There are still some of the hard Radicals from Scotland who have never wavered in the idea that the Irish members ought to remain at their full total.

They have been partially relieved by what Mr.Sexton had said.

But then Scotchmen are proverbially tenacious of opinion; and not even his appeal--joined to the appeal of their leader--will altogether change the purpose of those rugged sons of bonnie Scotland.

And so, Mr.Shaw, the member for Galashiels, gets up to ask a question.

He plainly declares that according to the answer given to this question, his vote would be given for or against the Government.
So we are still in all the agonies of possible delay, for we know that seven Parnellites will go against the Government--that counts fourteen on a division; and if only seven or ten more go the same way, there is a majority against Mr.Gladstone, and we are lost.