5 AUGUST 1922, Page 3

-'Before ithe- debate -came on Sir William Ydge, the Coalition

Liberal Member for Bolton, resigned his position as a Govern- ment Whip so that he might vote against the fabric glove duty. His colleague, the Welsh Liberar Whip, was defeated in seeking re-election at Pontypridd ; the Junior Lordship of the Treasury assigned to the Scottish Liberal Whip has not yet been filled. The Coalition Liberals cannot be in a very happy frame of mind just now. They find satisfaction, perhaps, in the thought that the Unionists who still cling to the Prime Minister are equally doubtful and discontented.