However, I had to come to Billsbury, nilly-willy. Met the Committee after dinner. They were anxious that I should do some canvassing soon, and wanted me, when next I spoke, to explain myself more fully (1) on the Temperance Question and the question of Compensation to Publicans; (2) on the Women's Suffrage Question; (3) on the Labour Question; (4) on Foreign Policy; and (5) with reference to the Billsbury Main Drainage Scheme. I said I would, but I should probably require more than one speech to do it in. Afterwards a very solemn member of the Committee, whose name I forget, got up and made a long speech, in which he observed that my habit of appearing in dress clothes at the meetings had annoyed a good many of my supporters, and that he ventured to suggest to me, for my own good, that I should wear ordinary dress. It seems a good many of the lower lot thought it looked uppish. I'm glad enough not to have to do it any more. There were other points, but I'm too tired to remember them. By the way, I have subscribed to about a dozen more Clubs and Institutions, and have promised to get Mother to open a bazaar here at the end of the month. Back to London to-morrow. What a life! * * * * * THE LATEST "LABOR PROGRAM." (_BY A NEW-UNIONIST._) I am all for myself, and 'tis perfectly true That the "labor" I love is regardless of "u." But, _per contra_, informing my "program" you see Though I wink (with two I's), I eliminate "me." * * * * * [Illustration: POLITICAL BOATING-PARTY DURING THE RECESS. (_By Our Own Instantaneous Photographer_.)] * * * * * IN A LOCK.--A WHITSUNTIDE WARBLE.