(Schoolhouse cheers.) Mr Tipper .-- I should like to know if the schoolhouse fellows are making any efforts to discover the culprit by whose assistance they won the race.

(Tremendous Parrett's cheers.) Mr Fairbairn .-- I can't say we are.

(Derisive cheers of "Of course not!" from Parrett's.) The hon.

gentlemen opposite seem to know so much about it, that I think they had better find the culprit themselves.
("Hear, hear," from the schoolhouse.) The proceedings at this stage became rather noisy, every one being anxious to express his opinion on the question.

It was not till after the President had threatened to "adjourn the House" that silence was at length restored.
Bloomfield took the sensible course, also, of announcing that, as quite enough questions had been asked about the race, he should not allow any more on that subject.
Whereupon Mr Tucker, the Welcher, rose and put a question on another matter.