Parliament met on Tuesday, after the adjournment ; but in
the House of Lords, Lord Granville only gave notice of his in- tention to move, on Thursday, a vote of thanks to the com- manders, officers, and men of Her Majesty's Forces in-Egypt, and Lord Salisbury of his intention then to question Lord Glanville as to the policy of her Majesty's Government in Egypt. In the House of Commons, Lord Randolph Churchill at once moved the adjournment of the House, in order to assail the Government for its departure from the "invariable" practice of refusing to pass the Appropriation Bill till the whole business of the Session had been concluded, the Constitutional reason for this course being that the House chose to keep in its own.hands to the last moment the power of the purse, as a security for the redress of grievances. Lord Randolph accused the Government of having abandoned this constitutional security, by calling the House together at a time when the Appropriation Bill had been
passed for the Session, and he darkly hinted that, in so doing, the Government had broken through one of the most weighty of the guarantees against de:potism, which even "the Angel Gabriel," had be been Prime Minister, ought to have had no power to persuade Englishmen to relinquish. The Government ought to have prorogued instead of adjourning the House, and summoned a new autumn Session. That they did not do so, he attributed to their dread of the debate on the Address, which would have opened up all the grievances of which the people had to complain, but as to which at present their mouths are stopped.
