1 AUGUST 1868, Page 1

The Session is at last over, and Mr. Disraeli either

thinks, or thinks it well to say, that it has been a singularly successful one, on which the country is to be congratulated. The Lord Mayor entertained her Majesty's Ministers at the Mansion House on Wednesday, and Mr. Disraeli took the opportunity to say that the condition of Ireland "ought to afford us the utmost congratu- lation." In that case certainly Mr. Disraeli is not hard to please, —at least after dinner. His reason for considering that the state of Ireland was a subject for "the utmost congratulation," was that the Ministers had not been obliged to avail themselves of the power given them by the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act for a considerable period. In other words, the condition of a country is one justifying the "utmost congratulation," if the civil law has been suspended there, but the suspension itself has been sufficient to deter intending transgressors, without any necessity on the part of the Government for using the larger powers thus best9wed. Mr. Disraeli is certainly grateful for small mercies, when his " utmost " hope seems to be exceeded by the suppression of active insurrection.