Lord John'Manners made a speech on Tuesday at Ipswich, but
it contains very little. The Postmaster-General is not surprised at Turkish victories, because Lord Poneonby once told him that he dreaded nothing so much for Turkey as the help of the Western Powers. Turkey always beat Russia, if she were left alone. He had "treasured that statement up in his mind," and had he heard of the battle of the 15th before Kars, he would probably have left it there. Ho hoped for peace, from the character of the two Emperors. With regard to home affairs, the Government had assailed no interest, had put the coping-stone on University reform, and had improved "the machinery of the Established Church,"—viz., the Episcopate. The Ministry would proceed as it had begun, " And if you want to know the most important measures which her Majesty's Ministers are likely to propose in the ensuing Session, I can only refer you to those admirably designed, but abortive measures which were introduced into Parliament during the present year, but which, owing to the conduct of the Irish Obstructives, were not placed upon the Statute-book." As far as Lord John Manners knows, therefore, the Ministry intend to do nothing next Session except pass a few Bills, for which Parliament cared so little that it allowed half-a- dozen Irish Members to talk them out. The House of Commons is to be left idle,—that is, to be the sport of crotchetty Members, members with reputations to make, and bores.
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