16 MAY 1914, page 2

We Have Dealt Elsewhere So Fully With The Irish Situation

that we shall do no more here than chronicle the movement amongst a section of Liberals which boa been pompously described as a Liberal" revolt" On Thursday a deputation of the......

Mr. G. H. Roberts, The Labour Member For Norwich, Opposed

the measure as "unwarrantably interfering with the just liberties of a great class of deserving citizens," maintain- ing that the real impulse behind the Bill was prohibition.......

On Tuesday In The Commons Mr. Asquith Made An Important

statement of his intentions. He moved to dispense with the Committee stages of the Home Rule, Welsh Church, and Plural Voting Bills. He abandoned all notion of amend- ing the......

In The Commons Yesterday Week Mr. T. Davies Moved The

second reading of the Sunday Closing Bill, which sought to reduce the hours of sale of intoxicants to four in London and three outside, to increase the minimum distance for the......

In The House Of Commons On Thursday The Government Had

an unpleasant reminder of the precarious nature of their position. There was under discussion the. Prime Minister's motion to suspend the eleven o'clock rule in regard to the......

Mr. Bonar Law Has Been Blamed For Being Unsympathetic, But,

in our opinion, most unfairly. The operative part of his speech shows that he has no sort of intention of wrecking an Exclusion settlement, provided, of course, that it Will do......

We Are Glad To See That The British Weekly Stands

firmly to its previous declaration on the subject of the time-limit. That declaration has been ignored by most of the Liberal Press, but the Star sought to discount it as......

Speaking At Auckland, New Zealand, On Tuesday, Sir Ian...

said that Australia and New Zealand were taking extraordinary precautions for defence, because distances were being shortened every day, and the Pacific was "the meeting.......

Sir Thomas Whittaker Contributes An Interesting Footnote...

history of the Bill in a letter to the Westminster Gazette, which had described the proposals as " drastic," and owned to feeling no regret at the rejection of the second......

On Monday In The House Of Commons Mr. Lloyd George

announced two changes in the Budget. The tax on unearned incomes between £300 and £500, instead of being raised from Is. 2d. to ls. 4d., is to remain at Is. 2d.; and on unearned......