BRITISH POLITICS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12016, 17 August 1907, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

London, August 25. After a stormy all-night sittiug the Marriage with Decesed Wife's Sister Bill was passed through all its stages in the House of Commons. Received August 16, 11.25 p.m. London, August 16. In the House of Commons the feature of the debate on the Appropiation Bill was Mr Balfour's renewed protest against the closure. Sir H. C. Bannerman replied: You can t get quart votes into a pint o£ time. Sir H. O. Bannerman added that the faults and blemishes of. the Grand Committee experiment were remediable. . Mr Birrell, replying to the Labor membeis, declared that the civil authorities at Belfast were justified in requisitioning the military as a precautionary measure. Eveiyone deplored the deaths, but had the mob obtained the mastery the loss of life would have been terrible.