Mr. Anderson, the Radical M.P. for Glasgow, is also much
exercised in his mind concerning the proposal for the closure of the debate by the vote of a majority, and protested against it to his constituents on Tuesday. Mr. Anderson did not explain how he would prevent the indefinite prolonging of Parliamentary debate without such a power ; nor did he hint, we believe, how the constituencies were to get the legislation for which they had declared their desire, while every trumpery debate is drawn out to infinity by speakers whose only object it is " how not to do it." Mr. Anderson himself is a well-meaning and worthy man, but one who is apt to think it one of the final causes of the creation of the House of Commons that it should listen patiently to his lucubrations, on subjects—like currency, for example—on which it derives no help from listening to him. Mr. Anderson, indeed, too often does, without malice, what Mr. O'Donnell or Mr. T. P. O'Connor do with the deliberate object of paralysing the House. No proposal which would not, after reasonable tolerance, close the mouths of such speakers, would be a remedy at all.
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