12 AUGUST 1893, Page 2

Mr. Logan comes out very badly from the correspondence concerning

the nature of the agreement entered into behind the Speaker's chair. No one pretends that it was understood that Mr. Hayes Fisher was to apologise first. Every one but Mr. Marjoribanks and Mr. Logan hold that it was fully under- stood that Mr. Logan would apologise first, and even Mr. Marjoribanks says that he (Mr. Marjoribanks) quite took this for granted, though he denies that there was any explicit engagement on the subject. What appears certain is that Mr. Logan availed himself, in the absence of any explicit con- tract on the subject, of the assumption of the whole party that he would rise first, to conceal his own intention of leaving that duty to Mr. Hayes Fisher. But he has gained only dis- credit by his manoeuvre.