8 FEBRUARY 1873, Page 1

The most ominous phenomenon in the House of Commons on

Thursday was the innumerable host of notices of motion,—of which the Prime Minister's, of a Committee of the whole House to consider the subject of University Education in Ireland for Thursday next, was the most important. There were over seventy- five notices, of which at least forty-two were regular Bills, which if they are to pass at all will take three readings, and we know not how many nights in Committee. Under these circumstances, Mr. Disraeli had some foundation for the fear he subsequently ex- pressed of "hurry-scurry debate and helter-skelter legislation." Temple Bar will not only be invaded by three omnibuses abreast, but by such a crowd as sometimes squeezes through it,—of course squeezing a few to death in the process,—on " Thanksgiving " days,—though without much thanksgiving in their hearts. We fear that the individual zeal of legislators has increased, is in- creasing, and ought to be diminished, if we are not to lose our Legislature in the chaos of its own atoms.