The debate on Candahar in the Lords ended on Friday
night. in the expected vote against the Governments the numbers being 165 to 76. As the House of COMITIOns and the country are on the other side, the vote is of no importance, except in so. far as it may be misinterpreted in Foreign States as a sign of division of opinion. We have noticed the speeches of Lord. Beaconsfield and Lord Granville elsewhere, and need only say here that Lord Cranbrook made a long speech of the blatant kind, which does not read so good as its audience thought it s. and that the Duke of Argyll spoke as well as a man could speak who had. previously exhausted the whole subject. The result. was an almost strictly party vote, only Lords Houghton,. Waveuey, and Brabourno deserting the Liberals, while. the Marquis of Bath and Lord Chelmsford voted with the Government. A party vote in the Lords is always, and must always be, against Liberal policy, a fact which, but that the Peers usually efface themselves on important subjects, would have serious results. If such votes were often given, the expediency of continuing a House which can never be in accord with the people, except when the people is in a momentary mood of reaction, would become one of practical politics. At present, the Land Leaguers interest the universe more than the Lords.
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