The usual "Massacre of the Innocents "began on Thursday, when
Mr. Smith, in asking for the whole time of the House, postponed the new Education Code till next year, and abandoned the Irish Drainage Bills. He was not very con- fident, either, about the Tithes Bill, and justly, as the Liberals are by no means willing to remove a farmers' grievance which tells so heavily on their side. Nor does he really believe in the "Notification of Diseases" Bill, which is strongly opposed, and is, we fear, a little in advance of lower-class opinion on the subject. He hopes, however, to carry the Local Govern- ment Bill, and the Scotch Universities Bill, and all Bills which have passed through Grand Committees ; and those Bills, with the measures for the increase of the Army and Navy, make up a fair, though not a very fruitful Session, the grand incident of which has been the formal splitting of the British Glad- stonians into two parties.
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