Mr. Disraeli has managed the Corrupt Practices' Act with great
ability and address. He has ridden the House of Commons with a light rein on a question on which they would not have endured a hard hand and a fretting curb. When they have got overheated he has adjourned the discussion ; he has taken one or two import- ant defeats with good temper and yielded with alacrity, and now he is certain to carry his Bill. An acute observer believes that Mr. Disraeli cares for this Bill because he thinks "the residuum" Tory at heart unless the coarse influences of the purse are brought in to confuse their prepossessions, in which case he can depend on nothing. Mr. Disraeli intimated, on Thursday, but very wisely not till after the hardest battles had been fought out, that he should not advise Her Majesty to prorogue the House till the Corrupt Practices' Bill had become law, and we may be pretty cer- tain that he will now really have the credit,--the great credit,— of carrying it. His tact and sincerity in urging on this Bill have gone a good way to neutralize the bad impression produced by his tricky, pretentious, and clap-trap manifestoes on the Irish Church.
