LATEST EUROPEAN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 473, 4 February 1881, Page 3

LATEST EUROPEAN.

( fIKDTEI'.'s Tia.HOKAMS.)

(Special to Tin: Ma l.)

London, Feb. 2,

The House of Commons has been sitting for the last twenty-four hours on the Irish Coercion Bill. There have been continuous motions for adjournment by the Irish members, but all have been negatived. Scandalous scenes have occurred, and violent language lias been used by the obstructors. The speaker has frequently warned them that their action was verging on wilful obstruction, which could be punished by the House. Mr John Bright made a speech, in the course of which lie characterised the conduct of the Irish members as a gross insult to the House and Govermont and stated that the latter would shortly apply a remedy for such obstruction as was being pursued. The | debate still proceeds. i

The steamship Norfolk left Plymouth yesterday morning at 10 p.m. for Lyttelton.

To-day, owing to the scandalous scenes which continued to occur in the House, the Speaker put a stop to the debate. Great disturbance thereupon ensued, and did not cease until the Irish members left the House in a bodj There being still a quorum present, the Coercion Bill was then read a fin t time, and the second reading will be taken at noon to-day