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Show PARLIAMENT REASSEMBLES. The Moat Important Mraaure. That Will Com. Lp. London, Jan. 22. Special to The Times. Parliament reassembled today. to-day. Gladstone was among the earliest earli-est arrivals. The McCarthy wing of tho Irish party gave him cordial recognition. recog-nition. Lord Salisbury, Mr. Smith and the other responsible representatives of the government were on band early. The first business will be the titles bill, which has passed its second reading, read-ing, and which is certain to become a law. Its main object is to secure the clergy their title rent charge without the trouble or unpleasantness of collecting col-lecting it. . Mrr Atkinson gave notice -of fhtt'lot" lowing- motion: "That in future all questions be printed with the replies to them, and awaiting the arrival of members mem-bers at the house of commons every day, so that tho business of the house may not be interrupted by members and ministers asking and replying to questions orally." It is quite likely that this rule will be adopted, as it will save a great deal of the time of the house. The last session of parliament will rank, for several reasons, among the most remarkable in history. It was one of the shortest; all or most of the important im-portant work projected in the queen's speech was accomplished; there was no obstruction, and yet, owing to the dramatic dra-matic incidents which occurred during its brief term, the position of the political polit-ical parties underwent a modification that may seriously affect for years to come their relation to each other. The principal measures dealt with by the government were the two Irish land bills and tho tithes bill, all of which passed their second readiug with only the feinted attempt at opposition'. The breakup of the Irish party gave the government nn opportunity of putting forward their programme which they seized with avidit3'. Whether the present parliament will be allowed to run to the full septennial term depends wholly upon the judgment judg-ment of Lord Salisbury as to tho probabilities prob-abilities of his success at a general election. elec-tion. There are fresh rumors that it is his intention to take advantage of the breach in the home rule party to appeal to tho country. |