NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ARLI A MENT reassembled on Thursday. Mr. Balfour's
first duty was to propose a Motion-for taking the whole time of the House for Government business. This very right and natural proposal—the whole object of the Autumn Session is the passing of the Education Bill and of certain formal but essential Government measures—was, of course, fiercely resisted by the Irish Members, and was not carried before a violent scene bad taken place which led to the suspension of Mr. O'Donnell. We do not, however, propose to describe this scene, as nothing pleases the naughty children of Parliament so much, or so much encourages them in their naughtiness, as public atten- tion being paid to their vagaries. If the whole Unionist Press could be induced to practise such reticence—a reticence, we admit, far easier for a weekly than a daily newspaper—we should hear much less of Irish Parliamentary rowdyism. In the end Mr. Balfour's Resolution was carried by a majority of 117 votes,-262 to 145. When later the Bill was taken in Committee it was too late for any very serious amount of work to be got through, but some progress was made with the dis- cussion of Clause 8, and Mr. Balfour once again made it clear that though the persons, the majority of whom are appointed by the denomination to which the school belongs, are called managers, they by no means have the whole control of the school in their hands, and that in matters of secular education the control will be in the hands of the local authority.
