6 DECEMBER 1890, Page 18

An incident showing how high the passion of debate ran

in the Irish caucus occurred on Thursday. Mr. Parnell had been putting forward his demand for an explicit pledge from the Gladstonian Party that Home-rule should include Irish control of the land and Irish control of the police, and when Mr. Healy spoke of his proposal as wanting in straightforwardness, Mr. Parnell said he regretted that Mr. Healy did hot consider his course a straight course; but by that he would stand or fall. " Then," said Mr. Healy, " you will fall ;" on which Mr, Leamy cried out, "Away with him, away with him !" and Mr. John O'Connor, " Crucify him !" Mr. Sexton appealed to the chair against this blasphemy, but it passed otherwise unrebuked. Over questions of leadership, Irish passions rise to fever-heat.