MR. DEVLIN.]

So far as one could gather, the Bill is the outcome of a quarrel
between the College of Nurses and the rest of the profession. Who
shall decide when nurses disagree?

In Committee on the Bill for enabling women to become Justices of the
Peace Lord STRACHIE moved to restrict the privilege to those who
have "attained the age of thirty years." The LORD CHANCELLOR strongly
resisted the limitation on the ground that the Government are pledged
to establish "equality between the sexes." He was supported by Lord
BEAUCHAMP, who, however, thought it unlikely that any ladies under
that age would in fact be appointed. I am not so sure. Who knows but
that some day the Woolsack may be tenanted by a really susceptible
Chancellor?

There are limits to the credulity of the House of Commons. Mr.
BOTTOMLEY'S assertion that many clergymen did not know whether they
might marry a woman to her deceased husband's brother, and had written
to him for an authoritative opinion, 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