1 JULY 1916, Page 10

Lord Selbornc has resigned his place in the Cabinet, and

in the House of Lords on Tuesday he briefly explained his reasons. Although ke recognized that Mr. Lloyd George was necessarily entrusted with krge powers, he bad never understood that he was acting as a plenipotentiary. He himself was taken by surprise when he learned in the Recess that it was proposed to apply an amended Home Rule Act during the war. He had believed, on the information he had leceived, that there would be no attempt to bring the modified Act, excluding the six counties, into force till after the war. In his opinion, the present proposal to attempt a Constitutional change of vast magnitude during the war, and while Ireland was in an extremely disturbed state, was the most perilous course the Government could choose.