The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-07-27 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

FRIDAY.  During a long series of questions, mostly r-el-a-ting-to foreign affa'ra, Mr. Bartlett contrived to monopolise the attention of the House, for which, in the absonci of Lord R. Churchill and the quiescence of Mr. Warton, the present congested state of public business gives him exceptional facilities. It was Mr. Bartlett whom the Soon t cry of the Admiralty snubbed for asking mischievous tetestions about the relative forces of the French and English fleets in the nelghbourho d of Madagascar. The tme Mr. Battlett gave two notices of motions censuring the Government collectively and individually, and the same Mr. Bartlett contrived, by insisting upon his technical rights, to derange the plans of the House with respect to the Agricultural Holdings Bill and t 3 waste the evening sitting. Respecting the Suez Canal the Government was, as Mr. Evelyn Ashley said, deluged with questions, and Mr. Ashley was challenged by the junior member for Sheffield, Mr. Stuart Wortley, in respect of his censure upon Sir Thomas M'llwratth, Premier of Queenaland, for his hasty expression by telegraph of intense dissatisfaction with the C anal agreement. Mr. Ashley defended himself in an amusing little speech. "Either Sir Thomas MD wraith must have been over hasty," he said, "or he must be more intelligent than members who were deluging the Government with requests for further information" For his pert he thought the Victorian Premier, Mr. Ssrvice, was more judicious. Mr. Serv'ce telegrapad :—" Qeite in the dark as to the Suez C anal." At this the gravity of the Oppesition gave way. Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice had again to make a discouraging stettement respecting the cholera, the chief feature in which was a tacit cenfesad et that reliance must not he p` aced in the establishe I sanitary agencies of Egypt But he was table to inform the House at the same time that Dr. William Hunter, the nominee of her Majesty's Government, has left for Egypt, and that the Khedive's Administration is now anxious to make the hut use of his services and three of other European physicians who will be acting nith him. Before the Agricultural Heldings flu could be reached a Bradlaugh episode had to be disp taed of as an order of the day. Mr Gladstone, too, Was Unwilling to pass to the orders without an effort to have the evening as well as the afternoon apportioned for the agricultural discussion. Mr. Jesse Collings had obtained the evening sitting for a motion in favour of a peasant proprietory, but he gave way as hi has done once bef ore. But Mr. Bartlett had also put upon the paper a motion respecting the murder of the freeb toter Honey in Swab Africa. If he persisted with it she Agricultural Holdings Bill could not be taken, but on the other hand his only chance of bringing it on arose from Mr. Jesse Ceilings' willingness to postpone the discussion for which the evening had been originally set apart. The member for Eye, however, could not be dissuaded from the clog in the manger policy, 110 after deciding that the Strgeaut-as-Arms might enter an appearance to tlae writ in the action Brarllaugh v. Gosaett, and that the Attorney-General might be instructed to represent hint, the House went on with the Agricultural Holdings' Bill for a couple of hours, and left the evening sitting to care for itself.