1 APRIL 1922, Page 2

In the House of Lords on Wednesday Lord Carson made

a personal statement in reply to the Lord Chancellor's rebuke.

Speaking deliberately and calmly, and disclaiming any idea of entering into a personal conflict with the Lord Chancellor, he declared that he had not broken any rules or traditions of the House. No rule had ever been laid down that a Law Lord should take no active part in politics. Lord Cairns, Lord hfacnagbten and others had all played prominent political parts. What difference was there between speaking in the House of Lords and speaking on a platform outside ? The Lord Chancellor's ease seemed to be that he himself and ex-Lord Chancellors might safely join in party politics but that the Law Lords might not. " I decline to accept that situation."