1 JANUARY 1921, Page 11

Parliament was prorogued on Thursday, December 23rd, to February 15th.

The House of Commons sat through Wednesday night to Thursday afternoon, debating the Lords' amendments to the Agriculture Bill, to which a few Inde- pendent Liberals and Mr. Devlin offered a strenuous resistance for tactical purposes. In the end most of the Lords' amend- mente were accepted by the House, and the Bill, shorn of some of the arbitrary powers conferred on committees and officials, became law on Thursday night, together with the Government: of Ireland Bill and the Dyestuffs (Import Regulation) Bill.