During the last two days discussion was allowed somewhat needlessly under the new rules, to roam at large over all manner of irrelevant subjects, but on this occasion it served at least one useful purpose.

If it were not that the Bengalee politician has no other grievance to substitute for it, the question of the Partition of Bengal should, one would think, have received its _quietus_, for two excellent speeches, delivered with much simple force by Maulvi Syed Shams ul Huda, Mahomedan member for Eastern Bengal, and by Mr.Mazhar-ul-Haq, another Mahomedan who sits for Bengal, completed the discomfiture which poor Mr.
Bose had already experienced at Mr.Lyon's hands.
Needless to say that amongst the Indian members it was the politician, and especially the more "advanced" politician, who figured most prominently in the discussions.

The more conservative Indians were usually content to listen, with more or less visible signs of weariness, to the facile and sometimes painfully long-winded eloquence of their colleagues.

When they did intervene, however, their speeches were usually short and none the less effective.

In most of the divisions that were taken they supported the Government, and in no single instance was the Government majority hard pressed.