The Irish Obstructionists wasted most of the night of yester-
day week in an attempt to resist an essential Army vote, ou the ground of an allegation made by Mr. A. O'Connor that Irish regiments are especially selected for dangerous services abroad, while English and Scotch soldiers are sent to Ireland. On this pretence the House was kept up till five in the morn- ing before the necessary money was voted ; and then the Obstructionists appeared only to give way to the fear of being thought in Ireland. to be offering an indirect opposition to the Irish Land Bill, which they did not dare to offer directly. Mr. A. O'Connor was very angry at the imputation of obstructionist motives, but Dr. Playfair drily said that it was no violation of the Rules of the House to impute to honourable Members obstructive tactics, when it was clear that obstruction was really going on. And so, at last, Mr. O'Connor wavered and collapsed without any result, except that of having consumed. a certain amount of the strength of the Treasury Bench, and having raised in the House a belief more confident than before in his own reluctance to facilitate the proper business of the House of Commons.
