A WEEK'S RESPITE.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13167, 25 July 1911, Page 2

A WEEK'S RESPITE.

ADVICE TO THE PEERS,

FURTHER RESISTANCE USELESS,

(Received July 24, 10.15 p.m.) London, July 24. It is understood that Mr Asquith will adjourn consideration of tho Lords' amendment for a week in order to give time to secure assurances that the Bill will pass unamended.

Two thousand applied for tickets for Mr Half our's speech to his constituents at tho Cannon Street Hotel to-morrow. His declaration of policy is eagerly awaited.

The "Daily Mail" says nothing can be gained by further opposition. The "Chronicle" hopes the Bill will pass without the creation of peers. The Nationalist newspapers of Dublin applaud Mr Asquith's coup d'etat.

The "Dublin Times" and the "Irish Times" believe tho House of Lords should yield to force. The Ulster Unionist papers favour a fighting policy.

Lord Charles Beresford, in a letter to the newspapers, declares that Mr Asquith's letter has temporarily demoralised the Unionists. Forcing the Government to exercise the Royal prerogative must result in paralysis of the party's fighting strength. He adds that tho Duke of "Wellington, in the face of a superior force, retired into winter quarters. Lord Curzon, in a letter to "The Times," contravorts the assertion that unless tho Unionist sforce the creation of peers they will be convicted of a craven and despicable surrender. There can be no surrender in refraining from pressing resistance when resistance is futile. A year or two hence tho very men who are now shouting loudly will be denouncing the strategy which robbed the Unionists of the opportunity for effective resistance. He adds that Mr Balfour heartily concurs in Lord Lansdowne's advice to the peers, and tho great majority of the Unionists also support it.