POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
Again we are forced to apologize for the brevity and imperfection of our report of the Friday's debate in the Commons,—occasioned by the crowded state of our pages and the late hour at which the leading Morning Papers were published. We regret this more especially as it prevents our giving some extracts from the impressive speech of Mr. GRoTE; who put the real question at issue calmly. but resolutely, to the House. Mr. GROTE admitted that he was not solicitous for an arrangement of the present differences between the two Houses of Parliament : for, he said, " when the two Houses were constantly en- -gaged in an inglorious struggle,--when the House of Commons was con- stantly endeavouring to ascertain with how little concession the Lords -could be satisfied,—it was far better that the fact should be proclaimed openly and unreservedly to the People; and that it should be left to .them to choose, whether they would be governed by the principles of a majority of the House of Lords, or by those of a majority of the House of Commons; the reconcilement of the two being a matter of abso- lute impossibility." And he also observed, that, though not the person to speak lightly of a collision, " let a collision come when it might, it -could not be on a nobler and more important question." These opi- nions were enthusiastically cheered by the House. Mr. SIIEII. brought all the force of his rhetoric to bear on the same point ; and eloquently challenged the Tories to test the popularity of their principles of government by a dissolution of Parliament and an appeal to the country. Sir ROBERT] PEEL floundered in details, and in bad logic. Mr. O'CONNELL again and again struck the chord which he has found by experience to be alit which awakens the deepest and loudest echoes in the breasts of both Irishmen and Englishmen— England has got Corporate Reform ; Scotland has got Corporate Reform ; will you deny it to Ireland?" Lord STANLEY admitted the unpopularity of the course be was pursuing, but announced his reso- lution not to be driven from it."
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