London vit Bombay, 15th February.
Parliament' has been opened, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, ing on the Address, said that isola Question still overshadows everything, He vigorously condemned the Government for clinging to office though the feeling of the count had been indubitably demonstrate The prolongation of the present situation, he said, is a public danger, and a usurpation of power.
Speaking on the subject of the war, he said he hoped that Lord Lansdowne would embrace the ear-hest opportunity to use the influence of England on the side of peace, The Tibet expedition, he said, was a tragic comedy, and he asked why the Government's censure of the agents was not carried higher—Reuter, Later.
In the House of Lords, Earl Spencer said that he trusted the Government would not lose any oper opportunity that might occur for trying, in conjunction with other Powers, to bring the war to a peaceul solution.—Reuter, London, 15th February.
Mr. Balfour said that he saw no ground for Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's suggestion that the Imperial should censure the Iaodian Government in relation to Tibet, The Indian had always recognised that the Imperial Government must be supreme in these matters, and had never departed from that attitude in its dealings with Tibet.—2zolusive London vi1 Bombay, 16th February.
Lord Lansdowne said that ill-considered intervention was likely to be fraught with the worst results. Is was unnecessary for him to say, that should an opportunity offer, the Government'would avail themselves of it with alacrity—Reuter.
Later, Mr. Asquith moved, that the Fiscal Question having been for two years subject of discussion, the time was now come for submitting the issue' to the country without farther delay.—Reuter.
Eater, Mr, Balfour said, in reference to Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's suggestion that the Ministry should resign, that that was a matter which rested with the House of Commons.
'A discussion of the Fiscal Question in the present parliament would, he said, be irrelevant, and he taunted the Opposition with the confusion in which their fature programme was
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