NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Lords' debate, dealt with in detail on the next pages, which was expected to end on Thursday, has been ad- journed till Monday ; but it seems certain that the vote will be taken on Tuesday. When the postponement of the division was first announced, hopes were entertained in some quarters that this fact was due to renewed efforts for a compromise, and that the Saturday4o-Monday interval might be used by the friends of peace to come to an arrangement such as that which we supported last week. This proposal was that the House of Lords should pass the Finance Bill on the understanding (1) that such passing was provisional and tentative in its character, (2) that a Dissolution should take place at the earliest possible moment in January, and (3) that if the result of the appeal to the electors was to condemn the Budget, it should be clearly understood that the Unionists would be entitled to repeal at once the objectionable parts of the Finance Act. We fear, however, that these hopes are doomed to disappointment, and that Tuesday will see the final rejection of the measure.
