BRITISH POLITICS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14823, 14 November 1913, Page 9

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE GOVERNMENT UNEASY. COMPROMISE OVER RULE. ("TiflKa"-Sydce? "Sun" Special Cable.) (Received November 13th, 6.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 13. There are good grounds for believing that the prolonged meetings of Cabinet are duo to tho fact that the Government is concerned over tho set-backs at Reading and Linlitbgow. and is further perturbed at the obvious Labour resentment of the prosecution of Larkin.

Tho .Cabinet has definitely begun to consider practical possibilities for giving effect to Mr Asquith's invitation for an interchange of suggestions and views between the parties.

CATHOLIC PEER ON HOME RULE

(Received November 13th. 10.30 p.m.)

LONDON, November 13

Tho Duko of Norfolk, the leading Roman''Catholic layman in the United Kingdom, presiding at a meeting of the Primrose League at Norwich, denounced tho gross betrayal of handing over Ireland's destinies to those openly abhorring the British connexion. As a Catholic, ho regretted the introduction of the religious controversy, but Unionist leaders had not appealed to religious passions. Tho bigotry of Ulster largely arose from fear and ignorance. He admitted that loyalists in the provinco were entitled to fear what might happen in the event of Home Rulo being carried.

MINISTER ON COMPROMISE

Sir John Simon, Attorney-General, speaking at Manchester, said that there was hope that Mr Asquith's invitation, which 3lr Bonar Law had so patriotically received, might lead to some solution which would remove tho Irish question from the realms of controversy.