10 AUGUST 1901, Page 3

In the House of Commons on Thursday the new rule

was

applied by classes to votes of various kinds in the civil, naval, and military . administration, amounting in all to £67,746,833. - Though there was a certain amount of protest from the Irish Members (who tried unsuccessfully to make Mr. Lowther, the Chairman of Committees, read out a quantity of unnecessary verbiage) and a good deal of childish obstruction generally, the House as a whole was satisfied.