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The second reading of the Suspensory Bill is fixed for

Friday, the 22nd, when the exhausted debate will, we may presume, begin afresh. The Tory object is to gain time, and as nobody ever convinces an opponent on ecclesiastical affairs that he is argumen- tatively dead, there is no particular reason why the debate should ever stop. Fortunately the tolerance of the House for cold scraps of mutton as intellectual food is limited, and the Bill may there- fore get into Committee this month. Then the wrangle over details will begin, and when it will be finished only Colonel S. Knox and that kind of member can be expected to know, possibly in mid-July, when the River will give Members a gentle hint that other things besides arguments can be offensively stale.

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