The Heads of Boards are all perplexed; My premier's mind is sorely vexed; In trouble all are wrapt.

I know lots of the Premier's speeches right off.

"Mr. Neelands would like to hear you do that one of the Premier's, when he laid the cornerstone, about 'the generations yet unborn.'

" While Peter was taking his departure, and before he had reached the front gate, one of the many bells which flanked the Premier's table was wildly rung.

It was the Premier's own, and a howl of recognition came from the audience, beginning in the Cabinet Minister's box.

She was in the Premier's most playful, God-bless-you mood, and simply radiated favors and goodwill.

Many of the audience had heard the Premier's speech, and almost all had read it, so not a point was lost.

" The audience gasped at thatfor in the Premier's own riding, there were names on the voters' lists, taken, it was alleged, from the tombstones.

The Premier's face darkened; her eyebrows came down suddenly; the veins in her neck swelled, and a perfect fury of words broke from her lips.

The ex-Premier's wife arose as if to leave, but he motioned her to stay.

* The terms of the Turkish treaty are not only a breach of the Premier's pledge, not only a sin against the principle of self-determination, but they also show a reckless indifference of the Allied Powers towards the Koranic injunctions.

THE PREMIER'S REPLY The English mail has brought us a full and official report of the Premier's speech which he recently made when he received the Khilafat deputation.

This detraction of the Sultan's suzerainty is only a corollary of the Premier's indifference towards the Muslim idea of the Caliphate.

But he was one of the most efficient of the premier's lieutenants, a tried and faithful follower, a disciple, indeed,as was Peel himself of Canning, and Canning of Pitt.

Gross licentiousness was the order of the day, and Sir Robert was among the most licentious; he left his lovely wife to the perilous attentions of all the young courtiers who fancied that by courting the Premier's wife they could secure Walpole's good offices.

On this innocent phrase the eye of M. Clemenceau fell the other day, and he now flings off a characteristic three-and-a-half-column front-page salvo so adroitly combining the premier's remark with the actual, pitiful facts that the reader almost feels that "intensifying" the suffering of parents and friends of men fighting for their country is something in which the present government takes delight.

" "Weekly Dispatch" Report of Premier's Speech.

The same suggestion had been fruitlessly made half a dozen times before; but the Premier's manner was irresistible, and amid great laughter the motion prevailed.

I know no better illustration to prove the justice of this view of the Premier's political failing than his bearing in the debate which I am attempting to describe.

The Premier's defence of, and, we may perhaps say, recomposition of his Paris oration before the House of Commons has appeased criticism without entirely convincing those who have been anxious to know how the Allied Council would work, and what would be the relations between the Council's military advisers and the existing General Staff of the countries concerned.

In spite of the Premier's warning the Pacificists made another futile attempt on the very next day to convince the House that the Germans were ready to make an honest peace if only our Government would listen to it.

The Covenant of the League of Nations, though in a diluted form, had at last taken shape, the Peace Machine had got a move on, and the Premier's spirited, if not very dignified, retaliation on the newspaper snipers led to an abatement of unnecessary hostilities, though the pastime of shooting policemen with comparative impunity still flourished in Ireland, and the numbers and cost of our "army of inoccupation" still continued to increase.

This worthy soul narrates with artless candour that towards the end of Lord Beaconsfield's second Administration he had the honour of dining with the great man, whose political follower he was, at the Premier's official residence in Downing Street.

In view of the heavy demands upon the Premier's time it is suggested in Parliamentary circles that Major Archer-Shee should consent to act as his substitute.

" The Premier's Puzzle.