The House gave a rather less stentorian welcome than might have been
expected to Sir CHARLES TOWNSHEND, who was escorted up to the Table
by Mr. BOTTOMLEY and Colonel CROFT. Perhaps it was afraid that cheers
intended for the defender of Kut might be appropriated by the Editor
of _John Bull_.
Encouraged, I suppose, by the emptiness of the Ladies' Gallery, it
then proceeded with great freedom to discuss a proposal for the
employment of women and young persons "in shifts."
[Illustration: THE FAT BOY OF DULWICH.