CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. -COPYRIGHT.] BRITISH POLITICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1902, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. -COPYRIGHT.] BRITISH POLITICS.

THE VACANT NEWMARKET SEAT. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received December 19, 8.42 a.m.) LONDON, 18tli December. Though Lord Roberts (Commander-in-Chiet) agreed, the Secretary of State for War (Mr. Brodrlck) rehibed permission ior Sir Hugh M'Caonont, who is an officer ou full pa 3% to stand for the Newmaiket seat, vacant by the death of Col. Harry il'Calmont. [Sir Hugh M'Galmont is a MajorGeneral in the Army. He represented North Antrim in the Conservative interest from 1895 £o 1899.] Sir. Henry Leonard Brassey, nephew of Lord Bra^sey, is the Conservative candidate for the seat, and Mr. C. D. Rose, who was an unsuccessful candidate at the last general election, again offers himself as a Liberal. THE EDUCATION BILL. A WARNING- TO THE CLERICAL PARTI 7 . " (Received December 19, 8.42 a.m.) LONDON, 18th December. The House of Commons, by 228 to 82, agreed to the addition proposed by the Earl of Halsbury to the clause moved by Colonel Kenyon-Slaney, defining more clearly the right of appeal to the Bishops in regard to the character of religious instruction in schools. A vigorous protest from Lord Hugh Cecil (member for Greenwich and son of Lord Salisbury) drew from Mr. Balfour a strong warning of the danger to the church of any driving deeper of the .wedge unhappily separating ecclesiastical opinion and the great body of lay opinion. TJie Bill was then pas«ed by the Commons, and subsequently by the House of Lords.