Mr. Newdegate's dismal appeal to the House on Tuesday night
for leave to bring in a Bill for the appointment of a very odd Commission of Inquiry,—namely, into Conventual Institu- tions, and further, to inquire what regulations are needed with respect to convents ; and "under what eireumstrmocs and securities it may be desirable to promote the Pmisvali071 of women," was made remarlrahle only by the deep melodramatic tones and stories of the Tory Mr. Newdegate, the canny, complacent, earthly argu- ments of the Liberal, Mr. Sinclair Aytoun, and Mr. Bernal Osborne's joke on the alliance. Mr. Newdegate had made his. speech, he said, and "his faithful Sancho Panza on this side of the House was there to second him." Neither the knight of the sorrowful countenance nor his faithful squire will soon forget the sobriquet. They were tilting very hard at a windmill ota, Tuesday night, though it must have been the squire who per- suaded his master to tack on to that chivalric exploit 'thesagacious suggestion that unwilling nuns might be sent out by Miss Rye to
find husbands in the colonies. Mr. Newdegate might ask Parlia- ment to enact that Miss Rye's proposals for female emigrants should be hung up in every nunnery.
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