On this day they brought forward a Bill; but it was opposed until they had mended their ways with regard to the government of the town.

Mr.Morley, acting on the official view, urged that the Bill might be passed and this other question dealt with separately, but the Irish refused to be pacified, they went to a division, and with the aid of the Radicals they managed to defeat the Government by nine votes.

They celebrated the event by a hearty cheer.
[Sidenote: And so to the end.] The penultimate week in August went on--wearily, tamely, and monotonously.

It was, perhaps, the presence of the Speaker--it was, perhaps, the painful recollection of the scene of violence on a previous occasion--it was, perhaps, the universal exhaustion of the House; whatever the cause, the excitement on the night of August 25th was infinitely below what anybody would have expected.

Throughout the whole evening there was exactly the same spectacle as on previous evenings--that is to say, there was the same old obstructive group discussing exactly the same topics; raising the same objections; going into the same subtleties as if the Bill were just in its first stage; and there was the same dreary and universal emptiness of the House generally.