15 SEPTEMBER 1906, page 3

The Extracts Which The Times Prints Every Day From Its

columns of a hundred years ago are always good reading, but perhaps none has been more interesting from a literary point of view than that of Tuesday. It is dated Septem- ber......

. The Congress Discussed On Wednesday The Question Of...

Trade. The Congress of the Chambers of Com- merce of the Empire in July passed a resolution in favour of it, but Wednesday's gathering took a different line. It was admitted on......

A Hundred Years Ago Last Thursday Died Charles James Fox.

In spite of the fact that Mr. Fox charmed all his con- temporaries, irrespective of their political views, and that at his death Wordsworth and Scott bewailed a great English-......

Though It Militates So Strongly Against Its Demand For A

Protective tariff as necessary to preserve British trade and commerce, we note that the Daily Mail has the candour to admit that the condition of the home trade is at the......

The Spectator Experimental Company Was Disbanded At...

on the completion of its six months' training. We have dealt with the whole subject elsewhere, and will only say here that we trust in about a fortnight's time to be able to......

The Chairman Of The Associated Chambers Of Commerce, Sir W.

H. Holland, speaking at the annual meeting at Bristol on Tuesday, told the same tale as the statistics. There were industries, he declared, and important ones, which had been......

The Standard Of Thursday Makes A Most Interesting Sugges-...

and one which we sincerely trust will take practical shape. It is that owners of motor-boats, craft which we excel in building, and which are now becoming the instruments of a......

Last Saturday The First Eight-oared Race Between In...

an English University took place over the Putney to Mortlake course, when a Harvard crew was opposed by Cambridge. The weather was perfect, and the race was witnessed by a......

Bank Rate, 4 Percent., Changed From 31 Per Cent. Sept.

13th. Consols (21) were on Friday 86—on Friday week 86i.......