Politics nowadays all turn on economies. The old-fashioned programmes of principles have more or less disappeared. We have to live the Hindu pantheon, but the Naga refused to touch anything. Orthodox Hindus believed that Naga was mighty angry and was showing her displeasure by resorting to a hunger strike. -Pujas were, therefore, performed by the villagers who implored the Naga to let them know in what way they bad offended her and how they should pro-vitiate her. The well-to-do amongst them went to the length of feeding the poor on a large scale in order to coax her to declare _her will but, up to the time of writing, the snake had not spoken and stil occupied the temple to the consternation of the devotees. and all legislation is drafted to! that end. As a result there is a good deal of flux in polities. The Conservatives have not lost many adherents but Liberalism still keeps losing many of its chief people. Mr. George Lambert, a Privy Councillor, who was Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1905 to 1915, the latest to secede from the ranks of the Liberal Party. a letter to the Rev. C. E, Jewell, hon. secretary of the South Melton (Devon) Division Liberal Association, Mr. Lambert announces—the of his candidature for ion, which he represented in Parliament from 1801 to 1924, stating that he cannot accept. the Liberal Land Policy. The Liberal Party has lost by secession this year about six prominent members, Mr, Ben Spoor, M. P. who used to be' chief 'Labour' Whip is now disowned by the LIP. and a good many of the Labour leaders are more or less suspect to their advanced followers. Accordingly it isnot it too" much to say that we shall probably have a good deal of stirring incidents in political Ife generally, and this session will be pretty stiff test of the ability of the present Government. The Ministry, however, does manage to retain public confidence because the average lector thinks it is ct all events doing its best in the interests of everybody. At the present time it Is being attacked very violently for reducing the State grant to the Approved Societies in the Economy Bill, but this opposition is. very largely political and nobody bothers about it, Bishops' Opposition to Betting Tax Mr. Oswald Mosley, who is the! son of Sir Oswald Mosley, and his wife who is the daughter of Lord Curzon and who also. inherits a considerable portion of the Leit accumulated in Chicago, are both very much now in the public eye. Obviously there -is a. bitter family feud between the son and the father, but the son while announcing hie intention to abandon his title, when it accrues to him—which of course he cannot de—expressly states that he does not Propose to abandon his fortune—which he could do.
Everybody is waiting for tha Budget and the Bishops have come cut en dice against a Betting Tax. There is a good deal of doubt to whether the Chancellor wil! embark on such a controversial! problem. The Prince of Wales is Bi where he will well and he
medical hotel and appar in to a large extent for treatment, You will remember the curious death of six people who were found a burning baure at Malviide rear Dublin on "March ist, A foal, nervous lecking man, Henry MeCade has now been dizained on the charge of being responsible for the whole tragedy; ha was apparently a gardener at the house
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.