Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1883-07-27 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

FRIDAY. . .  Daring a lonT reties of questions, mostly relating to foreign affalre, Mr. Bartlett contrived to monopolies the attention of the House, for which, in the absence 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 Seers t try of the Admiralty snubbed for asking mischievous relestione about the relative forces of the French and English fl sets in the neighbourho id of Madagascar. The a sane Mr. Baltlelt gave two notices of motions censuring the Government collectively and individually, and the sem° Mr. Bartlett contrived, by insisting upon hie technical rights, to derange the plans of the House wits respect to the Agricultural Holdings Bill and te waste the evening sitting. Respecting the Suez Canal the Government was, as Mr. Evelyn Ashley deluged with qiiestions, and Mr. Ashley was challenged by the junior member for Sheffield. Mr. Stuart Wortley, in respect of his censure upon Sir Thome M'l 'wraith, Premier of Queen-I Ind, for his hasty • xpression by telegraph of intense dissatisfaction with the Canal agreement. Mr. Ashley defended himself in an amusing little speech. "Either Sir Thomas Mllwraith must have been over hasty," he said, "Or he mast be more intelligent than members who were deluging the Gevarnment with requests for further informati n." Fr his pert he thought the Victorian Premier, Mr. S was more judieious. Mr. Seneca t olegraped :—" quite in the dark as to the Suez C anal." At this tho gravie y of the Opposition gave way. Lord Edmond Fitzraeurice hal again to make a disceuraging statement respecting the cholera, tbe chief feature in which was a tacit cenfession that reliance must not be placed in the establiehe I sanitary agencies of Egypt. But he was able to inform the House at the same tattoo that Dr. William Helot or, tha nominee of her Modesty's Government, has left for Ezypt, and that the Khedive's Administration is now anxious to make the best use of his services and thme of other European phyeicians who will be acting v. Rh him. Before the Agricultural Holdings B;11 could be reached a Bradleugh episode had to be dispeeed 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 he hoe done once before. But Mr. Bartlett had also put upon the paper a motion respecting the murder of the freebooter Honey in South Africa. If he persisted with it the Agricultural Holdings Bill could not be taken, but on the other hand his only chance of bringing it on arose from Mr. Jesse Collings' willingness to postpone the discuesion for which the evening had been originally eat apart. The member for Eye, however, could not be dissuaded from the dog in the manger policy, so after decirling that the Sergeant-at-Arms might enter an appearance to the writ in the action Bradlaugh v. Gossett, and that the Attorney-General might be instructed to represent him' the House went on with the Agricultural Holdinme Bill for a couple of hours, and left the evening sitting to care for itself.