15 JULY 1922, Page 3

We have written at length, elsewhere, about the problem of

the Canadian cattle embargo, but we must record here the most interesting and encouraging debate which took place in the House of Lords on Wednesday. Lord Chaplin moved a resoluticti that the removal of the embargo on Canadian store-cattle would be " a fatal blow to the prosperity of English agriculture." Lord Lincolnshire, on the other hand, called upon the Government to redeem their pledge of 1917 to lift the embargo. The Lord Chancellor announced that the Government had decided to leave the question to the free decision of both Houses. He himself was in favour of lifting the embargo, and he had given a promise to that effect in 1918.