APPLYING FOR THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS.
Quite a procession of new Members took their seats on election. Honours of the day with Harry Lawson, who, after stubborn fight, has won Cirencester. As young Harry, with his beaver on, marched to table, Liberals temporarily relieved themselves from imputation that they don't know how to cheer.
Business done.—Local Veto Bill brought in.
Tuesday Night.—"It's a natural temptation," said Charles Russell, "for the human mind to believe that Mr. G.'s latest performance at table of House of Commons excels all he has done before. There is a phrase—you are probably familiar with it in Horace—which speaks of the Laudator temporis acti. But the other impulse is certainly, in this connection, quite as strong, I, therefore, hesitate to affirm that that's the best speech Mr. G. ever made; but certainly it's among the best."
