1 DECEMBER 1906, page 18

If The Controversy Is Ultimately Fined Down To This Single

issue, we agree with the Daily Chronicle in thinking that a settlement may be secured by the adoption of the compromise which that journal has repeatedly urged,—viz., the......

The Week Closes With Somewhat Better Hopes For A Com-

promise on the Education Bill. In the Upper House on Thursday Lord Lansdowne announced the modifications of the Lords' amendments which he was prepared to advise. These were in......

An Interesting Debate Was Raised In The House Of Lords

on Wednesday by Lord Monkswell, who called attention to the Report of Sir Edward Ward's Committee on the civil employ- ment of ex-soldiers and sailors, and asked what steps were......

Mr. Balfour Was The Chief Guest At A Luncheon At

the Junior Constitutional Club on Wednesday, and spoke at length on the educational crisis. Dealing with the Lords' amendments to the Education Bill, he maintained that, so far......

The Debate In The Commons On The Plural Voting Bill

was chiefly noteworthy for the new clause proposed on Tuesday by Lord Robert Cecil, and the declaration made by Mr. Balfour in supporting it. The object of the clause is to......

We Greatly Regret That The Necessity Of Dealing At Such

length with the Report stage in the Lords prevents us from giving in detail any account of the deputations against the Bill which waited this week on the Archbishop of......

On Clause Iv.—" Extended Facilities "—the Lords Adhered...

mandatory form, and to the abolition of any distinction between urban and rural areas. They, however, struck out the bare majority, and substituted a majority of two-thirds,......

On The Whole, It Must Be Admitted That The Lords

showed no very great clerical bias during Thursday's debate, and that their efforts to meet the criticisms that have been made on the original amendments were perfectly genuine.......