Mr.Gibbs--a very pestilent and very empty member of the young army of silly obstructives--moved that the words be taken down--an ancient formula not heard of for years till the present Session, when everything is turned to account for the purpose of occupying time and breaking down the House of Commons, and at the same time accused Mr.Swift McNeill of having used the words.

Mr.
McNeill indignantly denied the charge: then Mr.Macartney attributed them to Mr.Sexton--another and equally indignant denial; and then much uproar and contradictions and apologies--the lubberly and unmannerly interventions of Lord Cranborne as usual conspicuous--and, finally, the end of the storm in a teacup.

Positively loathsome--the whole business methods of the Tories to grasp at everything to rouse a storm or provoke a scene; and altogether disheartening to those who don't wish to see the House of Commons reduced to the drivel and turbulence and anarchy of a French Convention.

Finally, a little after six o'clock, the first clause of the Bill had passed, with a majority of 42.

The House of Commons had decided that there shall be established in Ireland a Legislature of two Chambers.