The Pall Mall Gazette, a week or two ago, in
a rather snappish little paragraph, on what it described, we think, as the random statements of this journal, threw doubt upon our assertion that the newspapers would not report debates occurring after midnight. Unfortunately there are a good many debates of considerable in- terest occurring early enough in the evening which very few of the newspapers now report in more than two or three lines,— witness the report in all the papers, except the Times, of the in- teresting discussion in the Lords on the Habitual Criminals Act of 1869, reported in the morning papers of last Wednesday,—but if the Pall Mall wishes to be convinced that debates of real interest occurring after midnight get little more than mere mention, even in the Times, let our contemporary ask any of the members pre- sent at the animated Pauperism debate on the "Pauper Inmates Discharge and Regulation Bill" of yesterday week, what propor- tion the third of a column devoted to that debate in the Times of this day week bore to the speeches actually delivered.
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