In Committee there have been daring the week one or
two "scenes," especially on Tuesday night, when Mr. O'Don- nell got into a wrangle with the Chairman of Committees on his right to raise a new point of order, and was suss pended,—informally, as some newspaper reports and some
Members (English as well as Irish) alleged, through the omission of Dr. Playfair to name him by name,—formally, as other newspaper reports and other Members of the House alleged. On the same night, Mr. Finigan elegantly remarked that he was glad to hear from the Treasury Bench even "beastly bellowing," after so long a silence, words which the Chairman compelled him to withdraw, but which he said he withdrew only upon the Chairman's order, lost he should suffer the penalty of refusing to withdraw them ; while Mr. T. P. O'Connor termed Mr. Forster the "chief jailer of Ireland," and was glad. he had broken silence "for very shame, after the dirty work which he had been doing," and. was compelled to withdraw these words. We mention these last discreditable out- breaks only to show that there are Members whom the House might justly deprive for a season of the liberty of debate, when they use it in a manner so fatal to the dignity and honour of the Assembly to which they belong. The debates on the details of the Peace Preservation Bill have raised no point of interest, and. are possibly by this time at an end.
