The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-23
HARSH CRITICISM OF THE CORONATION Says Sacrilege Committed
 At the Abbey REFORM MAY COME Scottish Emigration Still Shows
REFORM MAY COME
Scottish Emigration Still Shows Alarming Increase-Famous Tibetan Explorer Injured in
 Automobile Accident
By PAUL LAMBETH

By PAUL LAMBETH
 London. July 22.-dSpecial )-Andrew Carnegie Is not the only man in the United Kingdom who looks upon the coronation ceremonies with a feeling of contempt.
 Here, for instance, is the noted icon oclast Kier Hardie. M. P. radical labor member, who in making a speech to the striking holders of Dowlais, used some pretty plain language in expressing his | opinion of the affair
 He said those who has seen the cor onation, had described it as a sacrilegi- ous comedy. The abbey itself was got up as a music hall. and the crowd gath cred there spent part of the time in the loyal occupation of munching sand wiches and drinking Scotch whisky. He had very fashioned rever- ence for building like Westminster abbey, and he felt his gorge rise and protest against such a venerable build ing being converted into a sort of glori- fled music hall or sanctified pot-house.
 There is no doubt that the levity dis played in the rehearsals at the abbey and during the long wait on the day of the coronation has created a good deal of disgust
 Even conservative men are seriously discussing the advisability of cutting out many of the medieval ceremonies of the coronation, which might have had meaning In feudal times but in these days are rediculous and tend to excite nd bar- ho, The trouble in making these changes which it is admitted are advisable is in finding the necessary authority. It is possible King George will take the matter in hand and bring about a re- form.
 Scottish immigration continues to in crease. In the month of May SS21 peo- pie of Scottish nationality left the Uni ted Kingdom for places out of Europe, compared with 54o3 in the correspond ing month last year. For the five months of the year the number are 2S.- | 331, as against 2o,4o4. Of the total 1 British North America got 21 LOFT, Aus tralia 37S9 British South Africa TIT, | New Zealand 643. India Qncluding Cey- | lon) 549 other British colonies and l possessions, etc. During the month of May the total number of British sub jects who left the United Kingdom for places out of Europe was 37,341, being an increase of 10.476 on the correspond ing month of last year. Of this number 2S,s23 went to British North America, 306 to India and 516 to other British | possessions. The number who went to the United States was 13,153. For the | five months of this year, ending May a grand total of 133,513 British subjects went to parts of the empire. or an in- nEn af No .-s.. .l in 1910.
 I Prospects of compromise over the Westminster parliament bill seem ex- ceedingly dim. though the tories keep up din of prophecy and appeal. In ministerial circles absolute incredulity is expressed when suggestions are made that George will decline to go be- yond the creation of 150 peers as an object lesson to the recalcitrant second chamber"
 Men close to the prime minister scout the notion that the King will balk at 800 if necessary. They predict that he will touch the high-water mark of consttutionalism by deferring fully to the advice of the responsible head of the peoples house."
 No doubt if the government would yield on the point of home rule the pas sage of the bill would be greatly facil- | itated; but home rule Is precisely the issue, in respect to which Mir Asquith is at the mercy of John Redmond. | Occasionally a warning note Is heard in radical quarters. Recently a radical Journal, urging the groups of the ooalt- ton to draw closer together. now that Lord Lansdowns amendment to the par liament bill has defined the issue, says that if the coalition breaks down under the strain of the 1irsh demands, the
 unionlsts are sure of being returned to power with a big majority.
 Then, according to the same authority. the Lansdowne scheme for reconstructing the lords would be brought forward. damned through and made the tool to smash the parliamentary bill and give the new second chamber the ancient priyi- ieges ot the lords It prefesses to know that such is Lansdowne's ulterior pur. pose"
 Col. Sir Francis Youngf1usband, the ex- plorer who conducted the British mission to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1904, has been serious,v injured in motor accident in Rel gium. He was walking along road two miles from Spa when he was run down bv a motor car. The car knocked him down and passed over both legs causing a compound fracture of one and seriously injuring the other The limbs were nu, in splints, but owing to the serious na- ture of the accident 1t was subsequently found necessary to remove him to Yer viers, where he remains under the care of two surgeons at the St. Elizabeth sana- | torium.
 l Two very human stories, one concern ing the 6o00-mile journey of a man to see his dying mother, and the other the re- turn from Canada of lad who had a vision of his father calling him back to England, have just been reported. The first case came before the Truro magis- trates. A South African, named George Lewis, who claimed to have carried dis patches from Rorke's Drift and to havy served in several campaigns, came before the bench charged with window breaking. He came to England from Africa last De- cember, the magistrates were told, to see his mother, Truro woman living ar lford, Essex. who was dangerously ill. He arrived three days after her death, and then went to some friends in Surrey. where he lost all his money.
 Since then, said the police. he had been visiting people whom he knew in South Africa in the hope of getting the money to pay his passage back. The police added that he served in the Basuto and Mata- bele campaigns, and during the South African war. being a burgher, he was called up under Cronje, but deserted with six others and poined the British force For, three days he had nothing to eat and broke windows at Truro then he gave shimself up. He was ordered to pay $1.25 costs, and the damage $50, or un-