NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TT ought to be an offence for Members of Parliament to end a great division on Friday night. What is the use of Parliament except to furnish materials for the journals ? and how are they to be used if they are supplied after the time of going to press? The debate, resumed last night by Mr. Coleridge, whose speech was a model of close logic and persuasive eloquence which attracted universal admiration, was continued by Mr. Stansfeld in an able and vigorous speech. Mr. Disraeli delivered a rambling and disjointed string of jocosities and abstractions, by no means equal to his last Irish speech, which rather wearied the House ; and Mr. Gladstone closed in a reply of considerable felicity. The division showed, for Mr. Gladstone's motion, 330; against it, 270. Majority for Mr. Gladstone, 60.
