§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. W. E. GLADSTONE,) Edinburgh, MidlothianI desire, Sir, to make a personal explanation. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham stated yesterday that in a speech which I delivered in Liverpool in June, 1886, I declared my dissent from the policy of his right hon. Friend the Member for the Bordesley Division on the question of labourers' dwellings.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAIN (Birmingham, W.)I did not say that.
§ MR. W. E. GLADSTONEThe right hon. Gentleman said that I had declared my dissent from his right hon. Friend's policy regarding agricultural labourers. Well, I have referred to the speech, and I find there is no such declaration in it. I am not, of course, responsible for the report, but it is probably as good as any accessible to me. I see that what I said was that the right, hon. Gentleman the Member for Bordesley had promised the labourer three acres and a cow, and flint I did not take a share in that policy.