On Monday, Mr. Labouchere opened the adjourned debate in a
speech of the usual kind, in which there was one fair joke, the remark that if Mr. Chamberlain did not pause in his down- ward career, the next thing we should hear of him would be that he had been gazetted " Lord Chamberlain, and was claiming to be descended from the Sire de Chamberlain, who came in at the Conquest along with the Sire de Brassey." He spoke of the Chicago Convention as a " magnificent sight," and pronounced a tremendous eulogy on Mr. Parnell, who, according to Mr. Labouchere, " had gained the respect of every Englishman whose respect was worth having,"—evidently a subtle way of saying that hardly any Englishman's respect is worth having. Mr. Labouchere concluded by expressing the hope that before any of the present Government's proposals were accepted, there should be another "appeal to the country."
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