News of the Week The Defeat of the Government O N
Tuesday, the Government were defeated by a majority of eight on the levy proposal in the Coal Mines Bill. The levy was by no essential to the Bill, having been put in not so much because the Government wished it as because some of the coalowners demanded it. This was precisely one of those cases in which a MinoritY Government ought not to fly into a huff, but ought to consent in good part to give-and-take, which is not only unavoidable, but is actually desirable in any House whose- work resembles that of a Council of State. .We can well believe that secretly the GOvernment were not sorry to be quit of the levy, but it was necessary for them to defend it, and the loSs of a position which they had de- clared their intention of retaining has naturally caused. son-it Sense.--01 : _
