New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-12
LIFE IN LONDON.
GREAT NIGHT IN THE COMMONS
JOHN MORLEY'S VOTE OF CENSITPE
Westminster. Fehru,rv 70


that followed the downfall of Mr. Parnel il has
scarcely made effort to recover itself Now and
then untamable Mr. Tim" Healy has lifted n,
n strident voice in attack on Mr. Balfour: but
lacking the inspiration of the thunderous cheers
from united party, even truculent Tim has
yielded to the dangerous influence of tie hour.
and has by the week together sat silent The
country, and the House itself, began to think
that life had finally died out Of the old dog. and
that never more, as long as this Parliament might
last, should there be other OF those dramatic
scenes that make the national pulse beat higl or
those debates and divisions that make history
But the House of Commons. like woman SOU
vent vare. Bien fol &c qui iie." IL is even
more strikingly like the sea, which one hour
lies smiling and placid in the sunlight, and the
next, impelled by sudden wind. springing up
when no one expected it, is angry and storm.
tossed. In the debate which concluded its first
chapter at . O'Clock yesterday morning the
House vindicated its old reputation as the most
impressive and attractive dramatic stage in
London The occasion vote OF ccnsuIe on
the Government, moved by Mr.. John Morley, in
behalf of tie Opposition. Ii challenged the
whole of the Administration in Ireland. a some
what familiar theme, that did not OF Itself PROM
ise eitf~r entertainment or excitement. Had Mr..
sncech and had it fallen to the lot of Sir Michael
Beach or Mr.. W. IL. Smith to reply OH the part
of the Government, the proceedings of the sitting
would not have been lifted above the humdrum
note at which they have buzzed since the session
oncned. But the Chief Secretary for Ireland is
MIR Arthur Balfour nephew of the Prime Minister,
= scholarly young patrcian, who has amazed the
world bv suddenly shaking himself out OF what
seemed to he a consitutionally languorouS state,
and Governing in Ireland with an iron grip, the
Elo of which has not been felt on its throat since
Cromwell died.
T. xvas known that Mr.. Balfour, who has been
in Ireland for some weeks organizing ana ad-
ministcrinc the relief fund which he ana inc
Lord Lieutenant combined TO raise, was eager
for the lonc-defcrrcd battle. Note of 1t mad heen
raised when first Parliament met iol
tho winter session Mr. john Morley. VINO
was present in Tipperary when the poHce'
baton in hand charged on the people pa'iehuy
Whiting for admission to the Court HOUSE, "leic
MIR Dillon and Mr. O'lirien were TO De eAahiheu'
had given notice of resolution raising thc "Hoie
question: Action had been deferred by reason u
the domestic difficulty then raging III Coihlii'cc
poon M n When the House met again III
January Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, ignoring MI rar,
nell had given notice of similar resolution, ana
MFR Morley. had tabled his resolution. The Gov.
eminent. happy with any of the three, had
,ivcp tho preference TO Mr.. Morley, and II was
nnon his motion that the Government now stood
arraigned.
The famous courthouse in which the case was
IN bc heard looked its best. 1t swarmed WIN
life and excitement from the floor oil the House
TO the topmost range OF benches III the otrahsefs
Gallery. The peers, weared oil 'ne lnono'on'
of their gilded chamber, where day by day. noun
inn i dane crowded into the limited space al
lotted 10 them over the clock. Those VINO came
late struggled like common creatures Tor standing
room at the top Of the stairway. On the hoor
of the House every seat was taken ana MemoeiS
hocked into the unfrequented seats OF the sius
| Galleries Lord Randolph Churchill was 'here'
a rare visitor in these days. sitting III his coinei
scat behind the Treasury Bench, with character
istic tckleness fondling the beard that since
his return from Monte Carlo, has made Its aP
noorapce in rivalry of the turbulent mlstache
(which at one time had been raised almost to the
status of a Parliamentary institution. Mr.. Glad-
STONE was there with eager face and restless hands
Ionoinp 70 be at some one Mr.. Parnell sat IN MS
usual seat below the gangway, with MT. lin
uealv and all that had passed between them
since last November on his left hand Next DuS
one sat Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, the mlldeSt-maAhefea
man that ever found himself forced into prom
inent place in fierce encounter. The House. quo"
10 notice these little things, smiled to see between
fine two rival leaders the portly presence Oh M''
r y Potter. one of the stoutest men in the
tIousA useful buffer in case angry passion should
rise ON either side of him. MI Chamberlain
WAS there. with arms folded and watchful eyes
shaded under his hat. The noble lord. the Mem
Der for West Birmingham" Mr. I'm heaS
presently styled him, apparently by sup OIL wv
tongue but not without suspicion OF "iche" w
sign However it be, the House laugheu cO"'
sumcdiy, as it always does when chahce rciri'H0.
is made TO Mr.. Chamberain's actual or contIhseI,
corncction with the sacred community that ton
not neither do they spin A..
# was characteristic Of Lord harrington UNIV
at = time when in the political world all eyes
were bent upon the House of Commons ana Tue
| stems of thc favored few hundred who had tle
/ richt of admission were hurrcdly bent toward
| Westminster. he should lounge in at c4oC"'
| business having begun an hour and haIi eaIHcl'
and MIR John Morley halfway through his speech
In thc Parliament of 1874. when LORD hattlh7-
TON WAS titular leader of the OpposItloh' WIG
! Mr. Gladstone. engaged in controversy Oh 'lc
| Vatican DEGREES he was familiarity Known 90
! County Guy.
Bird breeze and flower confess the h'ur
| But where i, County Guy +! $500,
| In SCOTS ballad County Guy never app'aioN
! on the scene Lord harrington Is generahS 'Ae'S'
! int he always comes in late. in the moN'ne
scene which followed later when Mr.. aIio"r "''
on hi, fee, flashing round him with bitter tongue
| the House SETTLING about him in uncoh'ro'i""'e
cxcit,mcpt Lord Harrington was the only uiimo'e'
/ fourr in the throng He sat AT the chu "a -
Front Opposition Bench, wCl one hama h''i "N
den in his pocket To thrust it all the way uown I'VE
would have been too complete an ehor': ms
head rested on the back of the bench MS nrC
WAS tilted over his eyes and his mouth shsh'y
ono, an attitude by 10 means free from suS.
r;cinu If slumber do not think he really Slept
tor the sufficient reason that the Shouting ''e