The Tory Lords tried on Thursday to upset the agreement
made in the Commons about the Boundary Bill. It was under- stood there that the report of the Select Committee, which left things much as they are, was to be supported by Government ; but Lord Beauchamp,—Mr. Lygon, person who in the Commons was always doing amateur Speaker,—moved that the alterations sug- gested by the original commission in Birkenhead and Birming- ham should be reinserted in the Bill, and the Government sup- ported him. Lord Russell and the Liberal Peers thereupon declared that they would be no parties to such a breach of Parlia- mentary honour, and quitted the House in a body. Lord Beau- champ then postponed his amendment, which, it is said, is not intended to alter boundaries, but to produce a collision between the two Houses, and so cause a delay which will make the winter Session impossible. This winter Session is detested by about a third of the Commons, who see no chance of re-election if the cry is to be "The Irish Church ;" but the Registration Bill, which makes a meeting of Parliament possible by the 8th of Decem- ber, passed on Thursday night through committee, amidst speeches which are really cries of rage from men like Mr. Smollett. Mr.
Disraeli has not yet pronounced himself, but if he thinks it his in- ' terest to postpone dissolution he will contrive to postpone it, be the engagements what they may, and to postpone it apparently greatly against his will.
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