BRITISH POLITICS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1021, 25 July 1911, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

London, July 23,

Dissentient Unionists are organising a public dinner for Lord Halsbury on Wednesday in recognition of his determination to insist on the Lords’ amendment to the Veto Bill as the last safeguard ot the Constitution. Lord Selbourne will preside. Mr Austin Chamberlain, Lord Hugh Cecil, Baron Willoughby de Broke, Lord Lovat, Lord Salisbury, the Hon. Charles Wyndham, Sir Edward Carson, and Mr W. H. Smith are supporting the proposed fighting policy of the Unionists. The bye-election for West Somerset, to replace Sir Acland Hood, who was raised to the peerage, resulted: Mr Boles (Conservative) 5025, Mr Dudley Ward (Liberal) 4421. The Standard, the Globe, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the Sheffield Telegraph strongly urge a fighting policy for the Unionists. The Graphic, the Glasgow Herald, the Western Morning News, the Liverpool Courier, and the Yorkshire Post deprecate dying in the last ditch. The Weekly Observer, which is the most influential political organ in England, and has led the Unionists, says: “ Surrender would demoralise the whole of the Unionist organisation of the country and destroy all faith in its leadership and prospects. The Observer advises Mr Joseph Chamberlain to fight to the end. The Spectator insists that it would be deplorable to force the Government to create 400 peers, and that a dissolution would mean ruin to the Unionists. Sir Edward Carson, speaking on behalf of the Irish Unionist members ot the House of Commons, informed Lord Lansdowne that the digrace and iguomy of surrender would far outweigh the temporary advantage of two years’ delay to Home Buie.