In the Lords on Thursday Lord Lansdowne, Lord Onslow, and
other Opposition Peers subjected the Memorandum of evidence as to allotments and small holdings on which the Premier relied in his Holborn speech to detailed and damaging criticism. Lord Carrington, in a speech which will not add to bis reputation as a serious politician, after declaring that there was not a single person on the Ministerial side who could find fault with a single word in Lord Lansdowne speech, and that Lord Lansdowne had made out a very good case from his point of view, ingenuously admitted that the Memorandum was only intended to give one side of the case. We may note that Lord Lansdowne made it clear that the Small Holdings Bill would be considered in an amicable spirit by the Opposi- tion, and that his guarded but friendly assurances were cordially acknowledged by Lord Carrington and Lord Ripon.
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