In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, Mr. Callan,—to whom,
according to Mr. Bright, his remarks had no application, until Mr. Callan himself asserted in the House of Commons on that day that he might " almost " say Lord Spencer was guilty of the murder of Myles Joyce,—called attention to Mr. Bright's remarks as a breach of privilege ; whereupon Mr. Bright stated that there was nothing in these remarks which he could in any way retract or recall, but if, though spoken out of the House, they had been in derogation of the rules of the House, he should submit himself at once to the ruling of the Speaker. The Speaker gave no ruling, but called upon Mr. Bright to retire ; and then the Chancellor of the Exchequer arose, and spoke of Mr. Bright's speech as one which would certainly have been out of order in the House; and while implicitly censuring Mr. Bright for his language, he deprecated the interference of the House as in- expedient. This called up Lord Hartington, who protested against the notion that, while the most hideous charges were brought against Lord Spencer both in the House and out of it, it should be held unseemly and improper to characterise those hideous charges in an energetic fashion. For Irish Members who had indulged in such boundless license of speech, to come "whining to the House" to complain of that license of speech being characterised with equal frankness by others, seemed to him a proceeding which the Parnellite leaders themselves could hardly have approved.
