18 NOVEMBER 1911, Page 17

At a meeting in the Carlton Club on Monday Mr.

Bonar Law was chosen to succeed Mr. Balfour as leader of the Unionist Party in the House of Commons. Mr. Chaplin was in the'chair. Mr. Bonar Law was proposed by Mr. Long and seconded by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, and was elected unani- mously. According to an unofficial account which appeared in the Times and is no doubt accurate, Mr. Long, after a high tribute to the great services of Mr. Balfour, said that his own name and Mr. Austen Chamberlain's had been promi- nently before the party for some days in connexion with the

leadership. He wished to say that from the beginning they had been in constant communication with each other. In pro- posing Mr. Bonar Law he had the absolute support of Mr. Austen Chamberlain.