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GREAT HR1T.MN AM> IKKLAND. 



recover compensation. Ov. young per- 



fOM i ;: .,'ul-it. d. for win. ii it It 



and no woman, young i In 1<1 aft. -r 



working the full time allowed can take work 

 home. A regiM dent* mu-t i..- kept. 



The factory acts are extended to laundn- 

 the provisions requiring 'he fencing of machin- 

 ery and notice of accidents to docks, wharves, 

 Tin- law relating to bakeries is ex- 

 tended to all kinds of bakeries. The powers of 

 i h.- H..m.- Secretary to regulat* .In;. 

 ployroent* are enlarged. Medical practitioners 

 i to scud notice t<> tin- chief inspector 

 of faolorirs Ml in which disease has 



arton fr-'-n tin- conditions -f employment 

 worker- in t.-xtde industries who are employed 

 on piecework hftvearifhl to have supplied to 

 them such particulars ax will enable them to a-- 

 oartain the rate of wages. Workshop-* must be 

 registered and lists of <>ut-i<l<> workers must be 

 furnished to th.- ins|H.ctor of factories. 



A bill for add i : r two colonial jndir.'s 



to the Judicial Committee of the I'rivy Council 



: v to I Ii<- colonies because there 



was no provision for a salary, ami therefore no 

 active judge of the first rank in the colonies 



i.,- likely to accept the ofljce. The House 



of Ixrds negatived, as oft en lef..re. the proposal 

 to abolish primogeniture in cases of intestacy 

 and divide real estate in the same way as per- 

 sonalty among the family of an intestate. 



nminal appeal bill propose<l to cr< 

 Court of Criminal Ap|M-al and to grant ilicri-lit 

 <>f appeal in all capital cases when there is aeon- 



. The court would be able to amend or 

 set aside the sentence, not only on grounds of 

 informality or irregularity, but if the jury was 

 misdirected r the \erdict i* found to have been 

 against the weight of evidence, and to order a 



:.il if there has been any miscarriage of 

 justice. Prisoners under lesssentenccs than that 

 of death would only have the ri^ht of appeal by 

 leave of the court of trial or the Court of Appeal 

 or in certain cases of the Attorney-General. '1 hey 

 may also apply for a revision of their sentences, 

 subje* ril of having them increased. 



A bill was passed, in accordance with an 



-.-nt with the Russian Government, which 



M "f the Paris arbitration 



award to the Russian seal fisheries in Herini: 

 Sea. The bill went further than the agreement 

 with the United Stales in that it contained n,, 

 liraitati n . f time and covered the whole Pacific 

 of the forty-e,nd degree of lati- 

 tttde. Russia agree*! in return fort! 

 of KuMrian jorisdietioii ,,v,-r Kn^lish seal. 

 yond the three-mil- limit to restri.-t the annual 

 cal h on the Pribylofl Maud* to :{().(KK * 



Hr. Shaw-I/efevr*- liMuu'ht in a bill to exempt 



horseless carriages from the regulations govern- 



Ighwavs, which 



firohiblt them from going at a greater speed 

 than 4 miles an hour and r nt they shall 



^~^ * man bearing a red fla* A i-.ll 



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to Ire- 



attem of county coumi s as they 

 in hngland and Scotland. It was sup. 

 ported by the Government, but the Unionists, 



although the pri.po-ition was their 



ridicu 1 and the nioti\ 



< n a motion to erect a statue to Oliver 



\vell all the Nationalists as well :^ t! 



tives voted again-t the pr. |i..-iti..n. and the 



rnment was saved from defeat i.niv !> th- 



votes of Liln-ral rnioiii^ts. Tlie miii 

 ujH.n renounced the project. 



h bilK. except those of a 

 cliarii' red early in .M;i> 



committee including all tli<- Scot, 

 When the (io\ernm<-nt i 

 crofter"' bill to thi>i coininittee. hi. Ma-' 1 

 resigned his seat tor in\ern.---l,nv. win 

 won by the (>p|.o-ition. The Wel-h di- 

 ment lill was the only one of j.olitp.il iini..,r. 

 that was advanced in commit t.-. 

 lites, di-appoinlcd !... a ii-e tl. 

 was deferred, went into opposition. Tl., 

 nimeiit majority fell to in. and on 

 Thomas's proposal to omit the j.i 

 v.-iin- in the county council* the : 

 the Wel-h Church the majority was only , 

 the iii^lit following. June ; J1. Mr. I',! 

 moved the reduction of the salary of th. 

 tary for War. alle^in^ that there was ;m 

 cient supply of ammunition for the infantry. 

 Some of tne Radicals refrained from votin. 

 when a division was taken the amendin< 

 carried a.i:ainM the ministers b;. 

 Mr. CamplK'll-Banncrman, whom his colleagues 

 had kept out of the Speaker's chair i 

 could not -pare hi- 

 signed. The Cabinet on the followii 

 chose to reii:n and leave to their oppom-: 

 duty of dissolving Parliament. This ta 



ition was prepan-d t<. accept. Lop: 

 liury was reoue-ted by the (^ueen to forn: 

 ministry. This he was able to do without diffi- 

 culty, with the co-operation of Mr. Chaml 

 and the Duke of Devonshire. 



The new Government obtained tli< 



in supply, passed the I'-.-rin^ S 

 rescued the factories and workshop-, bill and 

 others of a noncontentious character, including 

 a bill relating to inquiry into fatal a<-cj.l 

 Scotland, a bill for naval work-, a bill to 

 the corrupt practices .-,ct. the Scotch bill : 

 re-nlation ,,f sea fisheries, t he extradition bill, 

 the naturalisation bill, and the- .Indicia 

 mit tee hill. Parliament was prorogued on July 

 6 and dissolved on July 8. 



I he salMmr) ( ahind. Tho Unioni 

 inet was constituted on .Inn- 

 Prime Minister and Secretary of S' 



MTairs. the Manjuis of Sali-bury: I-^rd 

 President of the Council, the Duke of ! 

 shire : I ( .f the T; 



Halfour: Secretary of State for the < 

 Joseph Chamberlain: Chancellor of t! 

 chequer. >ir Michael lli'-k--I'.' ;i- h : I 

 the Admiralty. < < .him (Joschen : 



Cham-ell. ,r. Lord llalsbury: L-.rd l'ri\ 

 Viscount Cross: chancellor of the hi. 



^ir Hi-tiry Jan; 



for the Ib-me Department, Sir Matthew White 

 Kidlex py of St- r. the Mar- 



?f State for hi-lia. 

 .ord (ti-orire Hamilton : Prcsjdi-nt of th- I'e-ard 

 of Trade. Charles T. Kitchie; IV ident of the 

 Local Government Board. Henry (,'hai)lin ; 



