The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09

desire to alleviate the burdens of the Indian people,"
 It has been more than once pointed out the very small number of persons who own between them the London Daily Press. I have no doubt that they are very estimable persons. but they are not gentlemen, who, If they signed political memorial to the people of England, would find their advice treated with more respect than that of the three worthy tailors of Tooley street This monopoly Is mainly due to the heavy costs and risks involved tn a daily metropolitan paper. It is at present a commercial business like any other. Its success de- bends mainly upon the amount that can be obtained from advertisements, and the leading articles are of no more value than the expressions of the opinions of a dozen or so gentlemen. probably less versed in politics than most other people.
 
 A large number of the inhabitants of British Guiana have forwarded memo rial to Mir. Chamberlain protesting against their being taxed to provide coolies for sugar planters. At present 130,00O persons of East Indian origin and descent are comprised in the total popu- lation of the colony, which is far in ex- cess of the requirements of the planters
 
 order to obtain cheap labor, for they are cheaper than native labor. During the year 1902 and 1908 one-third of the entire cost of this Oriental immigration was contributed out of the colonial revenues In view of the possibility of this being deemed a bounty on sugar, the govern ment of British Guiana has entered into an arrangement by which henceforward the community is to pay the entire cost of the medical service, the immigration de- partment in the colony, the office of the emigration agent at Calcutta, and the pensions of the retired officers of the immigration department, in consideration of the sugar planters foregoing the di- rect bounty-the amount of public money that they obtain by this arrangement be- ing about the same as previously, whilst the planters are still to continue.
 
 The success of the interchange of visits between the peoples of Great Britain and France, in the persons of King Edward VII. and President Loubet. will bring to mind suggestion that has already been made in one of the letters of this se- ries. Were the king to visit the United States, and were the visit to be returned by President Roosevelt, It is certain that much would be done to bind the Ameri- can people and the English people to- gether as they never have been before. His majesty has adopted the role of con- cillator-in-chief, and is fast making up quarrels which might in time have had disastrous results. He Is a most experi- enced man of the world, and no one knows better than he does that the whole American nation Is not so well dis posed towards Great Britain as are the members of the -Four Hundred" Such a visit to the United States, and the en- thusiastic reception which the president 4.s- would affect almost all classes in Amer lea. An absence of three weeks would be sufficient to cross the Atlantic, pay hurried visit to the most important cen- tres, and return to England.
 
 Under the oppressive and pernicious government of Mir. Kruger vast fortunes were made in South Africa, and the South African market was alive with business. Our own just rule has been established for over year, and we hear of no large sums being made in the newly acquired provinces, the South Af- rcan market is little better than dead, and Johannesburg and Rhodesia are sell dom mentioned. It is earnestly to be hoped that Lord Salsburys assurance that we wished for no gold may not have been taken seriously.
 An eminent London doctor whose ner- vous system had suffered severely through overwork, recently took a trip from Staines to Oxford having himself lowed all the way. He Is now advising every patient whose nerves are unstrung to undergo 'the towing cure" The quiet there is in a boat which Is being slowly lowed, the gentle ripple which follows the boat. and the soothing motion, to- gether with the fresh air, are said to have a wonderful effect upon the nerves. The Gordon Bennett race WAS certainly