Peers, living lives of perpetual holiday, have, it would seem,
a special interest in the holidays of other people. Their House was quite interested on Tuesday in a new holiday Bill, which was passed, and which discharges everyboly in England from any obligation on Christmas Day,—or the following day if the day is Sunday,—Good Friday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, and the
first Monday in August, for which last, however, their Lordships very stupidly neglected to find a - name. We beg to suggest Sober Monday, as the most violently distinctive title among Mondays which we are able to discover. Nobody of course is compelled to keep these holidays ; but as any tradesman who does. not is sure to be fined in the value of his windows, that is of no importance. A difficulty arose about Scotland, where the people,. the Duke of Argyle says, refuse to be "contaminated " by Eng- lish ideas, and keep Whit Sunday always on 15th May, unless indeed that date falls on Sunday, when to be consistently wrong they postpone it a day, and so the Scotch holidays are to be New Tear's. Day, Christmas Day, Good Friday, the first Monday of May, and the first Monday of August. The House, we think, might have• given the people one day more. Considering that one-third of the- population of London never saw a corn-field, two days in August, would not have been too much.
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