The debate of Tuesday on Maynooth brought the long-standing quarrel
between Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Whalley to a head. The Member for North Warwickshire complained piteously that Mr. Whalley had made the Maynooth question a laughing-stock of the House, and Mr. Whalley retorted that it was Mr. Newdegate's fault for not giving him advice. 41 Until he had got to the bottom of the thing, and had found out that there were Protestants and Protestants, he had been greatly puzzled by the conduot of the honourable member," meaning, we presume, that the only sound Protestant was the man silly enough to help Mr. Whalley. Mr. Newdegate thereupon affirmed that he had helped Mr. Whalley till he saw how lie was covering the cause with ridicule, and made a remark upon the difference between his capacity and that of the late Mr. Spooner which would have irritated most men, but to which Mr. Whalley good-naturedly shouted out "Agreed," and the matter dropped. By the way, what oorapensation is Mr. Whalley to get under the Church Bill ? By paying off Maynooth Mr. Gladstone deprives him of his raison deire, takes away his function in life, and leaves him to seek a new one. Surely a Whalley is as entitled to pity as a curate ?
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