The Poole Telegram. — 1883-07-27 (Poole, Dorset, England)

FRIDAY. During a long 1101i38 of questions, mostly relating to foreign sffa're, Mr. Bartlett contrived to monopolise the attention of the Horne, for which, in the abet nee of Lord R. Churchill and the quiescence of Mr. Warton, the present congested state of public businesa gives him exceptional fecilitips. It was Mr. Bartlett whom the Soon t try of the Admiralty snubbed for asking mischievous questions about the relative forces of the French and I English fleets in the neighbourho :d of Madagascar. The aims Mr. Battlett gave two notices of motions censuring the Government collectively and individually, and the same Mr. Bartlett contrived, by insisting upon his technical right's, to derange the plans of the !Louie with respect to the Agricultural Holdings Bill and t waste the evening sitting. Rasp- cting the Seez Canal the Govornment was, as Mr. Evelyn Ashley said, deluged with questions, and Mr. Ashley was chall-mged by the j Inter member for Sheffield, Mr. Stuart Wortley, in respect of his censure upon Sir Thomas M'll wraith, Premier of Queen:4 and, for his hasty expression by telegraph of intense dissatisfaction with the Canal agreement. Mr. Aahley defended himself in an amusing little speech. "Either Sir Thomas M'llwraith must have been over hasty," he said, "or he must be more intelligent than members who were deluging the Government with requests for further inforruatim." For his pert he thought the Victorian Premier, Mr. S srvice, was more judicious. Mr. Surf ce talegraped :—" Quite in the dark aa to the Suez C soil." At this the gravi. y of the Oppesition gave way. Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice ha I again to make a discouraging statement respeoting the cholera, the chief feature in which MO a tacit confession that reliance must net he placed in the establiehed sanitary agencies of Agypt But he Was able 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 best use of his services and those of other European physicians who will be acting with him. Before the Agricultural Holding; Bill could ha reached a Bradlaugh episode had to be disposed 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, hut he gave way as ha hoe done once b fire. But Ur. Bartlett had also put upon the paper a motion respecting the murder of the freeb inter Honey in South At rice. 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 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 dog in the manger policy, so after deciding that the Sergeant-at-Arms might enter an appearance to the writ in the action Brailaugh v. Gossett, and that the Attorney-General might be instructed to represent him, the House went on with the Agricultural Holdings' Bill for a couple of hours, and left the evening sitting to care for itself.