17 MAY 1862, Page 5

POSTSCRIPT.

No business of importance was transacted in the House of Lords last night. .

In the House of Commons, the alleged challenge to a rifle match from the Speaker to the Lord Chancellor was made the subject of a question by Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, and Lord Er' ...C110 explained that the matter had arisen out of a misconception, caused by a joke of the Speaker's.