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Mr. Parnell followed with a vehement attack on the Government,

remarking that the motion, if carried, would certainly lead to a much stronger use of the Closure than any that had hitherto been sanctioned, since in the motion now proposed, even the Chairman of Committees was to be deprived of his veto on the Closure, while after 10 p.m. on the 17th inst.,—i.e., yesterday evening,—not even the amendments of which notice had been given would be voted on. Mr. Parnell prophesied that the precedent now to be set would some day be used against the party which is setting it,—a prophecy which required no superhuman wisdom in Mr. Parnell, and by which no sensible politician will be in the least daunted or dismayed.

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