When we went to press, Lord Cairns was discoursing in
the Peers about the mismanagement of business in the Commons, and Lord Granville was replying that the dead-lock was mainly pro- duced by the unprincipled manceuvres of a factious opposition. The statistics produced by Lord Cairns were curious. The Com- mons had seventy-three measures, most of them Government Bills, to pass, and eighteen Bills coming down from the Lords. It had also to consider the estimates for the Army, the Navy, and Educa- tion, and the Ballot Bill, which could not by possibility be passed, because their Lordship& amendments would not get down to the Commons till September. The motive of the speech seems to have been to state beforehand that the Ballot Bill could never pass the Lords at present, for sheer want of time ; but that difficulty could be remedied by an adjournment to October.
