FIRST DAY'S POLLNG.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13904, 1 December 1910, Page 7

FIRST DAY'S POLLNG.

I' : SrR EDWAKD GREY ON DEVOLUTION. • (Received November 30th, 9.5 p.m.) . : LONDOX, November 30. Polling takes placo in fifty-five electorates on Saturday, . including the wnoua Birmingham, Bristol, and Man«iester seats, Salford, Cambervrell, Showditch (Western Divisions), GrinisItf. Darlington, and Newington. .' Sif Edward Grey, in his address to , fee electors of Berwick, says the House '«f Lords is not the only danger threatening the House of Commons. Without • Wge measure of devolution the House of Commons cannot attend to Imperial affairs, and matters concern- '„ Wg the whole, country. If local powers Wasaiding those of the Canadian ProTweas ere given to parts of the United Kingdom, this would not endanger but WCtte the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament. A reformed Second Chamber is a necessity, but there should be ~ machinery to ensure that the considered. .V'JP&ioa ot a substantial majority of Isi 7* Coininone should prevail. '*,31r lewij Harcourt, Secretary for the V Colonies, is confined to bed. His -wife B oondutting his electioneering cam- ; P»gn in the ltoesendalo division of Ijancashim, , i The iiiberab will contest all the Lon- ', don geata except the City. ; Mr Balfoiir and Sir F. G. Banbury 1 J e L*4 v » which ia a stronghold * ?f Unionism. Sir Hugh Bell contested . i-he seat for tin: Liberals in January ■ J*»t, but suffered a tremendous defeat, l»y over 12,000 votes.