Towards the end of the evening Mr.Chamberlain had come down and joined in the fray--lending his authority to tactics which usually had been left to the rag-tag and bobtail of all parties.

As I have already said, this kind of intervention had seriously diminished Mr.Chamberlain in the respect of the House.

And the way in which he did his work was venomous as well as petty.

The vote under discussion was a Supplemental Estimate for Light Railways in Ireland.

Everybody knows that light railways were the policy of the late and not of the present Government.