MCCURDY dropped the remark that
it was impossible to control cream, owing, no doubt, to its notorious
insurrectionary tendencies; and Colonel WEIGALL removed a load of
suspicion from some of our minds by the emphatic declaration that "a
cow was not a pump, of which the supply could be turned off or on as
one liked."
The FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS was not very hopeful about the removal
of the buildings which disfigure the Parks. The most he could say
was that he was doing his best to get the camouflage school out of
Kensington Gardens, and let nature have a chance.
_Tuesday, May 13th_.--The Lords defeated the Government by inserting
in the Ministry of Health Bill a provision that the new Minister
should have only one Parliamentary Secretary. In vain Lord SANDHURST
protested that the amendment would tie the PRIME MINISTER'S hands.
Lord MIDLETON was delighted to think that it would. Lord CREWE
declared that the creation of minor Ministers was becoming a disease
(possibly the Ministry of Health will include it among "notifiable"
epidemics?). Lord BLEDISLOE quoted the old tag about big fleas and
little fleas.
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