Dr.Hunter is interested in the new railway rates, and for Tuesday, March 14th, he had a motion down in reference to railway rates.

Finally, several members are interested in bimetallism, and for Tuesday, February 28th, a motion on this subject was designed.

What, then, Mr.Gladstone proposed meant that Dr.Hunter could not propose his motion of railway rates; that the member interested in payment of members could not propose his motion; that the motion on bimetallism could not be proposed; in short, that these gentlemen, and their motions and their time, should be swallowed up by the voracious maw of the Government.

This description will suffice to bring before the mind of any reader the difficulty and danger of the situation.
[Sidenote: Disappointed Office-seekers.] I tread on somewhat delicate ground when I tell the story of the manner in which some members of the Liberal party utilised this situation.

It is no secret that there are in this, as in every House of Commons, a number of gentlemen who do not think that their services have been sufficiently appreciated by the Minister to whom the unhappy task was given of selecting his colleagues in office.