THE BRITISH CRISIS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 18 February 1911, Page 5

THE BRITISH CRISIS.

:r ; . ~ » , > 1 vflß. ASQUITH'S PLANS. ' ] Bf Telteranli-Fress AssoelaUon-CoDyrlghl • 1 .(Rec. February 18, 1.3 a.m.) j London, February 17. I • Mr.. Asquith, in moving, in the j House of Commons, to appropriate pri- ' 1 vate members' timo > for • Government J business, said tlio special circumstanccs ■-! of tho must entail a sus- ] pension of Parliamentary activity. Hcf j emphasised the necessity of passing the - Parliament Bill, ,for which he had obtaiiied an adequate and enthusiastic ■ majority. (Cheers.) - Tho Bill would \ go to the House of Lords in May,: thus' giving that House full opportunity for.\: -j discussion before tho Coronation. . : i Mri Austen Chamberlain charged thai ! Government with disregarding the j " j loyal ieolings of tho nation,.-and tho I-] comfort of tho Crown by deliberately |V j aiming -at a crisis just beforo the, j Coronation.- i ~; j After a long debate, the motion-wa3 <■ s carried by 196 votes to 118. • ."i ■— ~ ' I .- ! CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY SEAT. '• -j • . . ■ . ■ • „ .•"■■•"a London, February 16. J . The bv -election for the Cambridge -1 University scat, rendered vacant by ■ - J the death of Professor S. H. Butcher,- .) (Unionist), resulted in tho return-of I j Mr. Larmor,. tho official Unionist : cau- * 3 didate. Tho voting was: — 3lr. Larmor (Unionist) ...... . 2308 ' | Mr. Cox (Unionist Free- • \ i •-'•.'••trader);. 1954 Mr. Pago (Indepdt. Unionist) ' 332 . • j RUSSIAN MURDER CASE. } -1 4 V 1 : ' THE TRIAL CONCLUDES. - •> .. '' ' / ■' By Telegraph—Press Association—CoDyrlaht. 1 . ! - St. Petersburg, ;.February 16. ;) ] Tho trial of Dr. Patchenko on--, a, .] charge of murdering Count Bouturhn, ; j a wealthy young' ex-army -officer,: m j Slay last, and of Count' O'Brien de | Lassy and Madnmo Muravieva on.' J charges of conspiracy with . j to/."remove" General Bouturlin . (the i i dead . count's father), and Madame La- 'i : j zardi'(the general's divorced wife), was i. j concluded yesterday. . I '< VDe Lassy aiid Patchenko were found t j guilty; the latter. in extenuating cir- j 1 cumstances, and Muravieva not, guilty,/ ;;

. SENTENCES IMPOSED. / ' i (Rec. February; 17, 11.25 p.m.): •■:. !■ j J ■: St. Petersburg, February 17. % - Count do Lassy has. been sentenced v "I to -petial servitude-for •life,-', and-,,?Dr.'-J j Patchenko to fifteen years, imprison* v' ] nient... • ■..._ ■ . _ : - . j Count Bonturlin, an.officer of the Im~-/r'3 perial Guards, belonging to a most-dis-' .! tingnished family,- and heir to a fortune ' .of. died-suddenly. .Two {arrests," i were made,tit:being> the de-\- : ? ceased count: was; poisoned. The prisoners; -J are the dead man'sbrother-inJa.w,. Count i v; de;Lassajv and his physician, Dr. Pat-1 * ctenlco. Count dp Lassy : was; Count' .i Bonturlin's heir,';arid - lie-.is accusedi of having bribed tho doctor .'to poison his ..»! patient.. . Count Bonturlia's elder brother, ■--* died very .suddenly; j • i AVhen Count ' Bonturlin, "a- wcalthv J young officer, became- indisposed -his i brother-in-law, Count, O'Brien, de Laisv,; i advisod:him ;to. cair.'in; Dr.-'.Patchenko. Jnstead of recovering, however, the count , s 'grew .Tapidly and unaccountably worse. ! Then ho died, and the physician and CQunt.;de Lassy. were arresteti.- Dr. Pat--... chehfeo subsequently confessed to having t i poisoned; his' patient.-V Nor was, -all.; /She-charges against the l.doctor and! i Count de ;Xassy were followed,-.by still; j graver accusations ;'against ■-Patchenko.*. 1 The' police, alleged that .he: had-'made a practice of murdering persons; of 'great,], i wealth on behalf of their heirs, from whom he'exacted afrecompense of .EoO.OOO •: i for each death.. Patchenko, capped :liis i, ,i confession of the young: count's murder ■by .admitting' the truth, of these other; „j 'allegations./ Mme.;-Sluravieva is alleged! to have been associated with Dr. i'atch-! enko iti his "murder agerioy." The doctor y-, is quite an old man. The count, this !., victim, was only twenty-sis years of age. 1 i