Show I CONDiTIONS IN MERRY ENGLAND Statesmen Uneasy Business Busine s Unsettled and Hard HardTimes HardTimes HardTimes Times Coming Republican Special Cable London Dec 29 While it Is not expected expected ex ox- that hunt there will bo be any change In the tho ministry before beCore th the end of Januar January January Jan Jan- uary and therefore no general election eec elec tion ton it is Ikel likely that by elections by ma may nual maybo bo in a n few Cew districts by 1 reason rea rca son on of or tho thuG usual distribution 01 ol peerages peerages peerages peer peer- ages at tho hue first of oC the tho year and these to the are aro greatly dreaded dread dread- appeals people greaty ert ed h by tho lie Liberals because of or the prevailing prevailing 11 pre pre- business depression which Is likely to react ruet on the party In iii power 0 There la is an ominous shrinkage In Inthe Inthe the textile and iron hon and steel trades that and there are arc man ninny many Indications the American 4 reverses revers s and Iho tho Gorman uncertainties n ha have hae e seriously affected British ratio trad Les Time The dismissal of a thousand thou thou- sand saud men from rein tIme tho Cly Clyde e ship ship yards sn Increase in the lie number and the Ut largo large of unemployed I 1 Lon London on are arc ominous signs It I has hns been a 3 bad baa year ar for the stock exchange where an un export expert writer writ writ- stoc er or In the Bankers Dankers' Maga Magazine estimates tho time total shrinkage UH as 1 about 9 cent Consequently Coast Conse I pounds or t per Const Const- while thilo there have been fewer Cower failures and amid tho the number o of ta has fallen aul oft off or tho the sha shadow ow of hard lUtes limes is settling over o er tho the landel land vem J-vem farmers have ha c felt the time pressure especially el in tIme tho north where whore Lor Lord and other largo large larro landlords are making liberal liberal reductions In rent In recognition of oC tho the failure of or crops In Ireland tho the situation is oven even worse since driving cattle catte has his imperilled the tho th time the grazing Industry and ond interrupted transfer of lard land from owners to ton ton- ants an antl on 3 they do not know what to do although h the tho courts have ha Imprisoned a member of oC parliament and t the hue 10 natIonalists nationalists nation natIon- are still rent faction with John alo Redmond mon negotiating for tor peace with Tc 1 Mess's 9 S' S OBrien O'Brien a and nl Dion Dillon The liberal ministry Is also hampered hamper hamper- ed cd by the tho election pro promise to es establish es- es old oM ago pensions for Cor which at o n least would be bo required a as a uncle basis with wih tho ho age ro limit fixed at t GO 65 5 which Mr tr Asquith dooms deems too tl the labor leaders too high i il i I. I L 1 4 fim o w. w W I |