he
Nationalists. The final returns gave the Liberals 274 seats, the
Unionists 273, the Nationalists 82, and the Laborites 41. The Asquith
government found itself still in power, but absolutely dependent upon
the co-operation of the Labor and Nationalist groups. Upon the great
issues involved there was no very clear pronouncement, but it was a
foregone conclusion that the tax proposals would be enacted, that some
reconstitution of the House of Lords would be undertaken, and that
free trade would not yet be in any measure abandoned.[227]

[Footnote 227: R. G. Levy, Le budget radical
anglais, in _Revue Politique et Parlementaire_,
Oct. 10, 1909; G. L. Fox, The Lloyd-George Budget,
in _Yale Review_ (Feb., 1910); E. Porritt, The
Struggle over the Lloyd-George Budget, in
_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, Feb., 1910; P.
Hamelle, Les elections anglaises, in _Annales des
Sciences Politiques_, May 15, 1910; S. Brooks, The
British Elections, in _North American Review_,
March, 1910; W. T. Stead, The General Elections in
Great Britain, in _Review of Reviews_, Feb., 1910.
A useful survey is Britannicus, Four Years of
British Liberalism, in _North American Review_,
Feb., 1910, and a more detailed one is C. T. King,
The Asquith Parliament, 1906-1909; a Popular
History of its Men and Measures (London, 1910). A
valuable article is E. Porritt, British Legislation
in 1906, in _Yale Review_, Feb., 1907. A French
work of some value is P. Millet, La crise anglaise
(Paris, 1910). A useful collection of speeches on
the public issues of the period 1906-1909 is W. S.
Churchill, Liberalism and the Social Problem
(London, 1909).]

*168. The Liberal Triumph: the Elections of December, 1910.*--The
developments of the ensuing year and a half have been sketched
elsewhere.[228] They comprised, in the main: (1) the re-introduction
and the enactment of the Finance Bill of 1909: (2) the bringing
forward by Mr. Asquith of the Government's proposals relative to (p. 161)
the alteration of relations between the two houses of Pa