5 FEBRUARY 1910, page 1

The First Fact That 'strikes One In These Figures Is

that the ' present Government can only command a majority of the House if it can count upon the support of the Labour Members and the Nationalists. How far is it able to do......

The Best Way Of Understanding The Attitude Of The Group

. of ten Nationalists led by Mr. William O'Brien and Mr. Healy ; is to take their own account of their aims and objects. Here is what the Cork Accent, their official organ, says......

We Venture To Say, Indeed, That At Least Twenty...

know that if they cannot show independence of the Liberals and make some answer to the charge of sub- serviency, they will greatly endanger their seats, and in all probability......

We Must Next Ask What Amount Of Reliance For Working

majorities can be placed upon the Labour group. The answer is hardly more satisfactory from the " Liberal point of view. The Labour Leader, the organ of the Labour Party, deals......

If The Figures Of The General Election Are Analysed, Not

with a view to determining what support the Government will have in the House of Commons, but as a test of the feeling in the country about the Budget, the result is not a......

News Of The Week • The General Election Of 1910

has passed into history. • It is true that the 'contests in the Scottish 'Universities . and in Orkney and Shetland are still undecided, but there i seems to be no doubt that......

No Doubt A Group Of Ten Is Not A Very

large group ; but the importance of the Independent Nationalists is not to be reckoned by mere numbers, but by their power of influencing the bigger group. We venture to say......

We May Note In Regard To These Threats That, Even

if the majority of the Cabinet could be induced to take what Americans would .call "the shirt-sleeve" view of bow the problem of the House of Lords should be approached, the......

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