Parliament reassembled after the Whitsuntide Recess on Thursday. During question
time Mr. Winston Churchill stated that the verbatim Report of the Imperial Conference would be issued about the end of the month, and Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman asked Sir F. Banbury to pat off till Monday his question as to when it was proposed to take the second reading of the Irish Council Bill. They had. just returned from their holidays and had hardly had time to consider the matter. The remainder of the sitting was devoted to Supply and the discussion of the Board of Agriculture and Prisons Votes. Appeals were made from both sides of the House in favour of relaxing the swine-fever regulations, on the ground that they amounted to a practical prohibition of the industry of pig-breeding ; but Sir E. Strachey, on behalf of the Government, declared that he could bold out no hope of granting this concession at present in view of the risks, not only to animals, but to human beings. The vote was agreed to, as was also that for Prisons, after a discussion in which Mr. Gladstone defended the Prison Commissioners against the charges of defective and harsh admnistration.
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