Mr. Balfour has proved himself wonderfully conciliatory on the London Munici polities Bill, and the result is that he will easily complete the Committee stage of the Bill' before the Whitsuntide Holidays. Sir beg' Geauphell Benner speaking at the National Liberal Club the other night, declared that the Bill, in its progress through Committee, had lost the greater number of "those objectionable provisions of which the Liberals complained so much when was first introduced." And he gave the credit of this to the London Conservative members, who had displayed a wholesome independence of opinion and action Mr, Balfour has acted very wisely in deferring to the London members. Recent elections have shown clearly that London, though Conservative in Imperial politics, is Liberal in municipal politics. In regard to the Government of London, strangely enough, it is the Liberals who are inclined to be '"un-ionis and the Conservatives who are
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