6 MAY 1911, Page 2

It is, we fear, useless to reiterate what we have

said before in condemnation of the Government's refusal to agree to any compromise, and of their cynical avowal that they are estab- lishing Single-Chamber government in order to make it pos- sible to carry Home Rule. We may note, however, a curious suggestion in the Political Notes in the Times of Thursday, to the effect that the Government may possibly allow Lord Lansdowne's Bill for reforming the House of Lords to pass, subject, of course, to the provisions of the Veto Bill. In that way the promises of the Preamble would be kept, or appear to be kept, and yet we should be completely under Single- Chamber rule. Time will show whether there is any founda- tion for the rumour.