In the House of Commons on Thursday evening the Government
tabled their Resolutions for closuring the Educa- tion Bill by compartments. Part IL of the Bill will be dropped altogether. Seventeen days are to be allotted to the remainder, thirteen of them being distributed over the various clauses, three days given to the Report, and one day to the third reading. Part IL will be dealt with in a separate Bill next Session. By this means the Bill will be sent to the House of Lords at the end of July. It is hoped that the Lords will then read the Bill a second time, and that Parlia- ment will adjourn in the first week in August till the middle of October, when the further consideration of the Bill will be continued in an autumn Session. The course taken by the Government is, we think, a wise one. Considering that the real struggle will come over the Lords' amendments, we do not see that any great good would have come from prolonged discussion in the Commons. Seventeen days of debate gives ample time in which to say all the things that are worth saying on either side.
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