BRITISH POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 124, 18 July 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United 1 Association. London, ) aly 17. r i'ho fact that the Government was scarcely able to rely on the support of half the existing Liberal peeis during the recent divisions, is ranch commented on. It is reported that the majority of the absentees are barons, and the dissatisfaction is due to the incident in connection v.ith the proposed creation of peers to pass the Parliament Bill, many distinguished Liberals to whom peerages hare been tentatively offered insisting upon receiving vicounties instead of baronies. Dissentient Liberal peers say that the now creations should bo confined to baronies, 1 and they themselves he made viscounts. In the House of Commons Mr T. E. Harvey, on behalf of the Educational Settlement Committee, supported by Colonel Williams, Air C. Bathurst and Mr Silvester Horne, introduced the Elementary Education in England and Wales Bill, providing inter alia, for facilities for relig'oii'instruction according to parents’ wishes.