In the House of Lords on Wednesday Lord Crawford moved
that the Committee be instructed to strike out of the Croydon Corporation• Bill all-powers which might be used- for the - destruction of Whitgift Hospital.- The House of Lords notoriously has not the passion of the House of Commons, but when it strikes in a good cause— when its indignation is aroused—it knows how to strike hard. On Wednesday there was passion indeed, and we heartily congratulate the House of Lords upon it. If the Croydon Corporation has a sense of shame it must be hanging its head. Lord Crawford asked the un- answerable question why, if the Corporation wanted to relieve the traffic, it did not pull down that ostentatious public-house of sickly gamboge hue which stands opposite the hospital. The Archbishop of Canterbury spoke movingly, for he has now been long enough in office to have appointed every inmate of the hospital except one. Other speeches denouncing the proposed vandalism and pillorying the Corporation are too numerous to mention. In the end the motion was carried, and the hospital is apparently saved.
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