BRITISH POLITICS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12402, 18 November 1908, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

(Received, Nov 17, 10.30 p.m.) London, Nov 17. Lord Halifax, President of the English Church Union, and Lord Cecil, Dean of Canterbury, have issued a circular to the incumbents of England and Wales, urging the defeat of the proposed compromise on the -education question. THE LICENSING BILL. In the House of Commons, in the report stage of the Licensing Bill, the Government moved an amendment to clause three, extending the time .limit for another seven years. • Replying to Mr Balfour's spirited protest against the confiscatory policy, ,Mr Herbert Samuel declared that a fourteen years' time limit wasjust, while twenty-one years' was generous.