But what is one to do if it is merely squalling in a perambulator? * * * * * [Illustration: SOMETHING TO GO ON WITH. PRESIDENT WILSON (_to German Eagle_). "POOR OLD BIRD! DID IT SAY IT WAS BEING STARVED? WELL, HERE'S A NICE SQUARE MEAL FOR IT."] * * * * * ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. [Illustration: FIRST STEPS TO VICTORY (_continued_). (_Quartette of Legal Members of Committee of Inquiry into the Administration of the Royal Flying Corps_). _Messrs. A, B, C and D in consultation, all talking together._ "THE CONTRIVANCE IN FRONT, BY REVOLVING, PRODUCES MOMENTUM. DO I CARRY YOU WITH ME?" "MY LEARNED FRIENDS MUST ADMIT THAT THE PILOT HAS AN _A PRIORI_ RIGHT TO THE FRONT SEAT AND A LIEN ON ALL PETROL." "MY CLIENTS DENY BUILDING THE MACHINE; AND IF THEY DID SO THEY DID IT IN GOOD FAITH AND IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST." "I SUBMIT THAT THOSE PREMISES SITUATE BEHIND THE ENGINE SHOULD BE PAINTED OUTSIDE IN FOUR GOOD COATS OF OIL COLOUR EVERY THREE YEARS, AND BE IN ALL RESPECTS KEPT IN GOOD AND TENANTABLE REPAIR, ETC., ETC., ETC."] * * * * * _Monday, May 8th._--It was a relief to pass from the sombre theme of judgment passed on Irish rebels to the quiet humours of Daylight-Saving. Sir HENRY NORMAN was perhaps a little over-anxious to be playful; and some of his rather ancient jokes gave obvious pain to Mr. PEARCE, who once carried a Daylight-Saving Bill through its second reading without any such frivolous aids. There was little opposition. Sir FREDERICK BANBURY once more appeared in his favourite character of the conscientious objector. He was not on this occasion "the champion of the suffering rich," as Mr. DUKE called him the other day, but the defender of the humble milkman, who already had to rise before dawn for the greater part of the year, and might, I gathered, be subject to unworthy suspicions if he performed his functions before the dew was off the grass. Lord HUGH CECIL, who thought the proposal to put on the clock smacked of "the tricks of the lowest class of journalism," is understood to have been referring to those remarkable examples of advanced literature, the "_6.30 News_" and "_7.0 Star_." The INFANT SAMUEL, as my esteemed predecessor used to call him, disclaimed the idea that he had become "a presumptuous JOSHUA." The Government only supported the proposal because it would help us during the War by saving coal.