... ) An eanest plea for bi-metallisrm is put in bV Lord Aldenhain in The National Reviewv under The Empire and the Gold Standard. He scouts the piti- ful suggestion that the cormmercial suprernaoy of Great Britain is due to the adoption of a particular ...

... GOLD ?? FOR INDIA.-A report has ,appeared to the effect that the Government of India con, templates the introduotion of a gold standard, with, a view to obviate the losses occasioned by the c'ontinual filuctuations in the value of silver. With regard to this~ ...

... favolr cof the Republican platform and candidates. Chicago, &Sturday (Reuter).-The Democratic leaders in favour of the gold standard hare decided upon holding a Convention here on or about September 1st.. A quaint rsqtom -was observed at Ripon on Saturday ...

... the values of gold and sil-er, nor that the fall is due to any failure in the supply of gold, or to any defect in our gold standard. The conclusion the writer comes to is that a remedy for this divergence of the standards is to lie sought in another ...

... that can be compared in terms of gold, and for tsiis reaseon we see that all civillsed States that have not already a gold standard arc endeavoorieg to acquire i-hat standard. A few yeazs ago the bi-mr-tillieste dsturbedl people's minds by assert-i-g ...

... those of the writer, and must seek for iuch elsewboere. It must. indeed, be acknowledged that many upholders of the single gold standard have not alway-s realised the im- portance of facts established by bi-metallists-e.g.. that during The last twenty years ...

... of alloyed metal which was standard or seterling' gold and silver at *different times. For the last two centuries the gold standard has never varied; wfhile the silver standard has remained unaltered for thres centuries. The small qoantity of silver and ...