The official theory is that Parliament is to break up
on the 12th August, but no date has yet been fixed. Mr. Disraeli has determined to pass the Education Bill, and a strong party within the House, headed by Mr. Russell Gurney, and favoured by Mr. Cross, desire also to pass the Prisons Bill. Two nights at least must be given to a serious debate on Turkey, and one Ito the dis- cussion of the Silver question, while Mr. Disraeli has at least a dozen minor but important Bills on hand which ought to be put through. The House, no doubt, 'works quickly, as Members retreat from the heat 'of London, but it is scarcely possible that everything should be finished in eight more working days. The result will probably be that every- thing except the Education Bill will -be abandoned, and that the Tory Government will be compelled to admit that its flimsy go-carts stick in Temple Bar as fast as ever the Liberal omnibuses have done. Apart from the Education Bill, the grand
achievenient of the Session will have been a Royal Titles Bill, driven through in the teeth of every educated man in England outside the Cabinet, and already, for all that appears, as dead as the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
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