On Thursday night, there were seventy-two questions, and Mr. Gladstone,
interrogated as to the best mode of getting rid of this interrogating nuisance, declined for the second time to- separate it from the general question of procedure, of which it formed a part. Evidently, however, the question of obstruc- tion is becoming so important, that it is not impossible that Mr. Gladstone may think it right to appeal to the country on that question as a whole. And if he does, we trust that he will sketch out the reform which he would now propose for the master-evil of the day. That the mild remedy applied in 1882 was good, so far as it went, no one doubts ; but that it did not go nearly far enough, no one who has watched the last and the present Session in the interest solely of the dignity and power of the House of Commons, has the smallest doubt.
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