At twelve o'clock, the amendments remaining were all voted on
in succession, so far as they were in order, and Dr, Phi,yfair reported the Bill to the House, the majority for .so doing being 3:30 (277 against 47). The Irish Members then made a very absurd resistance to the Chairman leaving the Chair, a motion against which they insisted on dividing, —a bit Aef obstruction without meaning, as it only annoyed Dr. Mayfair, and did not delay by one minute the carry- ing of any part of the Bill,—and then they divided again on the question whether the Bill as reported should be considered on Tuesday, as the Government wished, or next Monday, as pro- posed by Mr. Parnell, and wore of course again defeated by a great majority ; and on Tuesday, accordingly, the Bill as reported was considered. On that -day the discussion was enlivened by a speech from Mr. Parnell on treason-felony, in which he ridiculed the fears of the Government, and asserted that there was no ground at all for the various rumours of Fenian attempts like that of Salford, which he regarded as a practical joke ; and intimated that what Mr. Forster wanted was the power to Accuse innocent but troublesome -mon of some vague offence not ;eau to disprove. Mr. Forster replied that the Government .had very good reasons for believing the Salford attempt to have had treasonable connection with Irish plots, and that it was an odd practical joke to do what had cost one life., and. might yet cost a second. After this debate, Mr. Parnell grosin disappeared from the House,—possibly under the irsepreeeiau that his Clara speech has laid him open to an ordinary proseoution or an arrest under the Coercion Bill, when it shall become Jaw. Mr: Parnell's three days' manifestation of himself were not a ienceess.
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