On Thursday, Mr. W. H. Smith gave notice that he
would yesterday move that at a given time, which was specified later in the evening as 10 p.m. on June 17th (Friday next), the question under discussion shall be put, and that all sub- sequent clauses, excluding, we suppose, amendments, shall then be put. This is even stronger than Mr. Gladstone's action in relation to Mr. Forster's Bill for suspending Habeas Corpus in Ireland in 1881, which the Parnellites resisted so long and with so much violence. If Mr. Smith's motion be carried, as it will be, or perhaps has been,—for we go to press before we can hear the result of last night's debate,—the motion will compel debate to come to an end on Friday next at 10 p.m., after which the House will vote on all clauses then remaining without debate. This is the right course to take, and it is not taken too soon. The debate of Wednesday has shown that neither Mr. Parnell, nor Sir William Harcourt, nor Mr. John Morley, nor, we presume, Mr. Gladstone himself, can reduce Messrs. Healy, Tanner, Chance, and Co. to reason in the discussion of the Irish Crimes Bill; and the British people are determined not to push patience to the extreme of blind and stupid insensibility.
