8 APRIL 1911, Page 3

The Lord-Advocate, replying to the toast of "the Houses of

Parliament" at a dinner at Dundee on Saturday, paid an extraordinary tribute to the efficiency of the House of Lords. It might, he said, be indefensible on paper and yet work well in practice, and he refused to rail at an institution which, honestly speaking, he had very few faults to find with. Warming to his theme, Mr. 17re went on to say that he did not know of a Second Chamber in the world which did its work so well as our Second Chamber. Unless the Government have decided to drop the Preamble, it is hard to account for this strange eulogium.