12 SEPTEMBER 1896, page 8

Political Rancour.

I T is,we hope, satisfactory to most of us to read of Mr. Balfour's beginning his long vacation by first paying a short visit to Mr. Gladstcne at Hawarden, and then taking Mr.......

New Taxes On The Continent. T He Adoption By M. Dupuy

of the proposal to establish a State monopoly of spirits as a source of revenue may turn out to be an important event in the history of taxation, and certainly deserves the......