The " domestic " scene of Monday was followed by
a still wilder general scene on Thursday, when the Irish Members dis- covered, in a part of the House appropriated to Members, an official of the House taking elaborate notes of their down- sittings and uprisings, and accused him of being an official spy, sent to prepare the data for some penal measure against themselves. For "conscience doth make cowards of us all," includ- ing Mr. Callan, M.P. for Dundalk. The Speaker explained that the notes were taken by his direction, and were to be quite im- partial notes, not directed against any class of Members. But the Irish Members were not to be appeased, and the protests— very violent, at times—went on to a late hour. Of the issue of the debate yesterday on the question of Privilege, we shall know nothing before going to press.
