NEWS OF THE WEEK.
APASSIONATE and disorderly scene took place in the House of Commons on Thursday afternoon. At question time the Prime Minister announced that it was the intention of the Government that the Amending Bill should be introduced not in the House of Commons but in the House of Lords. Pressed to explain "before Whitsuntide" what the nature of the amendments would be—a most reasonable request—Mr. Asquith declared that it was contrary to all Parliamentary precedent to anticipate the statement which would be made in the Lords by a previous statement in the Commons. The feeling produced in the Unionist Party by this " tricky " announcement was exceedingly bitter, and the policy of secrecy was resented even by a section of the Prime Minister's own followers.
