, 1910-12-17
KILOGRAMS.
81. CKOLX STATION.

ties is: Coalition two hundred aud ninety SIN,
Unionists two hundred aud forty, the Gov
elnment's net gain being one. The LibeEnls
have carried Newmarket and Cricklade,
Uuionists Torquay and a Protestant mid
Tyrone. The latter was Mr.. Redmond's no
minee, to d~isprove religious persecution un-
der Home Rule. Mr.. Lewis Hnrcourt's ma
iOrity was 1914 smaller than in January.
The Times says this is a wire-puIlers" cleo
ton, one among the many undesirable results
of the party system. TIL Daily Telegraph
remarks that Mr.. Redmond says Home Rule
means tolerance for all, thus taking a leaf out
of Mr.. O'Brien's book. The Standard says
that despite Mr.. Asquith's Albert Hall de-
claration, the swapping OF the House
of Lords with those pledged to its ru-
in Will not involve a crisis, and the Dali
ly Express emphasizes Mr.. Lloyd Georges
admission, that the returns are such
that the Government will be unable to
proceed with it's revolutionary descriptive
programme, and that he has impruiently
admitted it would be fatal to the Govern
ment'5 cause to trust the people.
The Significance of the foregoing is the
general recognition that the election will not
be followed by anything extreme.
MIR. Lloyd George, speaking 1T Newtown,
said Home Rule would not give the CNtho-
lies control over religion in Ireland, neither
Catholicism nor Protest. ntism will be estab-
Iished.
Mr.. Balfour, in a speech at hartford, de-
nOunced the Governments scheme to SNUG
gle through Home Rule after abolishing the
power of the Lords. The country, he declared,
will not acquiesce in the establishment of
Home Rule by packing the House of Lords
after an election upon their veto. 1t was "a
FOOLS Paradise to hope the country will &C
cept a single chamber government. He did
not admit that even a Radical majority were
able to enact q Veto bill, but even its enact
ment would not end the matter; we are not
going to sit down under a hastily cooked up
bill thrown at the heads of Parliament and the
Sovereign. Whatever happens, this is not going
to be a permanent constitution under which
Englishmen would live hereafter No Govern
ment could make their decisions final; their
successors sometime would have to express,
different views,an mold the Lords along the
lines expressed by the Marquis of Lans-
downe and other Uniouists. 1t was difficult
to see how Home Rule once given could be
withdrawn; therefore the people would want
to know more before accepting the pending
proposals. In conclusion he appealed for the
maintenance of the constitution, which hither-
to had been the envy of the civilized world.
In the first test match Australia v. South
Africa, Australia scored 528, then heavy rain
followed. South Africa in their first innings
scored ia. On Monday there was no play,
and yesterday only a few minutes; today
South Africa closed their second innings for
240, Australia thus won by an innings and
ia runs.
AS a result Of the dissatisfaction with
Australia's procedure regarding the Davis
Cup competition, the Tennis Association has
made overtures to the United States for the
establishment of games to be played alter
nately in each country, beginning with the
United States.
A Stockholm despatch says the Nobel
Prize Committee of the Storthing has
awarded the peace prize to the Perma-
nent Peace Bureau at Berne.
st. Petersburg dispatches state that the
Car is emerging from his retirement since
the Russo-Japanese war, and has presided
at several banquets and held a gala review
OF Cossacks his demeanor is more reliant.
All parties III the Douma have united in
an Interpolation regarding deaths attributed
to logging of political prisoners. 1t is al
legged that the Government is thus taking