The Sempronian Law.--The senate agreed that no hasty cision should be come to on this matter and the debate was adjourned for a fuller meeting._?乳the House. There was another pressing.明estion to be旦e甲t邓th. The citizens were suffering from money-lenders, and though numerous laws had been made in restraint of avarice they were evaded the fraudulent transferring of the bills to subjects ied States who were not bound by these laws. In this way debtors were being overwhelmed by unlimited interest. After a discussion as to the best method of checking this practice it was decided to fix a date. and all members of the allied btates who had after that date lent money to Roman citizens were required to make a return of the amounts so lent, and the debtor was to be at liberty to choose under which laws the creditor might exercise his rights. The appointed day was that of the Feralia, which had just been celebrated.' From the returns sent in it was found that the debts contracted under this fraudulent system amounted to a considerable sum, and M. Sempronius, one- of the tribunes of the plebs, was authorised by the senate to propose a measure, which the plebs adopted, providing that debts contracted with members of the Latin and allied communities should come under the same laws as those contracted with Roman citizens. These were the main military and political events in Italy. In Spain the war was by no means so serious as rumqur represented. C. Flaminius in Hither Spain took the fortified town of Inlucia in the country of the Oretani. He then withdrew his troops into winter quarters, and during the winter several unimportant actions were fought to repel raiding parties, who resembled banditti rather than hostile troops. He was not alwavs successiul. however. ana sustainea losses. more important operations were carried on by M. Fulvius. He fought a pitched battle near Toletum with a combined force of Vaccaci, Vettones and Celtiberians, defeated and routed them and took Hilernus their king prisoner.