The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-02-08 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY BORNE IN THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

THURSDAY.

The Lash members on Thursday night excelled their
former selves, and treated the House of Commons to a
spec.acle the like of which has never been seen within the
walls at Westminster. The new.. that the Executive had
pounced upon Mr. Divitt bad the effect of working his
O )rapetri..th Intl • state of baundlese excitement They
began to perceive that the Government were in earneet
and, gr..wing desperate, buckled to for • band-to-hand
debt It commenced et no (-put five, at which time he
House wee densely crowded in al parte, though ft little
anticipated the thane in .tore. Amoog th throng of
pairs to the gallery over the clock was in. Duke of
GAmbril ea.
A.** di as the question. on the paper were disposed of
Mr. Parnell Heim with pale face and passionate meatier.
saked the Home Secretary iris wee true that Hr. Devitt
had been arrested.
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"Yoe, Mr," the Home Secretary *Md, commencing e
reply which was .uspeoded for sereatl minutes by the
desfehiug ch,ers with which the simple eamoanoement
we. rec-ivrd..

Ur. Psria.•ll. rising again, endeavoured to draw the
Heine Sseretary into controversial matter by inducing
sun t, stets the part cola- gr mods on which the ticket-
ol-lears had been w.th lessen ; nut Sir Willism Hamar:
I. Oa old • bird ta be osuelst in that way, lie sat silent,
and the %ream calling on Mr. Gladstone, it appe•red
as if the business of the evaniog were about to
commence, _

--fic-r...;a71--y "had tha Premier opened his mouth when Kr.
Dilloo, after a haAts c •asultation with W.. Penton, teas
Cat faced tits int twisted Rouse.
At the same Mom the Speaker callei on Kr. Gladdens
to proceed, an Inc had oct welch the Premier attemptsd to
obey. Sot lb. Dillon ass mill standing in his place below
the genies, mold shouts of " Order."
The Speaker rider, Mr. Gladstone resomsd his ~at. and
Mr. MI en sud t a Sp•ske- on, I 'ft Licit, ouch o-hsr,
M. llion folding Lis wow and looking reedy for anything
teat miabt

Loud sh mt. " erne, name," sugreste I to the choir
Is course to be t.lie.,_ end m :here was evid rutty Stilt.
dlterm, of iropres.ine Yr. Dillon by soy ostler meow. the
Speaker named him. Even yet he did 301 sit down, but
stood toad with folded arms, whilst the uproot yam al
greet that Kr. fladatone could warmly be bead mov
the formal me .13,i0n which ft:Moser the nans,ng of a
member by the Speaker, and decrwe his sospensiot. from
the woke. o! It eirrent sitting. Even who, tha qui vim'
was put, Kr. Dil7ou refused t, sit dos's, and ih Hon,a
saw for the grat Si Ise In modi rn histori a membr• openly
de'y nt one of the Gret eleinvics e cede', which !solids r
member to remain on h:s foot rhea die Speeker is *lidd-
ing,
Sulliran, remaining rested, called out tba Kr
Di'.. bad risen to rirpolist of order and tteref,. re had a
riabt to be heard. o notice was taken e and tor
Hol19111slow:y r'emed. At flmt th.ll:sa us.mbrs framed
inclimed to :gnash in their pl.mmi. Ss, 'ft 'r a louse th%
roar and oft for the division lob`,y, .h.y risirer
33 vatai apjbe- tb., oyez...he:Wag no nhers of the uri-11
roe's, on b:dh tales of the Som":er. Oa K. D'"on
asliains to go out whits ordst,d by the Sysaiter, ths
Am. was called for lard sad fasitset•4 t 3

remove him. But Mr. Dillon defied the author;ty of the
Queen's repreeentative as he had denotieced that of the
Speaker of the Hour of Coin ,4001. He refused to sot mit
to the r quest of the Sergeant At-Arms or to be removed
except by main force. For a time it was a question
whether this determination would not he csii,44 out
liter .11,. and the spectacle pnreented of a mender curled
out vi re orris by the alien tent,. san of them
in 4 I, eta siivisilloftiron2biliftear,,sdeenwit-dArins, audit their
"VterachMmr.rialli t.ad .Ithased aouperet e,
versy with the 817eaker, Mr. Gladstone again lanieg;Wit
the table, but had scarcely commenced to seer when Mr.
Parnell jumped up and hotly moved that the Premier be
no longer heard.
The Speaker declined to put this; Me, pannii
and continuously Interrupted Mr. Gladstone. The Speaker
at length named him. The same moors was gone through
as In the case of Mr. Dillon, but this time obstructioe
broke forth in • fresh rare. The Irish members declined
!to leave their rats when the order was given to clear the
Boor, norly protesting against the legality of the
division.
As soon r Mr. Parnell had been dimmed of, the Speaker
reported this circumstance to the House, and again Mr.
Gla irons assayed to continue his
Now Mr. Finigan took up the rnrb and, moving that
Mr. Gladstone be not herd, we. In due form suspended.
lii the division that took piam the Irish members again
declined to leave the Ruse, and the Speaker directed that
their names should be taken down. When the division on
the ad air of Mr. flail/LEI had been announced, the spe,thee
solemnly named twenty-seven gentlemen who had thus
disregarded his authority, and Mr. Gladstone moved. as
before, that they be suspended.
Once more *division took place, the Irish members still
keeping their seats, Being authorised by the result of the
division to suspend them, the Speaker named them one by
one, and the most ester, di nary episode of an unparalleled
night took place. Each memter me his name was called
more or lees theetrically declined to ',bre, except in
obedience to compulsion. Then the BengaAnawet
ordered ',miniume them, and he media succession of twenty.
seven journeys about the House, picking out as many
members, some of whom trent at Ma touch, while othirs
insisted upon the luxury of a pore of attendants. The
House was now very quiet. and not disposed ti laugh at
a scene which, though intsnaely ludicrous, hag it, it 4.44 h
grave matter tor thought. But the merriment broke forth
when Mr. Biggar, on bottle arrested by the Sergesst-et-
Arms, insisted upon haring the attendants in. Each
member, as celled upon, made • little speech, which, when
It grew too long, the Speaker inn:graphed by calling the
Sergeant-at-Arms to advance.
When the last man was gone the House began to breathe
more freely. But it was presently undeceived in its notions
that all was over. Kr. O'Belly hod been omitted in the
general indictment, and now reminded the House of his
existence by interrupting Mr. Gladstone and moving that
her no Imre beard. Mr. 0 Kelly WY bundled out with
great expedition, when Mr. 01) Amen presented himself.
Kr. O'Donnell had been accidentally absent from the
earlier rear but coming in, now claimed his share in the
Vof the expelled patriots. It was anent
owed upon him. But even yet all was not over.
R. Power and Mr. 011hauehneasy, two of the quietest and
best-mannered of the gentlemen wbo followed the lead of
Mr. Parnell, could not leooccile it with their duty to
their constituents that they should be left when all others
were taken. They managed to gratify their desire witriout
inflicting • fresh indignity apm Mr. Gladstone. Remain-
ing seated whilst ths division on Kr. O'Donnell's export=
was in progress, they brought themselves under the ben
of the speaker's dleotsurs, and quietly walked out at the
touch of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
All this had taken three hours and a-halfs and it wee in
an almost empty and altogether weary Hors that the
Premier, himself scarcely able to stand, at length coup
mewed his speech with some apparent prospect of being
able to finish it All traces of weariness permed away from
the Premier as he continsed his speech, and bran be
finished he had added another to the ims list of his
triumphs of oratory. The peroration la which he appealed
to the Hones to uphold lie dignity end traditions was
exceedingly fine, and drew forth enthusiastic cheers not
only from Liberals but from Torre who, pother, never
cheered Kr. Gladstone before
Father.

In the House of Gammons, at the beginning of the
cedinary business. the Speaker mad* a statement in refer-
ence to the "great and unweoadented powers' conferred
span him on Thursday. He should accept the powers, he
said, with a grave settee of responsibility, and should
endeavour In earring them out to preserve the freedom of
debate so much cherished by the House, as wall as to pre-
vent any abase of that freedom He should shortly pro-
duce new regulations for the programs of bodice.: bet la
the meantime he had determined that no motion foe
adjournment should be 'Booed before the orders of the
day, or the notices of motion, had bAin entered upon.
Mr. Fonder moved the second reading of the Protection
of Person and Property (Ireland) Bill, observing that he
had little to add to his former speech. He defended the
retrospective clause, without which the Bill would be much
impaired. He dented that there was any enervation In
the number of outrages reported by the police, or that the
action of the Land Liegee had been confined to disputae
respecting rent. The powers given by the Bill would not
affect persons who merely broke contracts, but only those
who committed outrages, and while the reduced number
at offences since it was introduced indicated the benefits
It would confer, he was afraid thtt, if it failed to pees, the
unwritten law of the Lend League would become the only
law in Ireland.
Mr. Bradlaugh moved the rejection of the Bill, asserting
that the ordinary law was sufficient to deal with outrages.
He believed the Government were sating towards Ireland
with the beet intentions, but it was undesirable to infringe
on the liberties of the subject because the magistrates
declined to put the laws in force. His opposition, how-
ever. would be modified if Mr. Gladstone would pledge
himself to reform the land lawn

Lord R. Churchill attributed the date of Ireland to the
removal of the late Government fr,m power, to the election
speeches of Mr. Gladstone. and to the inaction of the
Government last year.
The debate was ultimately *Thorned.
The inconvenience amongst ctil. whose *earlobe were
commensurate with the length of the sitting which ended
on Wednesday morning waa exceptionally great. Between
Monday and Tuesday the Speaker was in the chair for 13
hours without other interval than the usual quarter of an
hour "for tea." On Tuesday he sat for nearly nine hours.
The doorkeepers began to keep single tide. only when
nearly exhausted. Tbe custodian of the L idles Gallery
remained on duty the whole of the night. The policemen
were on duty for 18 hours at a stretch. with intaryals of
six hours for rut. The Poet-ofilce and Telegraph-081m
were open all night on Monday and Tuesday. The
engineer in charge of the ventilating and warming
apparatus had it Tuesday midnight been on duty for 33
hours.