13 MAY 1922, Page 3

At the Caxton Hall on Tuesday the Duke of Northumberland

presided over a " Conservative rally." The Duke of North- umberland denied Sir Robert Home's expression of belief that there were " only insignificant and temporary differences " between the Coalition and the Die-Hards. He declared that the differences were fundamental. It was not merely that Conservative principles were being thrown to the winds ; the Government had abandoned the elementary principles on which civilized Government is based. Sir Henry Wilson said that he had supported Mr. Lloyd George during the War because Mr. Lloyd George was then fighting the enemies of his country, but he had observed that since the War the Prime Minister and his colleagues were " increasingly inclined to work with the King's enemies."