Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

L ended June %.
THE BRITISH Completed
returns of the general elections show
the distribution Of the 6l5 seats in the
new House of Commons as follows:
Laborites, 289; Conservatives, 260;
Liberals, So; Independents, 4; National
lists Northern Ireland, 3; Prohibition
lists, l. The Independents include two
Independent Liberals and two Independ-
ent Conservatives.
On July Lord Amthill will lay the
foundation stone of the new Shake
speare Memorial Theater at Stratford-
on-Avon. The American Shakespeare
Foundation has contributed nearly
100000 toward construction and en-
dowment of the building.
A room in Houghton House near
Bedford, the which mansion was the
original of the house beautiful in
1.-The Pilgrims Progress" has been
bought up by group and presented to
the British nation. 1t is to be removed
to the Victoria Albert Museum at Ken
sington and there set up permanently.
1t is said to be the finest Jacobean
paneled interior in existence. Houghton
House was built about 1915 for Mary
Sydney, Countess of Pembroke and sister
of the incompatible Sir Philip Sydney,
the same lady whom Rare Ben Jonson
eulogiZed in immortal lines.
A manifesto issued by the Liberal
party Just before the recent general
elections contains the following inter-
esting statement:
(The Liberal party pledges itself ITO
accept naval parity with the United
States in spirit and letter. To work out
an agreement to limit and reduce naval
ornaments on the basis forwarded by
Hugh S. Gibson. American, at Geneva
To consider what changes should De
made in international law relating TO
neutral and belligerent rights at sea as
the result of ratification OF the cove
nant of the League Of Nations, the
BRYAN treaties, the Washington and
Pacific treaties and the pact Of Paris. "
Laborites are apt to regard the Kellogg
pact as ''the agreed basis Of new
international order"
Soon the R-l00 and R-101, greatest
of airships. will be making their trial
flights, on the rcsult of which the I'M
mediate future OF lighter-than-a craft
SO greatly depends. No, no, old Leo
Britannicus Is not asleep.
The General Assemblies of the Churcn
of Scotland and the United Free Church
of Scotland have voted for union Oh
those bodies as the Church OF Scot
| land; effective in october. Thus a
negotiation of 90 years Is crowned. IL
is announced that the new church Will
explore the proposals for a closer union
Of all the British Protestant Churches,
advanced many years ago by all Arch
| bishop OF Canterbury and known as~the
Lambeth proposals.
A minority of the United Free Church
refused to join the union and will main
| tain the old establishment.
With results as to only two seats still
unknown, returns of the recent general
| elections In the Union of South Africa
show the distribution Of seats in the
new Legislative Assembly Of that Domin-
| ion as follows: Nationalist 0he govern
ment party, headed by Hertzog), rs; the
South African party (headed by Gen.
| Smuts), 81; the Creswell Laborites. sup
porters of the government, S; the Ma
tional Council Laborites, opposed to the
government, 3: Independent. / I'M
known, q. The issues of the election
were exceedingly important, but very
! complicated. I hope to find space in
the near future for brief exposition
thereof.