, 1910-12-10

seats, tu6S WOuN NV P4ON' 49, 49,
proposals.
TIp to Yesterday afternoon, upon the re-
turn of the RedmOndites ~unopposed, the
Coalition numbered one hundred and thirty
one, Uniouists one hundred and twenty eight.
H A. Franklin, the male Sutfragist who
assaulted Mr.. Churchill in the train when re-
turning from Bradford, has been sentenced
to SIX weeks Imprisonment.
Yesterday morning the second section OF a
business mems train on the London and
North Western Railway from Nattord ran
into the first section at WIllesden Junction,
telescoping half a dozen carriages; fifty per-
Sons were injured, many WIN fractured SA'iIs'
and one was killed,
Mr.. Brooks statue Of the late Sir Henry
Irving, erected behind the National Gallery
in Charing Cross road, has been unveiled by
Sir. John Hare.
Ottawa, Dec 7th.-Iu the House of Com
mons, Sil Wilfrid Lqurier, replying to MIR.
Sproule. the Supreme Grand Master OF
Orngemen, said the Hon. Desire Girou-
ard had not consulted the Government with
regard to his alleged declaration of allegl-
auce to Cardinal NHnuteIl during the Eucha
ristic Congress, aud the word "homlgo'
should he translated as mere respects. MIR.
Grouayd had not acted as Governor General
at that time. NJ. Marcel, the Deputy speaker,
he added. WI, ROBBED as Il lnagustrate when he
marched in the EucharistIc procession, and
Ind not carried the mace. Sir Frederick
Borden, answering another question, sad that
precedents allowed the sixty fifth regiment
to act rs guard OF honour to the host
md accent the invitations to appear in
uniform their parade was not ordered.
The Militia Council is considering sending
a representative contingent to London Tor
the coronation, consisting OF two hundred
men drafted from every arm Of the service
of each province, incIuling the North West
mounted police.
Washington, Dec. 7th-President Taft's
message to Congress is reassuripg. The
KEYNOTE of its concluding sentences is that
Government activities are best directed
toward excellence in the administration of
existing laws, without new legislation, and
STRENGTHENING the confidence of capital in
domestic investments.
Dominica, CHI. S. cruiser Dixie and
torpedo hotllu leaves 6 P. m. for St. Kits.
ST. Kits. Thu. S. cruiser Dixie and
torpedo fotilla arrived 6 Il. m.
london, Dec. Sth.-Including Tuesdays
complete polls the Liberals have secured one
hundred aud six seats, the Lubourltes twenty
and Nationalists twenty six, the total coali-
ton number being one above that from the
same constituencies before. The Unionists
have one hundred and forty seven; then pre-
vious gains have been annuiied by changes
sensational in the polling, which previously
had been SO close.
The Unonists have gained Saint HeIen's,
the Liberals West Southwark, Burnley and
Coventry and the Labourites Woolwich and
Whitehavcn. The Unionists have lost both
seats for Sutherland to Mr.. Greenwood, LII
beral. and Mr.. Gladstone, Labourlte. MIR.
Burns's majority at Batter8en has been IN
creased to 1892.
1t is almost q dead heat, with forty five
per cent of the polling over. Among the
reasons suggested for this is that the
moral effect of the fact Of the Union
lists being unable to obtain a majority
is inducing voters to try to make the Llber-
ais independent Of the Nationalist. The
Unionists, however, retain the hope OF a
better showing in the counties.
Consols have partially regained from their
relapse to seventy-eight and a half, the new
minimum for eighty years.
The newspapers are surprised at the
smallness of the response to their counsels,
indiratino that voters cling to parties, de-