PAINFUL INCIDENT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

PAINFUL INCIDENT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

An incident, painfully, and almost tragically dramatic, interrupted the proceedings of the lloupo of Lords on Monday night, and brought them to an abrupt and premature close. The House was fairly- full, and was listening with quiet attention to. an historical statement by the Duke of Argyll regarding the circular addressed by Prince G or tscbakoff some twenty years ago to the Russian representatives abroad on the subject of the Russian position in. Central Asia Suddenly, at the most interesting point of the noble Duke's narrative, a loud and piercing cry < catpe ' from the second benoh behind the bishops, and the next moment' Lord' 'Dormer fell back apparently lifeless.' The jricident was in the highest degree painful and unsettling, and it was some moments ere the House couldirealise the meaning. The Duke of Argyll stood motionless and speechless ; others sat alarmed and unable to act. By-and-bye the Earl of,, Aberdeen and a few other friends who more immediately surrounded .him rushed to Lord Dormer's assistance. His iace was perfectly livid, his body appeared rigid, and life seemed extinct. An effort; to restore consciousness by physical jostling failed. Members generally — including the Prince of Wales," the Duke of Edinburgh, the 'Duke 1 of Cambridge, Lord Granville, and Lord Salisbury — crowded found, gazed at the prostrate form,' silently acknowledging their helplessness, and then quietly ret'iirned to their' places, meanwhile, no signs of reviving life being observable in Lord' Dor.mer, 1 Lord Granviile and Lord Salisbury held a consultation, the result 'being that Lord Granville 'immediately moved the adjournment'of the House. The motion was at on6e agreed to, and Dr. Lyons,; '.the member for' Dublin, who in' the interval' had' been called, camd'in,'and,'by t!h\e aid of Dr. • Farquharson, llappi|y succeeded in restoring consciouness." , AJ; IKe'same, time Inspector Denning and four constables arrived' with a ( stretcher, ,biifc fortunately it was not' required, and, after 'some delay, during which an.other physician , appeared,, liord por.mer was 'able J;p, ,walk but of the House, leaning , on the arms _ of two policemen. ', The cause of his Lord T ship's illness was epileptic .fit. The incident created notalitte excitement,