Mr.Sexton asked a formal question, and gave notice of a motion of censure on the Chairman.

Mr.Mellor took the chair amid a wild outburst of Tory cheers; and we got back to the tranquil consideration of clause nine, and to a delightful, good-humoured historical speech by Mr.Swift McNeill on the representation of Trinity College, Dublin.
[Sidenote: Divisions.] The old story came back to our minds on July 13th of the historic scene at Tyburn when all the traitors were hanged in succession.

When the first head was held up there was an awful shudder; the shudder was less vivid when the second head was held up; and when the executioner accidentally dropped the third there was a loud and mocking shout of "Butter-fingers." So it was in the House that night until the dinner hour came; but as ten o'clock approached, the House filled and there was a rise in the excitement.

The scene, however, bore no comparison to the frenzied excitement of the preceding Thursday--it was evident we were going to have an anti-climax, and the whole arrangement of the Opposition broke down in an important and essential point.

On the previous occasion Mr.Balfour, by preconcerted plan, was speaking at the moment when the guillotine fell--with the idea, of course, of bringing into greater relief the wickedness of the Government.