The Irish Members got up one of the many little
scenes in which they indulge the House on Friday week, when Mr. Healy moved the adjournment of the House, to complain of the arrest of Mr. Rorke, of Dublin, under the Protection of Person and Property Act, alleging that he was arrested for nothing that he had either done, or incurred reasonable suspicion of having done, but solely because he is Mr. Patrick Egan's part- ner in business. Mr. Forster stated that in no case had he been better satisfied than in this that there was such reasonable sus- picion as rendered the arrest needful, and that Mr. Rorke's con- nection in business with Mr. Egan had nothing in the world tor do with the matter. Land Leaguer after Land Leaguer got up to express his confident belief that Mr. Forster's assertion was untrue. Mr. Sullivan called the arrest the act of a garieftCr: and wished he could " put in every honest hand a whip, to lash the rascals naked through the world ;" while Mr. Biggar said that " some people liked to see human suffering, and he believed that was the case with the Chief Secretary," a statement which the Speaker insisted on his withdrawing ; and, of course, it was at once withdrawn. The motion for adjournment was rejected, by 147 votes against 16, after as many imputations on Mr. Forster's honesty as could well be crowded into a short dis- cussion.
