SCENES IN PARLIAMENT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 23, 30 September 1887, Page 29

SCENES IN PARLIAMENT.

(From the Nation, August 6.) SJ hUrSda L night Week ' after a divisioa on the Lani 8.1 l Mr Courtney addressing the Speaker, said :— « While members wera uSSnSL^ 1 rSafd P to whkr h h' 81r> Mr Heal y ' " itis P erfectl y wiS ' Iwm' ma E- • , mem^ er will not cx P lain " (g^at Tory cheering). ffi^^J^L^.^y.S??- tTLS? && e d pect O e d P M O r m Hl n ii 'T6T 6 g T^ di -°^erted Mr. Speaker "Kl, who «* House 5 biJ,™ 7 w^ 6 an aCt o£ contrili «° De Lisle and the Mouse of Commons. He was never more mistaken. Mr Peel rot 55th flcSSda^f 6^?- 17 g , reatly Chagriued ' aDd Baid in a vofce membefwas not th^° f° Q ? to it( thafc the tone of the h°nmemoer was not that of one who had been called on toexDlain o n e g x U p lI?n?t Ch Mr ha H b T USed ;, He Called ° Q the h«S^,3SS toout in thP h* f i 6aly q r Uietly Siid ; -" lam endeavouring, sir, Saced Whil lan S ua g e I can the position in which I find myself pSlvTruP T^Tt"*?*** 0 * thiß Bide Of iAterruption-which is S y t S ;-n andla ndl f freel y admit it as far as lam concerned- we ruo?on S H a L^S rrUptloDß comin e f rom the opposite side are inter, rnptions directed against us personally, and havne a distinct SdTatTr V™™*" e * ecl^ altogether indepencleft and apart oX B »l f (great T Iriah Cheers and Tor^ cries of 'No'). I can Site me ?^ a \ lam concerned tfa at the whole incident is ha"

Mr, Smith then roße and moved that Mr. Timothy Healy be sas-* , pended from the service of the House. Then the Speaker put the Mo eat ion. The " Ayes " came loudly from the Government side of the H ouse ; but from the Irish benches and the Opposition a loud and angry roar of " No, no," continued for some time. Then Mr. Healy, rising from his ec at and walking down the floor of the Houea, ■topp ed opposite tl c Irish benches for a moment, and addressing bis old colleagues, asked that none of his friends would vote against the motion . They responded to his request by a tremendous burst of cheering. The Speaker vainly tried to repress the applause from the Irish benches, but the cheering was loudly maintained until the unconquerable member for North Longford disappeared from view. No division was taken. Tne Government party tried to get up a demonstration of satisfaction over the conclusion of the incident, bat they were met with §uch a fierce counter demonstration from the Irish members that they lapsed into a sullen and silent mood. Sir William Harcourt was the hero in the third scene. When the House hod lulled itself into a momentary silence he quickly rose. Bis rising was the signal for an extraordinary reception. Indeed, it partook of an ovation ; for lie bad to stand at the table for some minutes before the wild cheering from the Liberal and the Irißh benches subsided. Raising himself to his fullest height, and swinging his long arms around as if he was embracing Goschen, Smith, and Balfour in a Laocoon fold, he denounced io bit most magnificent style " the systematic inßults " given to the Irish members by the Tory mashers sitting opposite. The cheering was something terrific as in bis finest tones he called upon the Speaker to extend fair-play to the Irish members, and to prevent the|systeuiatic insult and provocation proceeding from gentlemen below the opposite gangway, Lord Henry Bruce rose to call Sir William to order, and by so doing turned the stream of the indignant orator's wrath on to himself. " I think," said Sir William, " that the noble lord is one of the persons whose conduct has made it necessary for me to appeal against the systematic insult of the Irish members night after night." When the Speaker left the chair, Mr, Courtney, having resumed his place at the table, said the next amendment was in favour of the hon. member for Kilkenny.— Mr. Chance — I trust after that very painful scene we have just witnessed, hon. members below the gacgway. — The Chairman — The hon. gentleman will address himself to the question. — Vlr. Chance — I shall do bo, sir (a loud laugh from the Ministerial side). I desire to call your attention to the fart that (cries of " Name, name "). The Chairman — I do not know who gave effect to that mocking laugh (cries of "De Lisle "). — The Chairman— As the accusation has been made against the hon. member for the Loughborough division, I ask him to say whether or not he or not he is the author of that mocking laugh. Mr. De Lisle — Sir, with your permission, I will most absolutely and in the most unqualified manner say that on this particular occasion, as on many occasions when my name has been called out, I did not even smile (laughter). Mr. Chance then moved the amendment, which, he said, was of a technical character, and which, after a reply by the Attorney-General, was withdrawn.

Wells' Haib Balsam. — If gray, restores to original colour. An elegant dressing, softens and beautifies. No oil nor grease. A Tonic Restorative. Stops hair coming out ; strengthens, clean6eß, heals scalp. Mrs. Langtry was naturalised the other day in San Francisco, and it was said that she was the first woman who ever took out papers of citizenship. The Neiv Bedford Standard corrects that mistake by laying tb&t probably the first women ever naturalised in this country were Ellen and Catherine Callaghan, wbo were made citizens before the police court in that city on January 16, 1851. It ii stated that the Emperor, the Queen Regent of Spain, Prince Bismarck, and Sen or Canovas have received from the Pope gold medals commemorative of the Papal mediation in the Caroline Islands dispute. Dr. Ignatius von Dollinger is dangerously ill, and hii death is feared, as he is now in his 89th year, having been born at Bamburg, in Bavaria 28th of February, 1799. He made a persistent opposition to the decrees of the Vatican Council, and people are now praying that he may be reconciled to the Church befora his death. While the Canadian cruisers are seizing American fishermen on the Atlantic coast, our revenue cutters in Pacific waters are making i^ively for Canadian poachers on the Alaska sealing grounds. Adibces from Sitka last week brought the news of five seizures by the witter Rush, four of them being Canadians and one American. This is not exactly the retaliatory policy recommended by Congress last winter, but it may show our Northern friends that Bauce for the pander is not agreeable victuals. Of all the outrages which from time to time have been reported, none excited more horror and indignation than the mutilation of dumb animals. Every humane and right-minded person expressed dttestation of tho6e capable of such brutality, but could anything exceed in atrocity an instance which occurred a few nights ago in England on the Bellagio estate, not twenty-five miles from London. Some wretches who broke into the stables actually sored up nithnire the eyes of a cart-horse. And this is the country that declares Ireland has the monopoly of crime I We may have to reverse our opinion of the harmless' ■« of Mr. H. Rider Haggard's highly coloured romance!, sine* oin little American boy has found them too much for his credulous little head. Nine-year-old Beach Hawley, of Brookfield, Conn., last week, being fired with ambition to explore itbe caves of Kor, or the wonders of Zu-Vendi land, drew 20dols from the bank, and while waiting for the first express train for Central Africa, amused himielf by practising with an old-fa9hioned horse-pistol. Whether by accident or design, he managed to shoot himself in the head, and it is expected that he will die. The interesting question is : who gave a nine-year-old child free access to a bank-book, a horse-pistol, and the incendiary literature of Mr. Haggard ?