O'CONNELL'S MISTAKE.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11958, 11 June 1907, Page 4

O'CONNELL' S MISTAKE.

Previous to the costructionn of the Ladies' Gallery in the liouse of Commons the only spot from which any lady could hear the debates was from the ventilator opening* in the ioot."arzzs&-*> . Elizabeth Fry was the first woman to be allowed to *o up there. The Quaker members of Parliament procured from the Speaker a permit for her to be there during the debates on prison reform, in their votes on which they were always guided by her experienced advice. Other ladies followed occasionally, but it was a most uncomfortable place— dark, and with only room for about two chairs. Well, one day Feargus O'Connell, . son of the "Liberator, " was going to make a speech, which he intended should be a very fine oue, and so he (like a good husband, caring more for the verdict of the critic on the hearth than any other) arranged for bi3 wife to be in the ventilator hole to listen. As soon as he had done speaking he rushed upstairs, and entering the dark place, saw as he supposed, his wife turn to gieet him. He threw his arm around her neck and kissed her warmly as he said, "Well, my darling, what do you, think of it?" But it chanced that his wife had not come, and that the wild Irishman had embraced a duchess, * t the wife of an influential Minister who declared to her hubsand that such mistakes must be prevented in the future by making a proper ladies' gallery.

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