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complete, it will be profitable that the
geology of the district should be despised.

geology of the district should be despised.
Mr.. Plimsoll made, on Thursday, a man.
ly and straightforward apology for the
violence of his language on the Thursday
previous. 1t had not taken him the whole
week so generously accorded to him, he
said, to perceive that it would be impossi-
Bile to conduct the government OF this
great country, and to maintain the dignity
of the House, unless its debates were con-
Quoted within strict limits. He had ex-
ceeded those limits on Thursday last.
This being so, patriotism, good-sense, and
good-feeling alike demanded that he
should withdraw such expressions as had
transgressed Parliamentary usage, and
apologize to the Speaker and the House
for using them. This he did frankly, and
in no grudging.or reluctant spirit. 81
trust, Sir" he added, 'that it will not be
considered Inconsistent with that respect
which | feel for and nave now expressed
to this House, if | add that do not with
draw any statement OF fact" Did that
mean that Mr.. PIimsoII wit drew, or that
he did not withdraw, the assertion that
LIltlc we've NlcilDClS VI LLldJ 1lOuSG WIZ
had sent "%saiIors to their death" for the
'salo Of uuha.Iowed gain 2" With the
Times, we suppose be Withdrew it, since
the imputation as to the motive is hardly
a statement of fact, but rather an inference
of Mr.. PlimsolI's.
At all events, Mr.. Disraeli, with his
usual insight on any subject to which his
attention has been awakened, at once ac-
cepted the apology as sufficient, and even
stated that had he known q week ago the
kind of excitement under which Mr..
Plimsolps nerves had been Iabouring, he
should have been disposed to deal much
more le%niently with his ''overstrainod
sensIbiIIty' sin a great and good cause"
Mr.. Bentiuch and Mr.. NeWdegate wanted
to compel Mr.. PLimsoIl to Withdraw also
his personal charges against Members of
the House, but no one supporting them,
the order for the reprimanding of MIR.
PIimsoil by the Speaker was at once dis
charged, and the "PlimsoIl incident" was
at an end. Not so, however, it's results.
1t has provided Mr.. Plimsoll with an album
dance Of motive-poWer for his campaign,
and apparently it has struck the first great
blow at the popularity and repute Of Mr..
DisraeIIs Administration.
The KeneaIy bubble seems to have
burst. DR.. KeneaIy tried to obtain the
seat for the HartIepooIs, vacant BY the
retirement of Mr.. Richardson, for his
SOD, Mr.. Ahmed KeneaIy, and put the
usual machinery in motion. He spoke
often, and - large crowds. He did not,
however, dwell so much on the "wrorgs
of The nObleman in Dartmoor' as on the
necessity of TrienniaI Par'iaments, and
the faces Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Disraeli
would wear If DR.. KeneaIy had a second
er in the House, and the change did not
interest the electors. Only 259 voted for
Mr.. Kenealy, against l,467 for Captain
Young, a local Conservative shipoWner,
and 1882 for Mr.. Bell, the Liberal Can
didate. These numbers show a rise of
- votes for the Tories, and a decline of
3I8 for the Liberals since last election
but Dr.. Kenealy accounts, we fear, for
259 of the latter.
The Lord Mayor on Thursday gave a
dinner to the Project of the Seine, to
which he had invited the heads of the most
conspicuous municipalities in the world,