_Thursday, March 30th._--In the Lords to-day Viscount TEMPLETOWN moved that London should be declared a prohibited area, with a view to removing the eight or nine thousand Germans still carrying on business there. His argument was a little difficult to follow, for it included a complaint that in Eastbourne, which is a prohibited area, a number of aliens are residing in comfort and affluence. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, usually so logical, on this occasion answered inconsequence by inconsequence. In one breath he asserted that to declare the whole of the Metropolis a prohibited area would throw too much work on the police; and in the next that it would have the effect of driving away large numbers of aliens to places not so well policed as London is. Lord BERESFORD caught the infection. In the course of a long question designed to clear General TOWNSHEND of the responsibility for the advance upon Bagdad, he remarked with startling irrelevance that if his (Lord BERESFORD's) advice had been taken by the PRIME MINISTER the _Lusitania_ would still be afloat and we should have lost no battleships in the Dardanelles. He did not appear to attach undue importance to this claim, and Lord ISLINGTON, who replied for the Government, did not think it necessary to make any reference to it, but contented himself with stating that the Bagdad advance was authorised on the advice of General NIXON and the Indian Government, and professing official ignorance of any representations on the part of General TOWNSHEND. In the Commons the trouble on the Clyde was the _piece de resistance_. At Question time Mr. LLOYD GEORGE, fresh from the Paris Conference, had to deal with a number of inquiries put by the little group of Scottish malcontents whose notion of patriotism is to embarrass the Government on each and every occasion. Mr. HOGGE wanted to know when the MINISTER OF MUNITIONS was going to give the other side of the case--"the German side," as an interrupter pertinently put it; and Mr. PRINGLE intimated that a settlement could have been reached but for the unreasonableness of the Government. This gave Dr. ADDISON, usually the mildest-mannered man that ever lanced a gumboil, an opportunity of administering to big accuser a much-needed lesson in deportment. The hon. Member had first forced himself, without invitation, into a private conversation in the Minister's room, and had then given a totally misleading account of what took place. He had made himself the spokesman of a body which had displayed "a treacherous disregard of the highest national interests."