On Friday week the votes in Supply were, as usual,
delayed by a good deal of obstruction from Mr. Healy and his friends, which has been prolonged through this week. Discus- sions have taken place as to small points like the character of the Civil Service Examinations, whether candidates should be expected to write essays on the situations which give their interest to Shakespeare's plays, whether the London Uni- versity Examiner in Anatomy is well enough paid, whether the London University ought to have an Examiner in the Hebrew and Greek texts of the. Scriptures, whether the writ for a new election for St. Stephen's Green Division of Dublin should have been made at the time at which it was made, whether public business was conducted in the right order, and so on, and so on, —discussions which have wasted a considerable amount of time. Dr. Tanner on Wednesday got irrelevantly eloquent as to the payment of the Examiner in Anatomy in the University of London, and expressed himself quite willing to move the reduction of his salary in order that as an ultimate consequence of its reduction, it might be subsequently increased,—an Irish mode of dealing with the matter, which might not quite meet the views of the examiner in question. Of course the vote was ultimately carried and all the estimates approved by majorities varying between 80 and 100 in the end ; but Mr. Healy's ability as a guerilla leader was in the meantime tested and proved, which was no doubt Mr. Healy's object. He is certainly gaining rapidly on Mr. Dillon. The consequence is that the Anti-Parnellites are assuming more and more a hostile attitude not only to the present Government, but to the Gladstonian Front Bench.
