An Irish Member, Mr. O'Kelly (M.P. for Roscommon), was suspended
yesterday week for the sitting,—a penalty much too trivial, for the ostentatious disregard of the Speaker's ruling of which he had been guilty. Colonel Tottenham asked a ques- tion, of which he had given no public notice, as to a story which turned out to be false, that Mr. Daly, the son of Lord Dunsandle, had been fired at at Loughrea, in the county of Galway ; and in asking this question, he attributed the crime to the Land League. Mr. T. P. O'Connor immediately charged him with " mendaciously " attributing those murders, or attempts to murder, to the Land League ; whereupon Sir S. Northcote asked the Speaker if such an expression, applied to a Member of that House, was in order, which the Speaker ruled it was not, and insisted on his withdrawing it, which Mr. O'Connor did, substituting the word " inaccurately " for " mendaciously." He was hardly in hie seat before Mr. O'Kelly was on his legs, asking whether there was no protection to be had against gentlemen making statements " which were calumnious and lying," whereupon the Speaker named Mr. O'Kelly, and he was suspended by the House, on Mr. Gladstone's motion, by a majority of 188 against 14. All concerned were to blame, Mr. O'Kelly being the most guilty, Colonel Tottenham next in order of culpability, and Mr. T. P. O'Connor the least culpable of the three,—none of them probably perceiving that the in- tolerable character of these imputations of motive in the House of Commons is almost as great, even where they are truly as it is where they are erroneously made. Order is impossible in any great assembly in which any member is accustomed to impute evil intentions freely to any other member,
