17 SEPTEMBER 1887, Page 3

Subsequently in the sitting, Mr. Harrington was justly sus- pended.

He refused to sit down when ordered, and declared that "the Speaker had been on the pounce to catch him since he stood up." The Speaker took no notice of the accusation beyond naming the offender, and is, of coarse, far too inured to the "dreary drip" of desultory dullness which now marks the House, to be impatient of any individual dripper. It wears down his health, as it does that of even the strongest Ministers; but he and they acquit themselves like quiet men tortured by women's "nagging." They possess their souls in patience, only wondering why deafness is sometimes considered a grievous burden.