17 AUGUST 1907, Page 2

The House of Lords was occupied with the Evicted Tenants

Bill on Monday, and it then seemed as if no compromising with the Commons would be possible. When, however, the Report stage was reached on Thursday night, it was evident that an agreement had been come to, and that while the Government were prepared to yield in the matter of the right

- of appeal, and the placing of a limit both as to the time and the number of tenants to be dealt with, the Lords would not insist on anything that would wreck the measure as a whole. Though there are many aspects of the Bill which are open to strong objection, the Lords would have been ill-advised to have caused its abandonment.