The Progress of the World. 



627 



Memorials of 

 Our Chief. 



"The Stead International 

 Memorial Fund to pro- 

 vide lodging homes for 

 Women, to be called 

 The Stead Hostels," was decided on at 

 a meeting in the Westminster Palace 

 Hotel on November 4th. Earl Grey 

 presided over the influential gathering. 

 As soon as the formative resolution had 

 been carried, Major-General Brockle- 

 hurst announced, to the intense satis- 

 faction of all present, that Her Majesty 

 Oueen Alexandra had indicated her 

 wilhngness to be patroness of the move- 

 ment. This royal act is of a piece with 

 the interest which Her Majesty has 

 again and again graciously expressed in 

 the work of our chief while he was on 

 this side. Among those who spoke 

 were Mr. Cunninghame Graham, Mrs. 

 Henry Fawcett, and Dr. Qifford. It is 

 impossible here to enumerate the 

 friends who have sent letters com- 

 mendatory of the scheme. A very 

 representative Council has been formed. 

 Major-General Brocklehurst is chairman 

 of committee; Mr. B. F. Hawksley is 

 hon. treasurer. The hon. secretary is 

 Miss Josephine Marshall, " Salve," 

 Willifield Way, Hendon, N.W. The 

 London County Council has granted 

 permission to place a medallion of our 

 chief on the granite pedestal on the 

 Victoria Embankment, to the east of 

 Waterloo Bridge, or on either of the 

 granite pedestals on the Embankment 

 near Temple Pier. 



During the last month 

 An Unhinged the Oppositiou rather 



Opposition. gggj^ ^Q Y^^^Q 1q5^ ^J^gj^ 



heads. By dexterously 

 watching their opportunity^ they 

 caught the Whips of the Coalition 

 napping and, on a quite impossible 



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" The House will now Divide.' 



[There has been more criticism of the financial arrange- 

 ments of the present Liberal Government than perhaps of any 

 previous Government. The Telephone Job, the Marconi Deal, 

 and the India Office Loans have caused a great deal of talk, 

 and people have not hesitated to charge the House of 

 Commons with being too directly interested in the spoils.] 



amendment by Sir Frederick Banbury 

 to the Home Rule Bill, secured a 

 snap majority of 21 votes. As the 

 normal Government majority is more 

 than- a hundred, the idea that the 

 Government had received a mortal blow 

 could only have appealed to minds 

 slightly off their normal balance. When 

 Mr. Asquith proposed to rescind the 

 Banbury amendment, the Opposition 

 by persistent bellowing brought the 

 sitting to a close. The intervention 

 of the Speaker and the acquiescence 

 of the Government attained the same 

 end as rescission, but in a way that 

 apparently did not so excite the suscepti- 

 bilities of the Opposition ; and the 

 continued advance of the Home Rule 

 Bill through Committee was secured 

 with only a loss of five days' time for 

 the House, and a more serious loss of 

 dignity on the part of the Opposition. 

 Unionist leaders and newspapers have 



