To-night, on Vote on Account, he concentrated his attention on the action of the Foreign Office. Surveying its operations from China to Peru, he was constrained unreservedly to condemn them. Everywhere the British Minister had truckled to the foreigner. The flag of England, which the emigrants in the _Mayflower_ proudly carried with them even in their exile, was dragged through every gutter of foreign capitals. "There never was a time," said SILOMIO, "when this country was so isolated among the nations of Europe." This grand speech echoed through nearly empty House. PRINCE ARTHUR and his colleagues on Front Opposition Bench, as usual, paid their distinguished colleague the highest compliment. They knew he would say the right thing in the right way, at the right time. Whilst he kept the gate no traitor could pass, no harm befall a beloved country. So, with one accord, they went off, leaving CASABIANCA SILOMIO to tread alone the deck, burning with his eloquence. On the benches behind sat only TOMLINSON, who sometimes wishes PRINCE ARTHUR had a little more of SILOMIO'S go; KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN who doesn't think the Knight is quite the model of a country gentleman, but likes to hear him shout at the Government; and Cap'en TOMMY BOWLES, wearing his best Sunday ducks in honour of a sultry day that reminds him faintly of breathless moments spent in the Forties in the Bight of Benin. [Illustration: An Authority on Heraldry! (Mr. Eg-rt-n All-n.)] SILOMIO sat down and mopped the shining top of his patriotic head with a handkerchief hemmed in Germany. The Cap'en, catching the Chairman's eye with the hook that serves in place of the strong right hand cut off by the flashing blade of the Moor whose felucca TOMMY was boarding under the impression it was a ferry-boat, sprang to his feet. "Unthinking diatribes," he called SILOMIO'S noble speech; lamented the effect upon foreign powers of its delivery "by a responsible leader of the party"; and said much else that would have shocked the House had Members chanced to be present. PRINCE ARTHUR, who so acutely felt, and so bitterly resented, GEORGE RUSSELL'S recent sneer at the Patriot Knight, was spared the anguish of the moment by that carefully concerted movement which, happily, calls SILOMIO'S colleagues off the Front Bench when he is about to discourse on Foreign Affairs. _Business done._--Vote on Account agreed to. _Friday._--House met to wind up business previous to Whitsun recess. ALPHEUS CLEOPHAS, always considerate, been thinking over ways of enjoying the holiday. Struck him nothing would be nicer than free admission for M.P.'s and their friends to witness process of vivisection. Put the matter before HOME SECRETARY in his genial way. ASQUITH very sorry, but has no power to give the desired admission. ALPHEUS CLEOPHAS a little depressed, but went off with the consciousness that he had at least done his best.