On Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer read the King's
Message with regard to the need of renewed ptovision for the Civil List, and the proposed list of members of the Committee on the Civil List was handed in that evening. It consists of ten Liberals : Mr. Asquith, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. W. H. Dickinson, Sir Charles Dilke, Mr. J. E. Ellis, Mr. Gibson Bowles, Mr. Eugene Wason, Sir Henry Dalziel, Sir E. Cornwall, and Sir D. Brynmor Jones ; nine Conserva- tives : Mr. Balfour, Mr. Akers-Douglas, Mr. Austen Chamber- lain, Mr. F. B. Mildmay, Mr. Stuart-Wortley, Mr. George Cave, Mr. Hayes Fisher, Mr. Lonsdale, and Mr. Steel- Maitland ; and two Labour Members o Mr. Barnes and Mr. Shackleton. We may note that some exceedingly wise and practical remarks on the problem of the Civil List—doubtless by Mr. Labonchere, who sat on the last Committee—are to be found in Truth of June 8th.
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