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On Thursday, Mr. Rylands moved to refuse anything beyond regulation
prices, and was defeated after a very tedious discussion by 177 (285 to 108). Mr. Anderson then challenged the Chair- man of Committees as to the right of military officers to Tote on a question which was to them one of personal interest, but Mr. Dodson ruled that on large questions of public policy this right could not be denied them ,—and that was all that was done on Thursday. The Bill creeps on more slowly than the celebrated tortoise which Achilles could be demonstrated to be unable ever to catch, if it once had the start of him ; and Mr. Gladstone will be cleverer than Achilles, if he solves the modern problem more successfully than Achilles did.
