iled to make Mr. BONAR LAW'S flesh creep.

Mr. BALDWIN is the least perturbable of Ministers. Even when Major
EDWARDS invited him to elucidate the phrase "a working knowledge of
the Welsh language"--"Does it mean having an intimate acquaintance
with the literary works of DAFYDD AP GWILYM or the forgeries of 'Iolo
Morganwg'?"--he never turned a hair.

Modesty not having hitherto been regarded as one of Mr. CHURCHILL'S
most salient characteristics I feel it my duty to record that, on
being asked when he would introduce the Supplementary Army Estimates,
he replied, "I am entirely in the hands of my superiors."

_Wednesday, December 1st._--That Hebrew should be one of the official
languages of Palestine seems, on the face of it, not unreasonable.
But, according to Lord TREOWEN, to compel the average Palestinian Jew,
who speaks either Spanish or Yiddish, to use classical Hebrew, will
be like obliging a user of pidgin English to adopt the language
of ADDISON. He failed, however, to make any impression upon Lord
CRAWFORD, who expressed the hope that the Government's action would
help to purify the language. Sir HERBERT SAMUEL is determined, I
gather, to make Palestine a country fit for rabbis to live in.

The Government of Ireland Bill had a very rough time in Committee. The
LORD CHANCELLOR managed to ward off Lord MIDLETON's proposal to have
one Parliament instead of two--"a blow at the heart of the Bill"--but
was less successful when Lord ORANMORE AND BROWNE moved that the
Southern Parliament should be furnished with a Senate. The Peers'
natural sentiment in favour of Second Chambers triumphed, and the
Government were defeated by a big majority.

The Office of Works has been lending a hand to local authorities in
difficulties with their housing schemes. But when Sir ALFRED MOND
brought up a Supplementary Estimate in respect of these transactions
he met with a storm of indignation that surprised him. "The road to
bankruptcy," "Nationalisation in the building trade," "Socialistic
proposals"--these were some of the phrases that assailed his ears.
Fortified, however, by the support of the Labour Party--Mr. MYERS
declared that his action had been "the one bright spot in the whole of
the housing policy"--Sir ALFRED challenged his critics to go and tell
their constituents that they had voted to prevent houses being built,
and got his Estimate through by 190 to 64.

_Thursday, December 2nd._--Thanks to the free-and-easy proced