... on to speak of the Tories were going to hand over their liberty to the Peers. (Hear, bear.) They objected to the Government filling the cup as they (sailed it and Home Rule, they ought to have gone to the country on Rule, on the Evicted Tenants' Bill ...

... SPEAKS. It is stated that the reply of the Tr.tnsvaal Government to the lest British despotelies has been sent off from Pretoria, and that it is to the effect that the South African Republic sirictly adheres to the London Convention of ISM, and aviie ...

... SPEAKING LAST YEAR WE RECEIVED £9,615,590 in Premiums from ORDINARY BRANCH Policyholders being L 248,527 more than in 14921, £14,386,588 in Premiums from INDUSTRIAL BRANCH Palicyholders being £388,196 more than in 1921, agd £815,704 in Premiums for FIRE ...

... PUBLIC SPEAKING. In University and .Historical Aclre.ses (Hammitt:int the Right Hon. James Bryce gives some admirable hint• to speakers and writers. Here are • few of them : Always have ~nothing to say. The man who is known nevi r to speak unless he ...

... ACTIONS SPEAK . . . THIS has been an important week for the Allies. Last week, much was said in and out of Parliament regarding measures for strengthening the Allied blockade of Germany and the work of the Ministry of Economic Warfare in preventing Germany ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING. The Colonial Secretary went on to criticise t', Transvaal l'olit;eal Assneiation, and referred in it nli'nl terms to '.11.. speech. Ile it..l tint think that either of the in Smolt A friea care to lepla-e Donning-Oren rule In' Park•lanc ...

... SPEAK THE TRUTH .A.I\TD to the first we should say, By all means do so, speak the truth, but as to shaming the devil, we don't think it can be done. He's such an old arch-villain we don't think be's any mire of shame left. We never thought very well ...

... PLAIN SPEAKING MARCH, the month famed for winds, mad-hatters and local authorities preparing their yearly financial budgets. One reads with mixed feelings the various howls hurled against the inane spending proclivities of local authorities throughout ...

... ONLY SPEAKING FRENCH. At Dow-street Pollee-court, before Mt. Marsham, Jessie Allsopp, formerly an actress, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Leicester-square. Priaon(r promised to go away into the country if the magistrate would diselisrgs ...

... MUSIC AND PUBLIC SPEAKING. Sir Walter Parrett, the Master of the King's Music and organist of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, made a vigorous attack on modern hymn music in an address which he delivered at the Conference of Teachers at the Holborn Restaurant ...

... God is Speaking to us through these troublons times. lit is speaking to us through repeated earthquakes and terrific hurricanes, through droughts in some places, and fl )(ids in others, through plagues and pestilence', wars and rumours of wars. And He ...

... SPEAKING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. In a short time an Englishman will be able to pick up the ordinary telephone in Lis house and speak to a friend in New Nork. This will probably cost him .C 5. It will be possible when the long-distance wireless station of ...