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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

pOLITICAL interest at home revolves round the Paisley by-election, with all its implications for the future of the parties. We have written elsewhere on this subject, expressing our hope that Mr. Asquith will be elected, as there is great need just now for so accomplished a Parliamentarian in the House of Commons. We should have written otherwise if we thought there were any chance of Mr. Asquith rebuilding his small political party so successfully that he could make a bid for power. No Government ever behaves fairly to the country, or even does justice to itself, when the balance in the House is too lopsided through the absence of well-organized opposition. We want to see Mr. Asquith returned to render a special and immediate service.

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