Gathering together the scattered and somewhat tangled threads of the debate, he put to Mr.Mundella several pertinent questions--among others, the very relevant one, whether or not the Shipping Federation had the right to employ sailors, whether they are not violating the law against "crimping" in so doing.

Incidentally, Mr.
Lockwood remarked, amid cheers from the Radical Benches--delighted at this opportunity of departing from its painful and embarrassed silence--that Liberal members had been returned to support the cause of labour, and that they ought to be true to their pledges.

Mr.Gladstone at once grasped the situation with that unerring instinct which he has displayed so splendidly in the present Session, and at once undertook that the point raised by Mr.Lockwood should be considered; and so, with a word of sympathy and hope to the strikers, Mr.Gladstone rescued the House and himself from a painful situation..