BRITISH POLITICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

BY-ELECTION. THE HORNCASTLE ' SEAT. UNIONIST RETURNED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received February 18, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 'I7th February. ' The by-elecfcion for th& Horncastile (Lincolnshire) seat, rendered vacant by the sitting member, Lord "Willoughby de Eresby (Unionist) becoming a peer through, the death of his father, the Earl of Ancaster, resulted as follows :—: — Captain Weigall (Unionist)... 4955 Mr. Linfield (Liberal) ... 4848 PARLIAMENT BILL. TO GO TO THE HOUSE 0? LOBDS T N MAY. "CRISIS BEFORE THE CORONATION." LONDON, 17th February. Mr. Asquith, in moving, in the House of Commons, to appropriate private members' time for Government business, said the special circumstances of the Coronation must entail a suspension of Parliamentary activity. He" emphasised the necessity of passing the Parliament Bill, for which he had obtained an adequate and enthusiastic majority. (Cheers.) The Bill -would go to the House of Lords in May, thus giving that House ' full opportunity for disttTssion before tke Coronation. Mr. Austen Chamberlain (ex-Chan-cellor of the Exchequer) charged theGovernment with disregarding the loyal feelings of the nation and the comfort of the Crown by deliberately aiming at a crisis ju3t before xhs Coronation. After a long debate, the motion was carried by 196 votes to 118.