Notwithstanding this defeat, Mr. Gladstone declined to delay the progress
of the Bill, which he considered essential to the restoration of authority in Ireland, and it was resumed on the same evening at nine o'clock and concluded and read a third time, after a lively passage of arms between Mr. Labouchere and Sir William Harcourt, the former exhorting the Government to vote against their own Bill, now that the House had refused one of their own amendments to it, and the latter declaring that Mr. Labouchere's only object in his amusing speeches was to get out of every situation the maximum of mischief of which it was susceptible. The Bill went up to the House of Lords on Saturday, was read a second time on Monday, after a bitter speech against the Government from Lord Salisbury, in which he stated his preference for trying all the Irish prisoners, by a change of venue, in England, rather than suspend trial by jury, passed its third reading on Tuesday, and received the assent of the Crown on Wednesday. It is, therefore, now the law of the land.
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