inion, only excited ribald laughter.

His inquiry whether the Recess could start three days earlier, in
order that Members might take advantage of the Epsom carnival to
study the social habits of the people and form an opinion as to the
possibility of raising revenue from taxes on racing and betting, was
in better vein, and reminded old Members of the days when Lord ELCHO
(now Lord WEMYSS) used annually to delight the House with his views on
the Derby adjournment. Entering into the spirit of the jest, Mr. BONAR
LAW replied that he regretted that his honourable friend should be put
to inconvenience, but he must do what we all have to do at times,
and decide whether his duty lay at Epsom or Westminster. From Mr.
BOTTOMLEY'S rejoinder one gathered that he had already made up his
mind, and that Epsom had it.

_Wednesday, May 28th_.--Colonel WEDGWOOD'S complaint that aeroplanes
were used to disperse rioters in India was ostensibly based on the
fact that, like the gentle rain from heaven, bombs fell alike on the
just and the unjust, but really, I fancy, on what I gather to be
his rapidly-growing belief that any anarchist is preferable to any
Government. Mr. MONTAGU, however, declined to interfere with the use
of a weapon which for the moment has greatly strengthened the hands
of the Indian Administration in dealing with disorder, whether on the
frontiers or in the cities.

The Ministry of Labour has lately introduced a course of domestic
training for "wives and fiancees." The indefiniteness of the latter
term offended Captain LOSEBY, who wanted to know at what exact period
of "walking-out" a lady became a fiancee. Mr. WARDLE, although the
author of a work on "Problems of the Age," confessed that this one
baffled him, and asked for notice.

The recent disturbance in the neighbourhood of the House by indiscreet
friends of the unemployed soldier led to a rambling debate, chiefly
remarkable for the hard things said by and about Mr. HOGGE, whose aim,
according to ex-Private HOPKINSON, was to make soldiers uncomfortable;
and for a hopeful speech by Sir ROBERT HORNE, who said that,
despite the "dole," unemployment was beginning to diminish, and that
four-fifths of the "demobbed" had already been reabsorbed by industry.

Then followed a lively but inconclusive discussion upon that hardy
annual, the alleged sale of honours. General PAGE CROFT attributed it
to the secrecy of party funds and proudly declared that the. National
Par