Mr. Rylands took, we think, a not very wise or
courteous advantage of Lord John Manners in the discussion on the Hares and Rabbits Bill, when he insisted that, having moved the adjournment of the debate, and having been defeated in the division on that motion, Lord John Manners had forfeited his right—which, as a matter of form, he had—to make a speech on the substance of the measure. No doubt Lord John Manners moved the adjournment of the debate much too soon. It was not half-past twelve, and he ought to have made his speech then and there, and left it to some one later in the night to move the adjournment; but that, though a blunder, and a blunder certainly of a nature to hamper the Government, whether so intended or not, was hardly of a kind to merit such a retaliation. We mention this because, though we agree with Mr. Rylands, and -differ from Lord John Manners, we do not at all wish to see this sort of needlessly sharp practice introduced into political -controversy. It embitters dangerously feelings necessarily irritated by political differences, and might lead to a condition of things in which Parliamentary antagonism would become almost a form of social hatred.
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