The Irish Members appear to be guided by somewhat peculiar
ideas of their own in their occasional twenty hours' sittings. As we understand it, the only object of the mouster sitting of last week, which lasted from four on the Thursday to one o'clock on the Friday afternoon, was to insist on a two nights' discussion of the Irish Constabulary vote, which Irish Members did not choose to pass without expressing at length their detestation of a system of government that requires so heavily-armed and large a body of police. Nor was it that all could not be said in one night which needed to be said, but rather that the Irish Members wanted it to be conspicuous and notorions in Ireland that a great fuss had been made on the subject,—which was, unfortunately, not possible without making a great fuss. Directly Lord Harting- ton promised that another night's discussion should be devoted to the subject, the Irish Members ceased from obstruction ; and accordingly, on Monday night everything was said over again which had been said before, and nothing added which might not have easily been added before. Mr. Parnell, however, promised to use his utmost influence to restrain the Irish people from outrages and injuries to cattle during the coming winter, on condition that Mr. Forster would promise to use the power of quartering police on a dis- trict for precautionary purposes, and paying the cost of the operation out of time county cess, " with the utmost discretion." That was an amazing concession on the part of Mr. Parnell.
