The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1884-08-15 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OWN CORRESPONDENT. WEDNESDAY.  Parliament will be prorogued to-morrow, a week later than was anticipated some time ago. 10-morrow's proceedings are merely formal, and will only occupy a few minutes, all practical work being already over. It is considered doubtful if there will be a quorum of members, as nearly everybody has already left town, including Mr Gladstone. The only resnit of such a thing would be that no questions would be allowed to be put, and the final scene would be rendered thereby still shorter.  The last working day of the session—Tuesday— was remarkable for the complete discomfiture of Lord Randolph Churchill. That yciang freelance, wishing to keep his name well before the public' thought fit, for the hundredth time this sessien' to impeach the general policy, foreign and domestic, of the Government, and in so doing let himself down tremendously. The occasion was the order for the third reading of the Appropriation Bill, which the noble Lord thought a fitting opportunity for launching his thunderbolts against the heads of each individual member of the ministry, and making an attack on the several departments of State. He especially singled out the Chancellor of the Exchequer, probably because Mr Childers is one of the mildest mannered men to be met with in the parliamentary arena. He accused him of being a failure at the war office, at the admiralty, and in his present position, and his denunciations of Sir William Harcourt, Mr Chamberlain, Mr Ashley, and Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, were couched in language almost as strong. As soon as the leader of the fourth party resumed his seat, Mr Childers sprang to his feet, and read the noble Lord a lesson which, even he, will not forget in a hurry. The Chancellor of the Exchequer commenced by instituting a comparison between the speeches of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Beaconsfield—whose mantles the noble Lord evidently thought had fallen upon himself—and those of Lord Randolph, pointing out that whereas the former brought point, wit, and ability to bear on their opponents, the ratter was only skilful in calling names and using violent epithets. Mr Childers then read the following expressions which be had taken down in the course of the member for Woodstock's speech, in illlustration of his argu: in en t: —"m in isterial indecencies," "nefarious transaction s," "devices of the lowest and meanest character," " conduct flagitious in the highest degree," "transparently ridiculous evasions," •'obTimis insincerity," "most unworthy manceuvree," "extreme insincerity." Mr Childers advised the youthful aspirant to parliamentary fame to give up this vulgar style of abuse, which really hurt nobody, to attack them for their acts, and to leave his attack and their answer to the judgment of Parliament and the country. Lord Randolph was literally squelched, and he eventually left the House in disgust, bumbled and shamed in the eyes of everybody present. It is to be hoped for the sake of parliamentary decencies that the cat-o'nine-tail process, adopted by Mr Childers, will have its due effect. •  A painful impression has been caused by the revelation of the fact that Myles Joyce, who was hanged in Ireland sometime back with several others, for the Maamtrasna murders, was not guilty of the actual murder. It will pehaps be remembered that on the scaffold Joyce protested his innocence, and he was supported in his protestations by the testimony of the other culprits, and it may not have been forgotten that it was this unhappy man who was kicked by Mar/good into the pit, beneath the scaffold, when the hitch occurred at the- critical moment. It is admitted by the informer Casey—who has made a public recantation of his evidence given at the trial—that Joyce was one of the party out on the night of the murder, but that he was stationed as an outpost, and was not one of those who actually committed the crime. Lord flartington has promised the Irish members of Parliamext that he will grant an enquiry into the matter, and there it rests at present. The position of the Irish Executive, however, is clear, Joyce may have been hanged for a crime that he did not actually commit, but he wouid have paid the last penalty in any case, as accessory before the fact. The circumetantial evidence against the man was very clear, and itis to be hoped that his untimely end will have the effect of deterring others from joining murderous brotherhoods.