On Th4r4ey evetLing, i4 Kr. Gladstone's absence, Lord Hart-
ington Moved the urgency resolution as to ths Report on the
Coercion Bill, fixing seven o'clock as the time at which all further amendments and new Clauses must be voted upon with- out discussion, and the resolution was carried by 371 to 53 votes, The various amendments, so far as they were in order, were then voted upon, and the Bill reported to the House at nine o'clock. Mr. Forster then at once moved the third reading. of the Bill, remarking that this was the twenty-first day of debate on its provisions ; and. was resisted by Mr, M'Carthy, Mr. -Jesse Collings, and others, Sir William Harcourt making a strong point of the threats held out by the American Branch of the Irish Land League. Eventually the debate was adjourned, but will probably be finally closed before this journal is in the- hands of our readers.
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