OCCUPATIONS OF MEMBERS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12764, 4 February 1910, Page 3

OCCUPATIONS OF MEMBERS.

GOVERNMENT AND THE LORDS. [Press Association— Copxhight.J London, Feb. 2. The new House of Commons contains 125 barristers, 56 landowners, 61 manufacturers, 45 peers' sons, 44 military officers, and 38 journalists. Sir Edward R.. Russell, propneor of the Liverpool "Daily Tost/ ha. published a statement .that tb© As--quith Government is committed, to discontinues in office unless tho Hing gives an assurance that the power ot the House of Lords will be- broken. He adds, that the Budget is of secondary importance, and that supply can be refused until grievances are T Th| S<< Star" warmly supports Sir Edwatd Russell; but the "Westminster Gazette" opposes the suggestion on 'the ground that a sensational withdrawal of the Government would merely result in putting. Mr. Balfour in office pending dissolution.