POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
The Conservatives were playing their own game when they united so zea- lously with Ministers in order to carry the Irish Suppression Bill. They knew that the great strength of the Ministers lay in their popularity—in the confidence -which the public reposed in them. They knew, moreover, that the popularity of any Administration must be wrecked by a measure almost "too bad" for CASTLE REACH himself; and therefore they promised to support it when introduced by Earl GREY. The Conservative anticipations having been, to a certain extent, realized, it is not unlikely that there will now be so strong- a muster of Opposition Peers against the remedial measures—especially the Irish Church Reform Bill —that Ministers will be left in a minority. In such an event, we know that they are pledged to resign. The Standard of this evening publishes a letter from "one of the most able and excellent Members of the order," to a brother Peer, in which resistance to the Church Reform Bill is solemnly inculcated as a religious duty. It would not be very difficult certainly to turn out the Minis- ters: but let the Standard, or any "member of the order," tell us how the Conservatives are to get in, and especially to keep in, after the mighty deed is accomplished. "There's the rub."
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