But the hurricane of passion which had been let loose was not to be so easily appeased; and when, presently, Mr.John Morley put an end to the ridiculous and irrelevant discussion which threatened to land the House of Commons into the consideration of the arcana of a Freemason's Lodge, there burst from the Tory benches one of the fiercest little storms of remonstrance I have ever heard.

When the closure is proposed, there is but one way of expressing emotion.

Under the rules of the House, the motion must be put without debate.

So when the word of doom is pronounced by the Minister, all that remains is for the Speaker or Chairman to refuse or accept the motion; and if he accept the motion, he simply rises, and, uttering the fateful words, "The question is that the motion be now put," guillotines all further speech.

But then he has to put the question, and in the answering words of "Aye" or "No," there can be put an immense fund of passion.