_Thursday._--All very well for gay young Irish baronet like ESMONDE to champion cause of errant Queens throned in summer seas. Expected other things from THE MACGREGOR. House quite shocked when he interposed just now. ESMONDE asked EDWARD GREY whether Government could do anything to obtain proper treatment for Queen of Hawaii. Before Under Secretary could reply, THE MACGREGOR, suddenly leaping across dyke as it were, interposed. "As I happen to know the lady who was formerly Queen of Hawaii," said THE MACGREGOR, and so proceeded to back up ESMONDE'S plea. Offhand way in which reference was made suggested illimitable possibilities, THE MACGREGOR just "happened to know" this Queen, probably one of a bevy. On some quiet night House might hope to hear paper read by THE MACGREGOR on "Queens I Have Known." SARK curiously anxious as to where the acquaintance was made, and how it was nurtured. Did THE MACGREGOR vaccinate Her Majesty whilst he, still in public capacity, sojourned at Penrith? Was she an inmate of Peebles Hydropathic Institute what time he was resident physician? or did he minister to her at the Barnhill Hospital and Asylum, Glasgow, of which, before he took to Imperial politics, he was superintendent? Pleasanter still to think of THE MACGREGOR and the Queen with the musical name wandering hand in hand amid the orange groves of sea-girt Hawaii, breakfasting on the bountiful bread-fruit, lunching off the succulent yam. Did he in those days call her so much as LILIUOKALANI? or did he venture on the diminutive LILI? SARK had better give notice of these questions. _Business done._--Fresh Ministerial Bills brought in with both hands. _Friday._--Another private Members' night, and, by consequence, another count out. Things kept going till a quarter to eight, but only with utmost difficulty. Members consented to stay in prospect of division on ALBERT ROLLIT'S motion protesting against exemption of Government property from rating. But they would not longer linger. When LUBBOCK followed, with proposal of pleasant chat about London's share of imperial contribution to local purposes, the few remaining Members, vainly trying to look as if they'd be "back in ten minutes," walked out. House counted; only twenty-five present, and so home to dinner. "Yes, yes," said WALTER LONG, left in charge of Front Opposition Bench, "but this won't prevent us on Monday, when SQUIRE OF MALWOOD proposes to take Tuesday and Friday mornings for public business, stubbornly resisting piratical incursion on the rights of private Members. Whatever we are, let us be logical." _Business done._--Ministerial defeat on ROLLIT'S amendment averted by majority of one. * * * * * THE BATTLE OF EASTBOURNE. Natis in usum lætitiæ rosis Pugnare Eastbourni est. HORACE (_slightly emended_).