25 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 2

The progress of the Local Government Bill is slow enough.

The Committee are still engaged on the second clause, and the discussions of the week have chiefly resulted in two changes. The first we understand to be the acquiescence of the Government in Mr. Heneage's amendment providing that when the population of a parish is not under one hundred, but under two hundred, the County Council may order a Parish Council to be established, but only with the consent of the parish meeting ; moreover, no parish with a population over one hundred is to be grouped with any other parish without the consent of the parish meeting. When the popula- tion of a parish is under a hundred, the County Council is to decide how it shall be represented.