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instead of a three or four days' debate on the question that Clause 2 stand part of the Bill, reasonable expedition might be confidently anticipated in getting to Clause 10 or Clause 20, or any other Clause containing really debateable matter. It will be borne in mind that any haste or carelessness in Committee admits of rectification at the next stage when the Bill is considered as amended in the full House. And with the opportunities that exist both for recommitting a Bill at a subsequent stage, and for its further amendment in the second House of Parliament, it may fairly be questioned whether such an experiment would unduly confine the provision made for examination in detail. It would probably be found expedient that the House should delegate to a small Standing Committee the function of fixing the limit of time for consideration of each Bill in Committee, and in the chair of such a committee it would be desirable to place the Speaker or Chairman of Ways and Means. With such safeguards it may be prognosticated that some regularity would be effected without much risk of important measures being 'rushed' through the Commons; but the remedy is undeniably a very drastic one, and should not be attempted until other means have been found to fail.

It will beyond doubt be an occasion both for shame and anxiety. if matters should be allowed to drift to such a pass, that a treatment even so remotely akin to the genuine clôture should be found indispensable, even if it is to operate only within the limited area of the Committee of the whole House. If the principle is once accepted, it will be found increasingly difficult to resist its application in a more stringent form and on a more extended field. The enemies of free discussion, and these are to be found at least as often among the doctrinaires and philosophic politicians as among the rude perverters of our parliamentary procedure, will certainly not be slow to press further any innovation which may serve to augment the tyrannical pressure of a tyrant majority. While therefore I must confess myself unable to conceive any state of things which could make the clôture itself an improvement in the transaction of Parliamentary business, I am most unwilling to see adopted any procedure which might tend to its introduction, until every other imaginable reform has had a trial. But, as far as I can judge, there is as yet no reason to despair of the House of Commons. If those who lead it will rise to a due sense of the crisis through which it is passing, and will have the courage to arraign before the House those who have openly striven to cripple and to thwart it in the discharge of its duties, we shall soon have heard the last of real Obstruction for many a year to come. If these should shrink from their duty-and they may unhappily point to great hesitation in realising what that duty was on the part of their predecessors-it will still be open to the House itself to vindicate its privileges and its authority. When those who glory in what should be their shame have met their deserts,

and when any attempt to follow their example has been sternly repressed by such a Standing Order as has been sketched above, the House will have breathing time so to remodel some of its more dilatory forms as to diminish the opportunities for vulgar vanity, or factious manoeuvre to impede its deliberations. And it will be well that the chance should not be thrown away. But let not that body which, as Lord Sherbrooke has eloquently said, constitutes now the single anchor of the State, fail to hold its own against the tornado which seems to perplex the present at least as much as the former crew. If the vessel is to be allowed to drive before the gale, she will, as we all know, be speedily among the breakers. But if it is attempted to set her head in a particular direction without ascertaining the direction or force of the wind, she may quite as probably find herself on her beam-ends. Those who confound Parliamentary opposition, even when it is most factious, with the new theory of resistance to constitutional authority which has grown up during the last few years, are only less dangerous to the liberties of the House of Commons than the Obstructors themselves. If the latter are summarily dealt with, the former may, at least for the time, be safely disregarded. But if a policy of disregard is still to be maintained in the case of those who brave the displeasure of Parliament, it is only too likely that the day is not far distant when the resentment provoked by it may bring within the range of practical politics even such a proposal as Lord Sherbrooke's. After King Log comes King Stork. This House of Commons has not yet had time to prove whether with the reputation it has inherited the wisdom of more ancient Parliaments. If it wishes to be thought wise, it must be wise in time.

HENRY CECIL RAIKES.

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ABBOTT (Dr. E.), his 'Hellenica,' Bleeding to Death, 157-176

reviewed, 336

Aberdeen administration, the, 999-1001
Africa, South, responsible government

in, 241-244, 933-937

Africa, South, 933-954

Blomfield (Bishop) on Sunday occupa-
tions, 710

Blunt (W. Scawen), The Thoroughbred
Horse, English and Arabian, 411-
423

Aidé (Hamilton), his 'Poet and Peer,' Board of Works, the Metropolitan, 774-

reviewed, 339

America, a Stranger in, 67-87

'Apple Blossoms,' reviewed, 337-338
Arabian racehorse, the, 416-423

Arnold (Matthew), The Future of
Liberalism, 1-18

Arrian, his treatise on hunting, 965–967
Art, Modern French, 56-66

Art Collections, our National, and Pro-
vincial Art Museums, 249-265
Assurance, Industrial, State Aid and
Control in, 275-293

Assyrians, hunting among the, 552-553
Atheism, 545

Atheism and Repentance, 19-41
Atheists, no statute for the admission to
Parliament of, 181

BACILLUS anthracis, 857-858

Barbarossa, wars of, 751-755
Baroda, administration of, 162
Barry (Canon), The Burials Bill and
Disestablishment, 501-512

Basuto war, the, 935-936

Boll (Professor Graham), the photo-
phone invented by, 844
Bhaunagar, Mr. Percival's administration
of, 163

Birmingham Musical Association, the,
927-928

Bismarck (Prince) on the formation of
public opinion, 10

Black (Clementina), her 'Orlando,' re-
viewed, 339

Blackley (Rev. W. Lewery), The
House of Lords and National Insur-
ance, 107-118

Blackmore (R. D.), his 'Mary Anerley,'
reviewed, 339

Blasphemy, meaning of, 756-759

776

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Bret Harte, stories by, reviewed, 338
Bribery and Corruption, 824-843
Bright (John), his character as an em-
ployer, 72 note

Britain, colonial empire of, 246-247
British Constitution, religious basis of,
178-180

Brown (Gerard Baldwin), Modern
French Art, 56-66

Bryant (William Cullen), his criticisms
of the English language, 434-440
Buddhism, the Obligations of the New
Testament to, 971-994

Bunbury (E. H.), his Ancient Geogra
phy, reviewed, 326

Bunyan, English of, 426-427
Burials Bill, 16

Burials Bill, the, and Disestablishment,
501-512

- the Probable Results of the, 1019-
1030

Burton (Dr.), his history of Queen Anne,
reviewed, 330-331

Buxton (Sydney C.), Bribery and Cor-
ruption, 824-843

Byron, poetry of, 396-408, 756

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AVIDSON (Dr. Samuel), on the

AIRD (Dr. John), on the philosophy DA Vanon of the Bible, reviewed, 316

of religion, reviewed, 316 317
Calthorpe (Lord), his proposals relative

to Arabian racehorses, 411, 422
Canada, a stranger's impressions of, 81-
82

origin of responsible government in,
237-239

Carlisle (Bishop of), The Philosophy of
Crayfishes, 622-637

Carnarvon (Earl of), A few more Words
on National Insurance, 384
Carpenter (Professor J. Estlin), The
Obligations of the New Testament to
Buddhism, 971-994

Caucus system, result of its adoption at
the late election, 568

Chase, the, its History and Laws, 550-
563, 955-970

Chautauqua Lake, a Convention of
Liberals at, 73-74

Cheyne (Rev. T. K.) on the prophecies
of Isaiah, reviewed, 315-316
Chicago, city of, 71

China, the Future of, 266-274
China, native opposition to railways in,

615

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895-920

Colonies, Representative Government in
the, 237-248

Colorado Sketch, a, 445-457

Commons, House of, Radical theory of
the function of the, 745

discussions in committee in the,
1043-1045

'Compensation for Disturbance Bill,
the split on the, 565

-Conservatism, the Philosophy of, 724-
747

Co-operation, prospects of, in America,
86

Cox (Robert), his bibliographic work on
the Sabbath question, 695, 710
Crayfishes, the Philosophy of, 622-637.
See also Huxley.

Creed, the, of the Early Christians, 207-
217

Creeds, the, Old and New, 526-549, 787-
809

Dawkins (Professor Boyd) on the classi-
fication of the tertiary period, 851-

856

Deák (Francis), memoir of, reviewed, 328
Deccan, the bill for the relief of the agri-
culturists in the, 159.160
Deism, 540-542

Déjazet (Virginie), 144-140
Demoniacal Possession in India, 646-652
Derby (Lord) on the development of our
manufacturing industries, 7

on the practicability of the National
Insurance scheme, 109

Devon Commission, the, 681-682, 864-
867

Dicey (Edward), The Egyptian Liquida-
tion, 458-473

Disestablishment, the Burials Bill and,
501-512

Dormeuil (M.), manager of the Palais-
Royal Theatre, 142-144

Dresden, Sunday in, 711

Drunkards, how to reform, 712-713
Duffy (Sir Charles), his 'Young Ire-
land,' 861, 864

Dumas, Alexandre, 653-671
Dunraven (Earl of), A Colorado Sketch,
445-457

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Wapiti-running on the Plains, 593-

611

Duval (E. Raoul), The Commercial
Treaty between France and England,
99-106

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Harrison (Frederic). The Creeds, Old
and New, 526-549, 787-809
Hartington (Marquis of) on the clôture
question, 50

Hayes (President) and his wife, 83
Heidenhain, his experiments on hypno-
tism, 474 479

Hewlett (Henry G.), The Works of Sir
Henry Taylor, 810-823

Heylin (Dr. Peter), his criticism of
English, 432

Hjaltalin (J. A.), his description of the
first settlement of Iceland, 219
Holyoake (George Jacob), A Stranger
in America, 67-87

Home Rulers, obstruction tactics of,
517, 520

Hood (Thomas), his Ode to Rae Wilson,
quoted, 713

Horse, the Thoroughbred, English and
Arabian, 411-423
Humanism, 535–537
Hunting, antiquity of, 550
real charm of, 448

Huxley (Professor), his Introductory
Science Primer, reviewed, 317-318
on the crayfish, reviewed, 320
Hyacinthe (M.), the French comedian,

154

Hyndman (H. M.), Bleeding to Death
157-176

Hypnotism, 474–480

Hysteria, peculiar manifestations of,
646-647

against Mr. O'Donnell, 43-45, 1040- ICELAND, 218-236

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his Irish Land Act, 306, 363-364, 639
Glenbervie (Lord), his definition of
bribery, 825, note

Gneiss, Laurentian, geological pheno-

mena connected with the, 850-851
Gnosticism and Buddhism, affinities
between, 990-992

Gordon (R.), his report on the Irra-
waddy, reviewed, 326

Gosse (E. W.), his poems, reviewed, 335
Gotama Buddha, 972-978

Grant (Rev. A. R.), Evils of Competitive

Examinations, 715-723

Grassot (M.), the French comedian, 149
Gratius Faliscus, his treatise on hunting,
960-961

Greeks, ancient, hunting among the,
558-563

Greenwich pensions, the, 116
Grey (Earl), South Africa, 933-954

Htional and Irrational, 424-443

ALL (Fitzedward), English Ra-

Hallett (Frederic F.), Our New Wheat-
fields at Home, 761-765

India, Demoniacal Possession in,
646-652

India, British and native administration
of, 163-164

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