The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-11-01 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

COMMONS.-FRIDAY.  A new writ was ordered to issue for Scarborough, in the place of Mr. Dodson, who is raised to the peerage. A question put by Sir Frederick Milner addressed to Mr. Chamberlain as to the correctness of a report of a passage in one of his speeches at Birmingham led to a lively scene. Mr. Chamberlain suggested that it would have been better to have read the whole of the passage brought forward. Sir F. Milner had accidentally omitted the reference to a speech made by Lord Randolph Churchill last year in Edinburgh when lie declared that he would not believe in the reality of the popular demand for the franchise till some palings were pulled down. Lord Randolph, tieing amid laughter and cheers, asked whether it was in order to put in the mouth of a member words he had not spoken. The Speaker said if Lord Randolph disclaimed the accuracy of the report Mr. Chamber• lain would doubtless accept the disclaimer. Mr. Chamberlain pledged himself as to the substantial accuracy of the words he had quoted. Hereupon Sir Henry Wolff hotly interposed with what the Speaker ruled was no point of order. Referring to the riots at Birmingham Mr. Chamberlain said the facts formed a matter of discussion. He would be glad, if an opportunity presented itself, to state what had been reported to him by eye-witnesaes amongst his constituents. At pre. Feet he was of opinion that the only persons who had been guilty of disgraceful conduct in connection with political meetings at Birmingham were some raughe paid by the Conservative party as "checkers out." Lord Randolph Churchill once more rose and asked whether before the debate on the Address closed Mr. Chamberlain would reply to the charges of complicity in the riots, an opportunity for which had been given him last night, and which he had declined. Mr. Chamberlain said nothing would give him greater pleasure. "I did not," he continued, with quiet manner that failed to presage what was coming, "reply last night, because the lion, member for Portsmouth appeared to be the jackal of the noble lord." Roars of laug,liter greeted this sally, rising te a higher pitch when Lord Raudolph Churchill reciprocating Sir Henry Wolff's aesistance rose, and "in the interests of Parliamentary decency," asked whether it was in order for one member to apply to another the term jackal. The Speaker hoped the noble lord would not take the term in a too literal sense, a suggestion gravely put which caused a burst of laughter, amid which the purists of order, who sit iu the neighbourhood of Mr. Healy, cried "Shame l " though with what application was not clear. Sir Stafford Narthcote,_ desiring to throw oil on the troubled waters, hoped Mr. Chamberlain would withdraw the pliraiFe. Mr. Chamberlain explained that he had never thought of using it otherwise than in a figurative sense,precisely in the same way as on a recent occasion Sir Stafford Northcote had described Lord Randolph Churchill as a "bonnet." He however, if the phrase gave pain, at once withdrew it. The scene, which lasted only a few minutes, but !lover flagged in liveliness, was brought to an appropriate conclusion by Sir Henry Wolff, amid renewed laughter, loftily declaring that nothing Mr. Chamberlain could say would affect him in the _ _ . . .  least. The debate on the Address, PO far as it referred to the murders at Maamtra•ma, was reresumed by Mr. A. O'Connor, and wa4 again adjourned. Late in the sitting Mr. Gladstone moved for leave to bring in the Franchise Bill. The motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned at 12.35.