The motion for adjournment had no sooner been negatived, and
the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair, to go into Committee of Ways and Means, moved, than Mr. O'Brien sprang to his feet and made a most furious onslaught on Mr. Trevelyan, in which he was seconded by Mr. Sexton, for the arrest of the suspected dynamiter Fitzgerald, and for refusing Fitzgerald the right to see in Sligo gaol a person entirely unknown in Sligo, who professed to be his solicitor,—the refusal having been purely precautionary till the evidence that this person was really his solicitor was forthcoming. And when Mr. Trevelyan's reply had settled that question, Mr. Leamy arose and made a long and furious speech on a case of apparently improper gaol administration, which Mr. Trevelyan had already referred for special investigation to the Irish Commission sitting to investi- gate the irregularities of prison administration. This is the way in which the House finds its time muddled away,--sometimes by the Conservative majority which professes to be passionately de- voted to the Constitution, sometimes by the Irish minority
which professes openly its intention to undermine the Consti- tution.
