Mr Labouchere, in the debate on the address in the House of Commons made t!ie following remarks upon the position of Mr Chamberlain and the dissentient Liberals: —The position of dissentient Liberals in the House was sufficiently humiliating, but not so humiliating as the pos'« tiou of the Government, who were obliged to bow the knee to tho Whigs.—(Hear, hear.) He looked upon the noble lord the Chancellor of the Exchequer as a sort of a Sinbad with tho Whigs upon his back, and he wished him joy of them. He himself was always in favour of a fatted-calf policy, and if the dissentients would come- back the rest of the party would bo ready to receive them with open arms. But he did not think that the Prodigal Son would have been well received if he had come with a band of his prodigal companions to knock in his father's house.—(Laughter.) Not long ago the member for West Birmingham denounced the noble lord the member for Rossendale as a Rip van Winkle ; and • the noble lord the member for Rossendale pointed out that the member for West Birming ham was little better than a bandit.—(Laughter.) He was very curious to know what concessions on the one sido or the other had brought these two hon. members together. He deplored the fall of the member for West Birmingham.— (Laughter.) He thought the right hon. geutle mau was worthy of better things than to become a mere Whig henchman and to elaborate policies for tho Liberal party in a ducal drawing room (Laughter aud cheers.) Fucilis deseensus Averni— (laughter)—aud ho! hoped the right hon. gentleman would pause in his downward career. If not, the next thing that would be heaid of would be that the right hon. gentle man had been gazetted Lord Chamberlain— (laughter)—and was claiming to be descended from tho Sire de Chamberlain, who came in with the Sire de Brassey at the Conquest.
