PLAYING THE GAME.
[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "seserevos.."1 Sia,—If Ministers are not content to play the game in the English fashion, voting in the House of Commons might as well be abolished. If an adverse vote is to be set aside at once it would save a great deal of time and useless talking if Government motions, &c., were put and declared to be carried forthwith. What would be said if the stewards of the Jockey Club, for example, were to declare the " Derby " must be run again because an outsider had won it, though known to be utterly inferior to the favourite and many other horses ? Is the House of Commons to be asked to vote again another day on every occasion when a Government proposal is rejected P I do not suggest that the Government ought to resign because of the late adverse vote, but I do see reason for Englishmen accepting a defeat with a good grace and taking the consequences as sportsmen should do, instead of trying by dubious methods to get round the difficulties which
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