A Scottish night in the Commons for the discussion of our estimates fs seldom a lively business, and is rarely noticed by other than Northern readers. I may therefore be yFermitted to direct attention to speech of Captain Elliot, one of the most successful members of the Government we have possessed of Hate years. He made an interesting lecmparison between the curves of health statistics and unemployment figures. Fortunately he was able chow that the upward curve the former had no relation to the jlaticr. "Still it was a depressing Eccture he sketched. With 20,600 fewer people in the country at the
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