Lord Leverhulme, In The Course Of An Interesting Address To
the shareholders of his company last week, sharply criticized the' Colonial Office for maintaining the export - duties on West African produce and especially the differential......
Artificial Interference With The Course Of Trade Has In This
case proved once again to. be disastrous. Lord Leverhulme told his shareholders, that. West African commerce was so depressed that, for the purposes of the balance-sheet, he had......
The London Ratepayers Last Week Took The Trouble For Once
to vote at the elections of poor-law- guardians and freed all but two of the unions from Socialist control. The Labour Party, profiting by the apathy of the electors, had gained......
Above All Things, Professor Dicey Was A Unionist, And His
influence on the Unionist controversy, and especially over the late Duke of Devonshire, was very great indeed. The present writer was throughout the. Unionist controversy in......
It Is- With Very Great Regret That We Record The
death of . Professor Dieey, who died at Oxford on. Friday, April 7th, in his eighty-eighth year. Professor Dicey was a well friend, and also a frequent contributor to the......
We Regret To Record The Death, On Sunday, Of Sir
Patrick Manson, the pioneer of the great medical discoveries which have revolutionized the economic and political problems of the tropics. Sir Patrick Manson was born in......
Nothing Final Yet Seems To Have Been Decided With Regard
to the representation of the City of London. We very- greatly hope that it may be possible for the Unionist Party to decide on a non-Party candidate and to. send to Parliament......
An Article In The Electrical Review Of March 24th. Describes
the alleged invention of a foolproof indestructible electric battery which does not deteriorate ! This battery, we are told, is the invention of an Englishman, and its makers......
The Older Generation Of Concert-goers Will Have Read With...
and regret of the death, last week,. of Madame Arabella Goddard, the most famous English pianist of the mid-Victorian era. She had retired as long ago as 1878, after thirty......
As We Go To Press (a Day Earlier Than Usual
owing to the Easter Holidays) the Irish news is possibly a little better. It is said, that Mr. Michael Collins and Mr. Arthur Griffith, and Mr. De Valera and Mr. Cathal Bruga......
Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 5 Per Cent.
Feb. 16, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Wednesday, 100 ; Thursday week, 99i ; a year ago, 86k.......