It was one unbroken scene of turbulence and disorder.

The few Irishmen remained quiet, too much amused, perhaps, or too much exhausted to retaliate.

It was the English--the members of the first assembly of gentlemen in Europe, as they love to style it--who howled and roared, and almost foamed at the mouth with rage at the calm and pale-featured young man who stood patiently facing them and endeavouring to make himself heard." An hour later the closure was applied, for the first time in Parliament's history.

The records of Hansard spoil a story which Redmond was fond of telling--that he took his oath and his seat, made his maiden speech and was suspended all in the same evening.

In point of fact he took his seat that Wednesday afternoon, when the House sat for a few hours only and adjourned again.