It is a great honour still, I am sure, to be a member of the British House of Commons. Lord Rosebery, when he was chairman of the London County Council, in a speech that he made--and I dare say many of you have been interested in some of Lord Rosebery's speeches because he has a fund of humour, and very often one is not quite certain whether he is in earnest or in jest--once said that the position of a town councillor is much more important than that of a member of Parliament. It is quite possible that an individual member of a County Council or a Town Council may be more important as an individual than a member of the House of Commons, but his vote can only mainly affect the locality, whilst the action of a member of the House of Commons may not only affect the whole of Great Britain, but the whole of the British Empire. So I venture to think the position of a Member of Parliament is a little more important than that of a member of a Town Council or a County Council. _Monmouthshire County Council, February 2nd, 1910._ NELSON'S SAYING. There still exists in the bosoms of our public men the feeling which animated Lord Nelson before the battle of the Nile, when he said, "To-morrow I shall have either a peerage or Westminster Abbey." _Press Dinner, Cardiff, May 9th, 1891._ THE DISADVANTAGES OF THE PEERAGE. [Illustration: "_Receiving eggs that are not fit for breakfast, and cats that have not received honourable interment._"] There are advantages and disadvantages in belonging to the House of Lords. The peers are deprived of the right which other citizens have of standing on the hustings and receiving eggs that are not fit for breakfast and cats that have not received honourable interment. But they have the privilege of British citizens of being roundly abused by those whose talents lay in that direction. _Associated Chambers of Commerce, Newport, Sept. 21st, 1892._ SWEEPS AS PEERS. [Illustration: "_I am acquainted with some sweeps._"]