The week has been markel by a distin t resi
:al of the policy of obstruction. Using their right to discuss any vote in Supply, the Parnellites, aided by a few Radicals, keep the Committee sitting for hours, partly by foo!ish speeches, partly by ex- patiating on trivial grievances, and pa-0y by attacks on the administration of justice. A Father Fishy, for example, having threatened that Mr. Lewis's home should be blown up with dynamite, has been ordered to find securities against a breach of the peace. He can find them with ease, but he prefers prison, and the House of Commons was therefore on Thursday detained by hours of furious and senseless denunciation. The Ministry, the Chairman of Com- mittees, and the Members who remain are worn out with ennui and chagrin, and the Parnellites scarcely deny that this is their object. Mr. Parnell is not in the House, but he must permit these scenes, and his motive is a subject of anxious inquiry. It is most probable that he wishes to remind the House how completely it is in his power, and thus increase the readiness of the new- Parliament to allow Irish Members to sit in Dablin. He forgets that he has to secure the constituencies, not the Members ; that electors have great fortitude under Members' sufferings ; and that every night like Thursday gives the Tories thole Inds of votes. He is forcing all parties. to coasiler wheth-.r a third course is not possible, and Parliament could not be relieved without conceding Home-rule.
