Members shouted, Ministers prevaricated and grew angry, the Speaker intervened.

On the whole, it was rather a degrading spectacle.

I stood, or seemed to stand, and watched it all.

Oro, in his sweeping robes, which looked so incongruous in that place, stepped, or seemed to step, up to the principal personages of the Government and Opposition, whom I indicated to him, and inspected them one by one, as a naturalist might examine strange insects.

Then, returning to me, he said: "Come away; I have seen and heard enough.