Parliament re-opened yesterday with a stormy scene. Members have, of course, been called together really for the pur pose of carrying through the Education j Bill; but there is also a good deal other business left over from the carlie: portion of the session, and as the Irish members are determined that their country shall occupy a goodly share attention the Government will have to make a very drastic use of the closure if they intend to get their work through by Christmas. During the recess several Irish members have been sent te prism. under the Crimes Act for intimidation and those left in the House are in a ver: excited condition. The probabilities of disorder are for the time mnervased, toc, by the absence of Mr. John Redmond, who is paying a flying visit to America The Nationalist leader recognises that there is a limit beyond which it is inexpedient to carry disorder, and he ha: immense influence over his followers Last night Mr. John O'Donnell had just risen to speak when the closure wa: moved. He declined to sit down, and amid prodigious uproar moved right across the House to where the Prime Minister was sitting on the Front Minis terial Bench. His words were inaudible. to nearly everyone, but he is understood to have been expressing in plain term his contempt for Mr. Balfour. Of cours he was suspended from the service of th: House.
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