, 1913-01-18

considered their policy calamitous. Mr.. Be-
mar Law and Lord Lansdowne IRE still con-
terring, aud their expected decision has not
been announced.
The House of Commons has concluded the
report stage of the Home Rule bill, and two
days are allowed for the third reading. 1t
viii reach the House of Lords on Thursday
aud the Duke of Deyonshire will move its
rejection on Monday. The Governments
amendment, fixing the date for the meeting
of the Irish Parliament within a year after
the passage of the bill, was adopted by 2l3
votes to 145, over Mr.. Timothy Healy's
wrathful declaration that the interval al
lowed an opportunity for the Governments
defeat, resulting in the disappearance of
Home Rule through a trapdoor, leaving
merely Il puff of smoke.
The Franchise bill will reach the commit
tee stage next week. Mrs. Pankhurst has
declared there will be no more Suffragette
outrages until the last amendment is lost,
and then there will be more than heretofore.
The perpetrators of the outrages believe
their threats produced the Governments
reconsideration of its refusal to receive n
Sutfragette delegation in the House of Com
mons, Mr.. AsQuith having deputed Mr..
Lloyd George to introduce them and Sir
Edward Grey will probably accompany the
delegation.
The Murconi Agreement Investigation
Committee rend to Mr.. Samuel It's proposed
interim report, he approved the immediate
purchase of sites for the Imperial All Red
scheme, but disupproved of the appointment
of a technical committee, on account
of the delay through a battle between
experts. Sir George Marks objected to
the charge of sixty thousand pounds for
each station rs excessive, us als5 the
Royalty of ten per cent, and declared it was
unprecedented to pay for expired patents.
He also accused one member of the Com
mittee of acting more like Il counsel for
Mr.. Marconi, than an impartial iHvesti-
gator.
The Midland Railway Company's express
for Leicester colnded Will an accommodate
tion train for WalsaIl, near Bromford Bridge,
two persons being killed and forty injured.
Messrs. Macdonald and England, ~aviators
for Vickers Limited, fell into the Thames
upon a trial flight; the machine exploded rs
it struck the water and both were killed.
The war situation is maturing along the
lines telegraphed yesterday, The Allies
have informed Sir Edward Grey that they
were authorized to breuk the atmistice unless
Turkey accepted their terms, while Turkey
apparently thinks that war is the best method
of compelling the Powers to intervene.
Jamnica, 15th-H. NJ. S. "Aeolus" arrived
Port Royal from Santiago de Cuba.
Barbados, 18th German cruiser ~ Gloria
Louise" goes Dominica about / p. N.
London, Jan. l6th-Mr. W. Middleton
Campbell, Chairman of the West India Com
mittee, sailed for Demerara yesterday by
Royal Mail Steamer "MagdaIenn".
Dispatches from Constantiuople state that
the Grand Council has adjourned while
awaiting the note from the Powers. The
Allies have postponed hostilities and are
awaiting Turkeys reply TO the Powers. Tur-
key believes she could have compromised
with the Allies, if the Powers had not en-
colraged them by their support, and she is in
cIned towards war, since no Ministry could
survive conceding the demands made by the
A lies.
Mr.. Bonnr Law, answering the memorial
from the Unionists, says he thinks it would
be more agreeable and better Tor the party
that it's alteration of policy should be en-
trusted to other leaders, nevertheless, he
and Lord Lansdowne feel it to be tier duty
TO comply with The representation made
by the memorialists, that q change of
leadership would be fatal to the party and
the country. They therefore retain the lead
ershin althounh immortal preference regard