Last night Mr. Balfour laid before the House of Commons the new Rules of Procedure. They will no doubt give rise to Jong and keen debates before they are adopted; but the first_ impression "made by them is decidedly favourable. They provide for much more serious penalties jor deliberate infractions of order and deiiances of the Speaker's ruling; and even the Irish members can hardly produce any plausible arguments against this change, however much they may dislike it. For a first: offence the penalty will be suspension for twenty days instead of seven as at present; for a second offence forty days. and for 2 third offence eighty days. And these will be working days, "no account being taken of holidays or even prorogations. Hitherto the Nationalist rowdies have been able to create disturbances with practical impunity during the last two or three days of the Session, but
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