All the busybodies, as their manner is, rushed to the front; and hour after hour slipped away in an unseemly, intricate, and apparently interminable wrangle.

Sheil was duly called upon to give an assurance that the affair should not be carried beyond the walls of the House.

He refused to comply, and was committed to the charge of the Sergeant at Arms.

The Speaker then turned to Lord Althorp, who promised in Parliamentary language not to send a challenge.

Upon this, as is graphically enough described in the conventional terms of Hansard, "Mr O'Connell made some observation to the honourable Member sitting next him which was not heard in the body of the House.