In the Commons it was once more the Irish members who made the scene. Mr.
four had closured a vote of sever lions ow account before any Trish member ken on it. None of the lenders ut the Nation: rty were present; in fact those most prominent in the revolt which followed were quite uew members. As waist the closure they-declined to either of the division lobbies and din the House in violation ofthe standing order under which the House must cleared fur x division. The er Was sent for, and, members still refusing to budge, the S: pate Aruns as ordered to remove them. Mr. Parnell his followers took 2 similar course several years ago; but on that occasion they yielded to a show of force, and walked out of the House. But this time they took more unseemly course, and a body of police ad to be brought in to carry them out one by one, struggling and fighting. Under the stauding orders they are ipso facto suspended from the service of the house for e week. Unfortunately one member, Mr. Jordan, who hud voted and taken no partin the disturbance, was "named" among the rest and suspended; but that matter hasbeen set right, Mr. J. H. Lowther, the Chairman of Committees, hias taken the responsibilities of the mistake, and Mr, Jordan hus been reinstate Last night, when the civil list for the new Sovereign should have been under discussion, the House had instead to devote itself to the discussion of a resolution for pre-Venting the recurrence of such a lamentable and disgraceful scene. Mr. Balfour proposed the adoption of a: new order under which the punishment for opposing force the carrying out of the standing orders will be suspension for the rest of the session. Mr. Redmond made a very eloquent and a very defiant speech. Its gist was that England had robbed Ireland of her Parliament and had forced the Trish members into the British Parliament, the rules of which they therefore did' not feel bound to respect. Mr. Balfour's reply was also very able. He easily showed that the closure of the yote of seventeen millions, high-handed as it sounds, does not really deprive the House of the opportunity of discussing the purposes to which the money is voted. It is simply a vote "on account," and its details will all come up separately in "supply " later in the Session, Tucidentally Mr. Balfour paid a high tribute to Mr. Redinoud's abilities, "The lon, gentleman," he suid, "is endowed above his fellows, above, I hud almost suid, any man in this House, with the talents which would enable him to be whut so many of hin countrymen have Been in the past, n dis tinguished ornament and member of the Brentet free assunbly in the world" high praise indeed from a political opponent, THE COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTION, Most people who had watched the course of the County Council contest were pured for another Progressive victory; but. the crushing defeat which hay been inflicted on the' Couservatives—as they lieve themselves elected to be called—hux e oded the most extravagant expectations, Lhe borly consists of 118 elected Councillors and 19 Aldermen, who are appointed by Uve Cowucil itself for ax years, and of avhot wine lid to retire at this election, OF the ALS cottucillors elected, 86 are Progressiver, and only 82 Conservatives; of the Aldermen Jin office eight ure Progressives uni two Conservatives and of the ning Aldermanic seats to to be filled the Progressives propose—by way of not being' tuo greeds—to allow three to their opponents, The full Council will therefure consist ut exactly hundred Progressives and 37 Conservatives. Seeing that London in Iintics is the mostyConservative reagland, this is a truly remarkable result, It is partly recounted for, we doubt, by the action of the water companies, which recently tried to force on London the compulsory adoption of cisterns and other regulations to which London strongly objected. Just before the election they" withdrew these regulations; but it was too Into, Their notion had already aroused resent t the Conservative members of who had been in the main defenders of the water companies, and approved of the Progressives who hid fought. the companies. But this does not explain. the whole election. The Progressives have ruled the Council ever since Mr. Ritchie Land however Unionist and Imcreated it, and one must conclude that
penalist in Parliamentary polities, are in inbour of a "Progressive rather than a Conservative" policy in snunicipal matters, They refuse, too, to believe that Imperial politics have anything to do with municipal administration. The ' Moderates" have
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