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If Lord Stanley were not very fortunate in rallying his

party, the legal advisers of the Government,—Mr. Brett, the Solicitor- General, who spoke the same evening, and the Irish Attorney- General, who spoke on Tuesday,—were still less so. They amply earned the condolence which Mr. Bernal Osborne so kindly tendered to the Prime Minister on Thursday night on the un- happy character of his legal advisers. Mr. Brett, besides his uncouth manner and tedious legal detail, fell into a considerable legal blunder, which Mr. Lawson, the Irish Attorney-General of the late Government, who followed him, corrected triumphantly. Certainly, the subordinate officials whom the Government have put up in the two Irish debates have caught Lord Mayo's own knack of wearying and almost stupefying the House.

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