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We have dealt elsewhere with Mr. Balfour's speeches in regard

to the state of the Navy, and also with Colonel Churchill's amazing intervention in the debate. It remains only to refer to the well-merited castigation which Colonel Churchill received at the hands of Mr. Balfour on Wednesday night. Mr. Balfour, after pointing out that his predecessor had "engaged in the congenial task of showing how well he had done and how ill his successor had done," and had exhibited "his deliberate desire to suggest doubts, fears, and alarms," stated that the only consolation was that Colonel Churchill "had not done so much injury to the public interest as he would have done if his charges had been well founded."

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