19 FEBRUARY 1887, Page 3

Yesterday, after we went to press, the struggle was no

doubt renewed on the reception of the Report of the Address. It is to be hoped that in the new Procedure resolutions, steps will be taken to confine the debate on the Address, and the subsequent stage of the Report, within very narrow limits, for at present every Session opens with a deliberate and most demoralising waste of time, which at once fatigues Members and takes the heart out of them. You might as well expect a horse that had already travelled many miles to run a race with spirit, as expect a House of Commons, dispirited by sixteen or seventeen nights of the most dreary " talkeatalkee," to enter with spirit into the real business of the Session.