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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1868.

Mr. DISRAELI appears to have taken a wise
course, and on the whole the house of Commons
appeared to be with him. No doubt certain parties
are disappointed, but the general business of the
country is more likely to prosper under existing
arrangements than if the wishes of the Opposition
had been fulfilled, and the reins of power changed
hands once more. The right hon. gentleman in-
formed the House of the course which he proposed
to take with respect to the Scotch Reform Bill, and
stated that neither Mr. BAXTER'S nor Sir R.
KNIGHTLEY'S amendments were agreeable to the
Government, but still it was not impossible for
them to take them into consideration and
see which best suited the temper of the
House, but Mr. BOUVERIE'S amendment was quite
of another character, and the Government were
disappointed that the Committee should have ac-
cepted it. Still the Premier went on to say that
they believed the vote had been arrived at prema-
turely, and that they also believed that a general
misunderstanding existed to the effect, that after
the vote on Mr. BAXTER'S amendment had been
taken the House would not proceed with the bill
any more that night. This is exactly the state of
the case, and recent experience has fully testified
to the truth of it. The best proof of the matter,
being unexpected, is that every one was taken by
surprise at the announcement the next morning.
The amendment would affect the character of the
English Reform Bill, and the Government felt
compromised iu respect to it, and therefore Mr.
DISRAELI hoped most earnestly that the Committee
would reconsider their determination. In order to
afford them an opportunity of doing so, he sug-
gested that the question should be discussed in a
fuller house, and for that purpose he announced his
intention of inserting words to the effect that no
one should vote who had not paid his rates.
The exact words will be laid on the table this even-
ing, and the proviso will be taken from the Scotch
Poor-Law Act. We hope that by this means the
difficulty will be overcome, and that the Scotch
Reform Bill may be speedily settled.

There is no reason at all why this should not
answer every purpose, although there were a few
dissentients, and some hon. members thought fit to
indulge in very unnecessary comments on the state
of affairs. It is really a relief to notice Mr. Os-
BORNE'S quaint remarks as to the possibility of
carrying too far the amusing process of " baiting a
Minister." Mr. BRIGHT seemed also anxious to
put an end to the strife, if possible, and de-
clared that a Ministerial crisis twice a week was
too much for him, and neither was it creditable to
the House or the Government. Mr. BOUVERIE made
a most extravagant speech, which was not at all
approved of by the House, and, indeed, met with
frequent interruptions. On the whole, the hon.
member did not better his cause at all with the
House by the virulent course which he adopted,
and only exhibited the disappointment he felt at the
Government endeavouring to reinstate things in
working order. It is deeply to be regretted that
the course of this Session should be so disturbed by
these malcontent spirits. Mr. GLADSTONE iS the
most to blame, but there is no excuse to be made
for those who so willingly aid and abet him in his
work.

Mr. HARDY made a very effective speech, which
was loudly cheered, and evidently carried the House
with it. He said that he longed for a decision of the
House on the point of the confidence of the House
with respect to the Ministry. The vote of Monday,
he declared, was an unfair one, and as to the insi-
nuations of certain hon. members, he avowed the
determination of the Ministry to meet any charges
brought against them in a definite shape, and he
defied any one to prove that they had acted in a
dishonourable manner, publicly or politically.
Were not the circumstances of the case so
serious it would really be amusing to notice how
much ado is made about nothing by these sapient
judges. Has not the Government expressed its
wish to appeal to the country as soon as possible,
and are not those who complain of their stopping
in in the face of hostile divisions conspiring to cause
those divisions to take placer and then turning
round and abusing them for the delay oc-
casioned? Really a stranger might well ima-
gine that the present House had just
re-assembled after the opinion of the country had
been taken at a general election, a course that the
Ministers would not wish after repeated votes of
want of confidence had been passed. Nothing but
this could possibly excuse the language of Mr.
BOUVERIE, and indeed of some others ; but a little
patience will overcome the difficulty, and in the
debate of last night we can discern signs of the
general feeling of the House getting wearied to
death of this never-ending opposition of a perverse
faction. To-night the Suspensory Bill comes on,
and Mr. HARDY moves that it be read this day six
months, so that there will be renewed excitement;
but we hope, for the credit of the House, that there
will be no recurrence of personalities, which can
effect no purpose, and are by no means creditable
to the llouse.

The importance of a thoroughly efficient system
of irrigation throughout the whole of India is be
corning more and more widely- recognised. The
terrible famine of Orissa, with its sacrifice of a
million of lives, served to point the moral of all
that had been said and written for years unheeded
with awful emphasis. It was felt that for a Go-
vernment to persist in ignoring those means which
competent authorities believed would be effectual
i❑ preventing the recurrence of so appalling a cala-
mity would henceforward be something worse than
foolish or neglectful. We find that both the Home