18 MAY 1861, Page 3

The debate on the budget has been again postponed. Nominally,

it came off on Monday and Thursday, but the discussion was alto- gether sterile. The speeches contained few new points, and the Tories declined to take a division on the second reading. It is un- derstood that they will take one in committee, but even this is im- probable. The struggle really ended with the majority of eighteen lor Government, and further resistance only protracts the bitter feeling the budget has produced. The bill will be sent to the Lords as a single measure, a plan which, though angrily discussed, its -opponents knew to be constitutional.