'To-morrow—if the Prime Minister's sanguine forecast is made good—we shall. be within a fortnight of the end of the' Session; but Sir Henry has given the House so much late work to do that it is doubtful whether a succession of all-night sittings and a free use of the guillotine will enable legislators to get away for their holidays on the day mentioned—August 24. Much depends, however, on the House of Lords. There was at one time a strong inclination among their Lordships to throw out two Scottish Bills to which they feel deep objection—the Small. Landholders (Scotland) Bill and the Land Values (Scotland) Bill. That course, however much it might have exasperated the Government, would have lightened its task. Now it is understood that the Leaders of the Opposition in the Upper House have decided to take the same course with these measures as with the E Tenants (Ireland) Bill—that i drastic amendments and throw upon the Government the responsibility of accepting these amendments, negotiating further, or dropping the Bills.
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