Mr. Fawcett, baulked of his prey, asked on Wednesday for
a Government night, on the ground that, as Mr. Gladstone had made a Government question of the Trinity College Bill, and so deprived him of his best chances of bringing it on on private members' evenings, it should be discussed on a Government day. 'This Mr. Gladstone refused, urging very justly that the regular business of the country ought not to be interrupted for many Lights together except for an explicit vote of want of confidence, which this was not. Accordingly, on Thursday Mr. Fawcett moved the adjournment of the House in order to assail the Government and air his wrongs, and was seconded by Dr. Lyon Playfair, who complained that he had thought their Bill "only a star of the sixth magnitude, but all on a sudden he found it was a blazing sun, which scorched friends as well as foes," warned the Government that if they used the official screw so often they would break the machine in pieces, and sarcastically described the question of University education in Ireland as being, in Mr. Gladstone's words, one of the branches of that celebrated " upas tree" which is now, and hag for some time been, bearing such bitter fruit to the Government. To taut on000ndod Mr. Bouverie, who made a savage attack on Mr. Gladstone for advertising Par- liament of what he would do through the Daily News, and quoted Mr. Gladstone's Wednesday reply, taunting the Prime Minister with "the enormous involution of the language," and declaring that there had been a "system of manceuvring " at work in the matter "repellent to the best feelings of English gentlemen."
