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THE SITN,! LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING; 'JUNE S. 1861

even against propositions of the present Chancellor of the
Exchequer of an earlier date. The noble lord laughed
at the Government for talking of the weather as such
an important element in the disappointment of their
expectations, but in malt and hops there was a deficiency
in the autumn of £1,000,000, attributable of course
to the weather, and something like £900,000 was lost upon
spirits, one of the chief reasons for which was that the
weather had made the barley unfit for use. A great deal of.
irrelevant matter had been introduced into the discussion,
which he did not think it necessary to go into. He should
not enter into the financial statement of Mr. Gladstone, and
it would be even more out of place to go into the question
mooted by the noble earl (Earl Grey) with regard to the
Government having borrowed money last year for fortifica-
tions. Again, with regard to the construction of a certain
class of ships now building, to which the noble earl had ob-
jected, he thought that a very fair subject for debate, but
certainly not upon the present occasion. (Hear, hear.) But
the noble earl had referred to rumours of disunion in the
cabinet. The noble earl, from his intimacy with members
of the cabinet, should not have been so indiscreet as to al-
lude to any such rumours. If such disunion did exist it
could .only have come to the noble earl in private conversa-
tion, and he would in that case be discreet enough not to
inform any of his friends upon the subject, and his sense of
honour would be sufficient to prevent him alluding to it,:or
he must gather it from rumour and then there was even
less justification for its being mentioned. But the noble
earl was the last person to talk about such rumours, for
when he (Earl Granville) was young in political life he re-
collected the prevalence of a rumour amongst the clubs that
under Lord Melbourne the noble earl objected violently to
all the measures proposed in the cabinet, and that Lord
Melbourne requested him at last to set down in writing his
objection. The noble earl, it was said, declined to do so,
and therefore Lord Melbourne rubbed his hands and said,
"Now you have no one to object to but yourself you can-
not get on." (Laughter.) Regarding the policy of the
measure under discussion, he thought that they had a suf-
ficient lesson that prophecies were not safe things to indulge
in. He believed the present scheme was a prudent and
well considered one; that it was wise in principle, and
likely to lead to the same happy result that all similar mea-
sures for the removal of restrictions from commerce had
succeeded in accomplishing.
The bill was then read a second time.
Their lordships adjourned at 10 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,—YESTERDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the Great Northern Railway
(Purchase of Hereford, &c., Railway) Bill were considered
and ordered for third reading.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Bognor Railway ; Kingstown Improvement; Leven and
East of Fife Railway Companies (Amalgamation, &c.) ;
Leven and East of Fife Railways (Extension, &c.); and
South Wales Mineral Railway.
The following bills were considered and ordered for third
reading :—Bolton Corporation, and Ware, Hadham, and
Buntingford Railway.