leaves London lodgings and a rather • Ths Things We Are. By...

moving picture of peasant France in the grip of the feudal system, describing the fate of a whole village at the hands of a degenerate and absentee Mon- seigneur.—The Single...

[Notice in this Munn does not necessarily preclude subsequent review] The Graphio Arts. By Joseph Pennell. (The Scammon Lectures. Published by the University of Chicago Press....

in which the principal character is a genius are often both unconvincing and tedious, but an exception may be made for Katharine Burdekin's study of Anna Colquhoun, who becomes...

and Stoughton. 6s.)—No English scholar has done so much of late years to popularize the Scientia Scripturarum as the author of these lucid and illuminating lectures, which may...

1922 (3s. 6d. net), which is now the only pictorial record of the exhibition. It contains about two hundred well-executed reproductions of pictures and sculpture. The selection...

Macrae- Gibson. (Fabian Society. ls:)—This well-written pamphlet gives a lucid account of the national and departmental councils set up in' the Civil Service -and discusses the...

University Press. 14s. net.)—Most farmers now know that the dull brown dust which is a waste product of the steel furnace is a fertilizer of great value. Unfortunately, the...

Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain, by Mr. Reginald A. Smith (2s. 6c1.), for the benefit of visitors to the new Roman- British. room. Mr. Smith gives a compact history of...

A Trafalgar Ship for Bea Scouts, appeals for £20,000 to maintain the old ' Implacable' as a headquarters training centre forthe naval side of Sir Robert Baden-Pewell's excellent...

pamphlet entitled The Attempt to Smash the A.E.U. : Part of a General Attack. It is cleverly written, but as a reply to the case of the Engineering Employers' Federation it is...

2s.)— The parson's wife is an important, indeed indispensable, part of our Church organization, but she seldom appears in, ptint. This little. book shows, however, that she has...

6d. net.)—Mr. Warner has revised and partly rewritten his well- known book, which first appeared eleven years. ago. He has much to say about cricket since the War, and about the...

1922, incorporating the rules of the International Yacht Racing Association (Harrison, 10s.). The proceedings of the Association are appended, with a list of the regattas...

in Australia. (Angus and Robertson,. Sydney. £2 2s.)—The artist who is the subject of this book went to Australia as a young man and lived there for twenty-five years. We are...