25 DECEMBER 1909, page 2

On The Same Evening Lord Milner Spoke At Huddersfield. After

ridiculing the suggestion that popular government was in danger from the House of Lords, he declared that he would not let himself be drawn into a discussion of the Constitu-......

Last Saturday Baron Sonnino Described The Main Proposals...

new Italian Cabinet to the Chamber. The programme will not be explained in detail till after the Christmas holidays. The Times correspondent says that the Prime Minister laid......

The Portuguese Prime Minister, Senhor Weneeslau De Lima,...

Saturday. This is the fourth Govern- ment which has fallen during the present reign. The Prime Minister informed the King that he could no longer tolerate the bitter hostility......

The Official Announcement, Which Had Been For Some Time...

was made on Wednesday that Mr. Herbert Gladstone had been appointed to the new Post of Governor- General of South Africa. Mr. Gladstone has been in Parlia- ment as one of the......

Dealing With The Opponents Of The Budget, Mr. Burns Observed

that "even a Duke should be handled with some degree of pitiful compassion," and that the Lords were "always on the side of dogma and drink." The only reason for their rejecting......

On Tuesday Mr. Asquith Delivered Speeches In Liverpool...

At Liverpool he warmly defended the measures taken by the Government for national defence. " I do not believe," he said, " that ever since the close of the great war nearly a......

In The Course Of A Speech At North Sunderland On

Monday Sir Edward Grey raised the point that it was unfair that the House of Lords should have the power of forcing a Dis- solution without running any risk that its own Members......

Lord Cromer In A Speech At Sheffield On Friday Week

gave his reasons for asking Unionist Free-traders to support Unionist candidates irrespective of their views on the Fiscal question. His first reason was that national defence......

Mr. John Burns Broke His Long Silence On Friday, The

17th, when he addressed his constituents at great length. The Parliament whose existence bad been arbitrarily terminated by the usurpation of the Peers would be known as " the......