Of other speakers I say but little. I came in during the dinner hour to see a very little man with what we call in Ireland a "cocked" nose, a conceited mouth, and a curious mixture of the unctuousness and benedictory manner of the pulpit and the limp twitterings of the curate at a ladies' tea-fight. This was the head of the Bishop of Ripon. I cannot stare for even a second at this tiny tomtit and artificial figure, with all those lawn sleeves and black gowns, and all the other fripperies and draperies of the parson-peer, who is to every rational man so grotesque and contemptible an intruder in a legislative chamber. In the grim and crowded gallery of the personages of an Irish Epic, such an intruder is like the thin piping note of a tiny bird mid the carnage and shouts and roars of a battle-field. Everybody knows the result of the division: for the Bill, 41; against, 419; majority, 378. It was a conclusion that was foregone, but the Lords themselves recognized the comic futility of it. The attempted cheers ended in one loud, mocking, universal laugh. And thus the curtain fell on the historic drama of the great Home Rule Session. T.P. THE END. INDEX. Address, the; 17-30 Agriculture; 24-28 Alarm, a false; 185-6 Anarchy, the unloosing of; 166-7 Allan, Mr.; 258 Apology, Mr. H. Fisher's; 250-1 ---- a lame; 251-2 Argyll, the Duke of; 275-6 Asquith, H.H.; 15, 42, 46, 52, 128-30, 185 ---- A splendid speech; 28-9 ---- Advocate rather than Minister; 28 ---- as Leader; 148 ---- and the miners; 162 Austin in the fight, Mr.; 249 Baiting the lion; 78 Bannerman, Campbell- (see Campbell-Bannerman). Balfour, A.J.; 29, 77, 86, 126, 141, 178, 183-6, 195, 204, 211, 224-5, 231, 234, 239, 266-7 ---- Independent of tradition; 17 ---- and Sir John Gorst; 26 ---- and Home Rule; 37 ---- attacks the chairman; 65 ---- and Churchill deadly foes; 72-3 ---- and Chamberlain unfriendly; 73 ---- and resident magistrates; 94 ---- and the Vote of Censure; 104-5 ----'s sensitiveness; 106 ---- limp; 128-9 ---- and Gladstone; 195, 196 ---- the unready; 215-6 Bartlett, Ashmead; 123-4 Bartley, G.T.C.; 55, 57, 200-1, 258 ----'s character; 54 Barton and Dunbar; 117, 148-9 Beach, Sir Michael Hicks (see Hicks-Beach). Beaufoy, M.H.; 17 Belfast Catholics, The attack on; 147-9 Biggar, Mr., a reminiscence; 98-9 Bills, bringing in; 13-4 Bimetallism; 55, 57, 200-1 Birrell, Augustin; 116-7 Bolton, T.; 268 Bowles, Gibson; 64, 258 ---- and the fight; 249 Brodrick, Mr. St. John; 237-9 Bryce Mr. J., and Home Rule; 38 ---- and Mr. Gladstone; 181-2 Bryne, Mr.; 189 Budget, The; 146-7, 151-2 Bullet in Downing Street, the; 153-5 Burnie, Mr.; 258 Burns, John; 163 ----'s appearance; 16, 62 ---- and Lowther; 65 ---- and Chamberlain; 196 ---- and the fight; 249 ---- A triumph for Mr.; 259-60 ---- in fighting form; 266-7 Bursting of the cyclone, the; 248-9 Burt, "Tommy"; 150-1 Byles, W.P.; 69