PUGNACIOUS POLITICIANS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1815, 15 December 1879, Page 3

PUGNACIOUS POLITICIANS.

The " Daily News ” of October Bth thus refers to Sir Bryan O’loghlea’s challenge (o Mr Mclntyre to come outside the Parliament House and fight:—“ Members of Parliament who prefer amusement to the dignity of their Assembly may perhaps regret that Sir Bryan O’Loghlon did not see his way to accept the compliment of the electors who voted him his brother’s seat. Sir Bryan, it appears, has enlivened the Victorian Assembly considerably. On the 13th of August last some Estimates were submitted to that body which were far from satisfying all its members. The malcontents, we are told, ‘ raised a stone wall.’ By this it is not to bo understood that they imitated Balbus in his extraordinary passion for actual wallbuilding, but that they resorted to dogged and obstinate obstruction. The discussion * was very dreary,’ from which it would appear that obstructives who cross the seas do not change their nature. Whether it was that the stone wall reminded Sir Bryan of his native Ireland, and stirred him up to emulate the practices of the heroes of old, or that he is naturally short-tempered, we do not know; but the Attorney-General of Victoria is reported to have challenged another member to come out and fight. This, we think, has not recently been done at Westminster, though the lawns in Parliament square would afford a most tempting battle ground, with every facility for spectators. The turf, indeed, is in such excellent condition now that it might almost make a man in love with defeat to think that he should be sent to grass on so soft a carpet, and should quiver, not upon a common daisy, but on bedded-out plants of pleasing hues. Sir Bryan, indeed, apologised, as in these degenerate days challengers and challenged both are very apt to do ; but perhaps there was no convenient field of battle as at Westminster, so that his courage had time to cool;’’