POSTSCRIPT.
SAT1INDA.Y.
The "loud cheers" that greeted Lord John Russell's proposal, last night, to take two days' holyday next week, betrays the usual effect of past idleness in provoking the appetite for more. Loyalty dictates the adjournment over her Majesty's birthday, and it was not worth while to meet for only "ono Order "on Wednesday. The reporters owe Lord John a good turn ; one Member alone, perhaps, owes him a grudge for the indulgence.
It will increase Mr. Disraeli's difficulty. Last night again he inag- nanimously waived division—the House being thin, his own side thinnest. The instinct of holydaymaking is upon his men, the voice of duty or of Disraeli is faint in their ears ; and to that demoralization Lord John adds more of the lotus-food.
Last night's murmurs against chaplains and Protestant grants are thii natural reaction on the attempt to counteract Romanist tenets by render- ing the Maynooth tenement untenantable for want of repairs ; and Mr. Cobden's declaration against all endowments, "although his mother took him to the Church," is a new political fact.
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