When the debate was resumed on Wednesday, Mr. Samuel re-
viewed the domestic policy of the Government, and said that the results had not justified the new form of administration by a large number of Ministers working each by himself under a War Cabinet. Mr. Boner Law, in reply, contended that the Government had done a groat deal. He mentioned that last year we added eight hundred and twenty thousand men to the Army, that we have brought one million two hundred -thousand -acres of grass under the plough and increased our wheat stocks by two million quarters, and that by a more careful use of our shipping we have made each vessel on an average bring into the country nearly fifty per cent. more cargo than it would have done before. " I have no more interest in this Prime Minister than I had in the last," said Mr. Boner Law, in one of his characteristic asides ; he went on to say that he had served both loyally, and wanted both of them to have fair play. The War Cabinet system had, he thought, brought greater unity of control than the old Cabinet. If the House of Commons felt that the work could be better done by others, -it should get rid of the present Government. Mr. Boner Law certainly defended the Government in right gallant style, as every one admitted who heard the speech.
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