Unfortunately the Standing Orders of the House of Representatives will not permit an} teference to statements made in the Legislative Council, so Mr Dodson’s motion was out of order. The fact remains that a serious charge has been made against a large and respectable body of men, who naturally enough feel deeply the stigma which has beeu cast upon them. Our legislators may some times threaten to punch one another’s heads, but use bad language—never ! Mr M. W. Green has managed to get through a whole week without making the slightest reference to his conscience. It is to be hoped, however, that the silent monitor is still at work, and that the honorable member for Dunedin East has not sunk to the moral level of his political associates. For some unaccountable reason there ap pears to be a disposition among hon. members to laugh at Mr M. W. Green. The other evening, when he moved the second reading of his Hawkers and Pedlars Bill without a word of explanation, he was accused of a want of courtesy to the House, and during a debate that ensued several unkind allusions were made to his usual prolixity. Mr Green at once denied the soft impeachment, and declared that he only spoke at considerable length when great questions were before the Honse, and when he was in search of Truth. Why this statement should have caused a laugh it is difficult to explain,

The debate on the Law Practitioners Bill a few evenings ago was a most amusing one, and showed that “ the Devil’s Own” have very few friends in the House. The great learning that is generally associated in the public mind with the practice and administration of the law was denounced as mere humbug and pre tence, and lawyers were given credit for very little else than a desire to extort money from their unhappy clients. Classical education was denounced as useless on all sides in very questionable English, and the advocates of mental cultivation and refinement were simply nowhere. The debate was an instructive one, however, from many points of view. Jit is not at all surprising that the collective wisdom of such an august assembly as the House of Representatives should sometimes throw an entirely new light upon matters of history, and invest old stories with quite anew interest. 