BRITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1957, 13 December 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE EDUCATION UILL. r-g n-fl PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT London, Dec 11.

Mr Redmond threatened to oppose the expiring Laws Continuance Bill, with a view to preventing renewal of the Peace Preservation of Ireland Act, 1881. Thereupon the Government quietly omitted it

from the list of statues scheduled. The Unionists propose that it be reinstated, and emphasise Mr Morley’s description of the Act as merely a police regulation. There are many comments on the Government seeking to throw the onus of rejection of the Education Bill on the House of Lords.

Tho Standard says the Government has decided to kill the Bill.

The Morning Post declares the last hope of settlement is flickering in the socket. The Times says the Government have passed sentence on the Bill, and asked the House of Lords to start again to negotiate with the hostile Commons. If the Government really wanted a settlement they would have offered concessions, with a plain, unmistakable guarantee. The Daily News contends that if the Bill is lost Nonconformists’ only hope in matters of education is the frank adoption of a secular system,

THE HOUSE OF LORDS’ AMENDMENTS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 9.30 p.m., Deo. 12 London, Dec. 12,

Ia the House of Commons, on the Education Bill, Sir H, Campbell Bannerman in a conciliatory tone, urged that the discussion of individual amendments, instead of a cumulative effect as a whole was calculated to confuse, especially if the House was not aware of what particular concession would satisfy a majority of the House of Lords, He firmly believed it possible, even probable, tna. the counsels of moderation and peaco would prevail. Mr Balfour denounced she present gagging as an expedient whioh was intended lio enable the Government to escape the results of the embarrassing failure of their negotiations with Irish Catholics and English Ooniermists in their hopeless search for compromise.

A resolution to dual with the amendments as a whole was carried by 317 to 89.

Tne House proceeded to discuss a motion to disagree with the House of Lords’ amendments.