Obstruction was quite the order of the day on Thursday,
and Mr. Childers did not get the House into Committee to hear his Budget statement till after seven o'clock. First, Mr. Hubbard raised a bitter complaint concerning the morning sitting fixed for Friday ; and, on being encouraged to do so by the vehement cheering of the Members around him, moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the question, a great part of the Con- servative party (but not Sir Stafford Northcote) rising in their places to support his motion. We point to that case as one in which the Conservatives, as Conservatives, took a most unusual and unprecedented course,—to resist a Government thoroughly well-inclined to provide them, by special arrangements, with excellent opportunities for making the motions and speeches which they wished to make, as Mr. Childers amply proved in his reply to Mr. Hubbard's speech.
