BRITISH POLITICS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 831, 26 April 1910, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

London, April 23

Sir P). Carson, speaking at Eastbourne, and referring to Mr Asquith, said there was nothing more dangerous to the State than a man with a strong face and weak knees. The declaration that in hypothetical circumstances the Prime Minister was going to advise the King to make 500 new Peers was a scandalous threat. If such a tragedy occurred, the 50c would be branded, not as Peers of the realm, but as scavengers of the Liberal Party, who sold themselves for a dirty job.

A belated return shows that a small majority of the Northumberland miners are against opposing Messrs Burt and Fenwick, tor the Morpeth and Wansbeck seats, respectively, at the next Parliamentary election.

[lt was at first reported that by a small majority the miners had decided to run Labour candidates against Messrs Burt and Fenwick, who refused to take the party pledge.]

London, April 24,

Lord Salisbury, in a letter to the Times states the Conservatives’ attempts to force a food-tax upon a reluctant nation when a constitutional revolution is threatened is treachery to the country and inconsistent- The Conservatives cannot win without the moderate men who voted against them in January. The Spectator, commenting on Mr Winston Churchill’s action in closuring the debate on Sir Robert Anderson’s pension, states the closure was used not because the House considered the subject sufficiently debated, but because the Irish party was determined to deprive members of free speech, because they said things the Irish members disliked. Nationalist domination was completely a mistake.