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LONDON LETTER. Specially Wired. By Cur Own Correspondent. LONDON, TuesdayNight. There was nothing of importance in the House of Lords this evening, and the hand- ful of peers who spent three-quarters of an hour in the gilded chamber seemed decidedly bored. Lord Grimsthorpe took his seat with the usual ceremonial. His new lordship was formerly Sir Edmund Beckett, chiefly known as the designer of Big Ben the cracked, at Westminster. The Marquis of ilipoa, replying tc Lord Sidmouth, said the Govern- ment were considering the question of coast defence. A glowing eulogy of the general abilities of Sir E. Henderson, who has just resigned the Chief Commisslonship of Metro politan Police, having been pronouueed by Lord Aberdare. Lord Thurlow promised that in any future dealings with Sir Edmund the Home Secretary would bear this testi- monial in mind. Comparatively speaking, the House of Commons had a holiday, Tuesday being sacred to motions brought forward by private members, and the particular resolu tions which had gained the first places on the paper not being of great interest to the majority of members, the House was, therefore, less crowded at ques- tion time that on any day since the formal opening, the Treasury Bench showing many vacant places. Sir George Balfour seized the opportunity to resume his here- ditary seat in the corner, at other times occupied by the Irish Attorney-General, when that officer manages to become a member. The intense anxiety with which Mr Howard Vincent watches over the destiny of England is well known. He lately became a Tory to save us all from going to perdition, and, therefore, the unimportant nature of to-msht's business was at once clear when the hon. gentleman was seen promenading in the Speaker's Gallery, and leaning over to shake hands with distin- guished strangers, very much to his own satisfaction, but decidedly to the discomfort I s. of the occupants of the seats. j There we re 41 questions on the paper, 0171 being Jrish. One of the latter, set down by Mr W. Abraham, would have filled half a column of a newspaper, and the subject was of corresponding importance, being no less than a query whether a quantity of hay, the property of Nicholas Darcy, of County Limerick, was burnt on the 1st October. Mr Broadhurst was the subject of an attack in the shape of notice of a question. Mr Gent Davis, reading an extract from the Brighton Gazette to the effect that 14 years ago Mr Broadhurst, now Under-Secretary for the Home Department, was ringleader in a great strike, and under the strict surveillance of the police, it could therefore hardly be expected that he would give the necessary orders to prevent the riot in the West End, asked was this true, and, if not, would the paper be prosecuted for a gross libel. The notice was delivered amid volleys of groans and cheers, the latter being accompanied by incessant repetitions of the syllable "Yaw, yaw." I Mr Broadhurst allowed the notice to pass, making thereby a mistake, as it is always better in politics to answer an accusation at once. Replying to Mr Cobb, Sir L. Playfair said it was not the intention of the Govern- ment to deal with any such question as free education in elemencary schools until they were acquainted with the results of the Education Commission. Mr Bryce, questioned by Mr B. Coleridge, said the Government were not of opinion I that this was a favourable moment to approach the Sultan with a view of obtain- ing from him a concession of territory for Greece. The Under-Secretary was loudly cheered by the Opposition as he sat down, whilst the Ministeralists appeared rather to regret that the peace of liurope rendered it necessary to bolster up the unspeakable 10 Turk. The notices and questions were gone through rapidly, being disposed of in three- quarters of an hour. Sir Joseph McKenna then called atten- tion to the inequality of imperial taxation in Ireland, and moved for returns on the subject. The hon. baronet is supposed to ¡ be an authority on finance, having been for many years chairman of the National Bank, but his manner is most depressing, and the House evidently suifered during the hour or so that he was on his feet. It is only just to add that Sir Joseph has an exceedingly bland and amiable manner which throws discredit on the report that hb took eviction proceedings against some of his tenants. There were at the beginning of the evening rumours of the possibility of a count out, the subject of Irish taxation being the one which in former Parliaments would probably have failed to secure a quorum. The new members, how- ever, have now to be considered, and probably, if there had been any definite hope fora count, they would, out of mere curiosity, have attended in sufficient num- bers to prevent it. There were also the Irish members to be considered. Fifty or sixty of them sat in a solid body below the Opposition gangway, and by their general display of papers and blue- books give rise to the fear that theyjmeant to make a night of it. Even they, however, were not enthusiastic, while the rest of the House was decidedly listless throughout the debate. Sir Joseph McKenna's motion was seconded by Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, great grandson of the great Grattan. Received I with a cheer by the Parnellites, he rose with a blush upon his cheeks, and made his maiden speech with a combination of modesty and self-pos3ession very pleasing to see, Sir G. Campbell proposed as an amend- ment that "Ireland should be left out of the motion, and "Scotland" substituted The taxation of whiskey being one of the points at issue, the hon. gentlemen won the approval of the Parneliites by remarking that Scotland consumed more whiskey than Ireland, and, as if to iliustrate the asser- tion, he produced a small bottle, uncorked it, and drank some of the brownish liquor it contained.

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