... T think the Farmers’ Union would stand by him (hear. hear). s an extraordinarily Prior to the passing of the Representation of the People Act the three Parliamentary divisions in Bedfordshire numbered 35,658 electors. Those on the new register number ...

... may have Carlilian ideas on the value of the franchise, or we mn.! be conscientious objectors to votea DBut the Representation of the People Act has been passed to see that the fpeu&l)e are represented, aund it is going %o it. “I'he new register of electors ...

... proportional representation has been adopted by the Tring Farmers’ Union. The County Councils for the two countics concerned are to be requested to make application to the Commissioners to be appointed under the Representation of the People Act to combine ...

... terms of the Act. The Rev. W. C. Griffith (Totternhoe) spoke very strongly of the unfairness of inhabitants being turned out of their houses to make way for people desiring chelter from the raids, and the Clouncil agreed to make representations to the Local ...

... probably be ite last meeting at Bedford on Saturday week and said farewell to Sir Arthur Black, who under the Representation of the People’s Act is transferred to the new Mid Beds Division. Sir Arthur Black, in reply to a number of very cordial speeches ...

... TLADY GUARDIAN PROPOSED When the question of filling the vacancy in the representation of Leighton Buzzard came forward, Mr. Batchelar proposed and Mr., Stanbridge seconded, that Miss Alice Brown, of the Victoria Ironworks, be elected. Mr, Batchelar said ...

... League of Nations as the best hope of the peoples to prevent wars in Huture. Bentham fifihts for restoration of our liberties, freedom of speech, and of the Press. Bentham stands for ‘the repeal of the ConscriA)tion Acts the moment peace is declared. Bentham ...

... other officials should be appointed to supervise in an official manner children of soldiers and sailors who are living with people other than relatives, was supported on the proposition of Mr. Howard Spensley. Mr. Spensley mentioned that boarded-out children ...

... disoussed at solne Jeagth, and one member observed thac certain people ought to come out of the foundries befora they took away r.ore butchers, who were doing their best to provide food for the people. Tt was eventually lesolved that “Owing to the lenormous ...

... astounding play has furnished everybody something to talk about this week. Some have felt creepy about °t, but the majority of the people who have packed out the houses at the Theatr: Royal have recognised it as one of the most thrilling plays of the modern stage ...

... but it will also tend to further the getting together and to remove many of the misunderstandings which have kept two peoples apart for years.-H. CHARLES WooD, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. BIRDS AND INSECTS. [To THE EDITOR oF CouNTRY LIFE.] SIR ...

... which will secure the continued exploitation of the mass of the people by gureat groups of Capitalists, and great combines and trusts, and not only the exploitation of their own working people, but of some of the developed parts ot) the earth? Was it to ...