NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Conservative meeting at the Carlton Club on Thursday was a very large and not a very harmonious one. Lord Salisbury brought forward the proposal of the Government to take up Bills of importance that are not finished in one Session at the same stage in a succeeding Session, urging that nothing can be more unreasonable than to sanction in legislation a waste of energy which no one would sanction in any other proceeding. What would be said to a rule that a building stopped by a hard frost, must all be taken down again and commenced de novo whenever the thaw came P Mr. James Lowther objected to such new-fangled proposals as the sparing of the Innocents, though Lord Salisbury had only ventured to propose sparing exceptionally important Innocents. Mr. Hanbury seems to have vented his spleen generally against the Government; Mr. Talbot did not approve the Government proposal, and a great many other gentlemen preferred an autumn Session. That is all very well if an autumn Session taken alone were enough. But where is the guarantee that the autumn Session would not be utterly wasted, too P The meeting separated without taking any practical resolve. But there was a unanimous feeling against dropping any one of the three principal Government measures.
