Do you suggest that I should turn my back on myself? _No, that would be rude._ Or give myself away? _Nay, that were--unthrifty._ Can two solid things occupy the same space at the same time? _By Zeus, no!_ Home-Rule--a _very_ solid thing--fully occupies my mind--for the present. When a Gladstone-bag is _full_, can you put more into it? _By Mercury, no! But could you not reconsider the packing!_ Not if the contents consist of _one_ article only. You would like me to pack it with your Eight Hours' Bill? _Prodigiously! Your strong personality, would push forward even a worse thing._ How near are you to unanimity? _As near as considerable difference of opinion will allow us to come._ Is an unascertained minority to coerce an unwilling majority? _Our Council has not discussed that?_ Do you know the relative proportions of majority and majority in organised and unorganised trades; how their respective opinions are to be ascertained, and, if ascertained, how legally enforced; if, and how, two millions and a half are to commit eleven millions to certain binding laws, and involve them in legal consequences? _No! Yes! Hardly! Not quite! More or less! Well, we're not quite sure, &c., &c._ _Socrates_ (_smiling_). Now, tell me, THRASYMACHUS, is _this_ the "harmony, or, as it were, unity of action," on which only, as we agreed, we could found "the principle of permanency in a state or community?" _Thrasymachus-Shiptonides_ (_hurriedly_). Well, what you say, SOCRATES, is very nice, and clear, and logical, and conclusive, in an argumentative sense, and your attitude is very noble and high-and-mighty--I mean highminded and all that. And we're _very_ grateful--but deeply disappointed that you couldn't say something quite different--_in view of the General Election, you know!_ (_Meaningly._) _Socrates_ (_mildly, but firmly_). It is not my political duty to say pleasant things all round, but to ascertain--and tell--the Truth. _All_ (_deferentially_). Well, we are all _tremendously_ thankful! (_aside_) for small mercies! Logic scores in argument, but votes tell at the poll. And if we do not run at least a hundred Labour Candidates to enlighten you as to our "unanimity," call us--items! [_Exeunt._ * * * * * _Matinées_ of _Peril_ are advertised at the Haymarket. Most _Matinées_ deserve this description. * * * * * THE ARCHDEACON ANSWERED. [At the Annual Meeting of the Curates' Augmentation Fund, Archdeacon KAYE, of Lincoln, urged the desirability of imposing some limitation to the number ordained to the Ministry of the Church of England, as three-fifths of the Clergy were in poverty.] "Oh, sad indeed it is to think," Quoth good Archdeacon KAYE, "That though our Clergy are so 'High,' So low should be their pay! "They fly to money-lenders' lures, To speculative chances; Advancement they appear to lack. And so they get advances.