Business done.—­Prince ARTHUR indicted for breach of Constitutional Law in Ireland.  Jury retired to consider their verdict.  Agreed upon acquittal by 320 Votes against 245.

Tuesday.—­A once familiar presence pervades House to-night.  Everyone more, or less vaguely, conscious of it.  Even without chancing to look up to Peers’ Gallery, Members are inspired with sudden mysterious access of Moral Influence.  OLD MORALITY himself, that overflowing reservoir of moral axioms, takes on an aggravated air of responsibility and respectability.  Has had a great triumph which would inflate a man of less modest character.  Last night, or rather early this morning, Irish Members appeared to force Government hand; just when it seemed that RUSSELL’s Amendment was about to be substituted for MORLEY’s Resolution, TIM HEALY interposed, moved Adjournment of Debate; OLD MORALITY protested; SEXTON slily threatened all-night sitting; after an hour’s struggle, Government capitulated; Adjournment agreed to; Irish Members went off jubilant.

To-night SEXTON asks OLD MORALITY when they shall resume debate?

“Ah,” says OLD MORALITY, with look of friendly interest, as if the idea had struck him for the first time, “yes; just so.  The Hon. Member wants to know when we shall resume the debate, the adjournment of which he and his friends were instrumental in carrying at an early hour this morning.  Well, I must say, on the part of Her Majesty’s Government, that we are perfectly satisfied with matters as they were left.  We had a lively debate, a majority much larger than we had dared to hope for, and, as far as we are concerned, I think we’ll leave matters alone.  As one of our great prose-writers observed, it is, on the whole, more conducive to comfort to endure any inconveniences that may press upon one at the current moment, than to hasten to encounter others with the precise nature of which we do not happen to be acquainted.”

[Illustration:  Under-Secretary.]

GRAND CROSS missed this delightful little episode, not coming in till questions were over.  Now he sat in Peers’ Gallery and gazed through spectacles on scene of earlier triumphs.  Looks hardly a day older than when he left us; the same perky manner, the same wooden visage, with its pervading air of supreme self-satisfaction and inscrutable wisdom.  It is a night given up to Indian topics.  PLOWDEN, in his quiet, effective way, has just carried Motion which will have substantial effect in the direction of securing fuller debate of Indian questions.  GORST, standing at table replying to BUCHANAN on another Indian topic, alludes with deferential tone to “the SECRETARY OF STATE.”  GRAND CROSS almost audibly purrs from his perch in the Gallery.

“An odd world, my masters,” says the Member for SARK, striding out impatiently, “when you have a man like GORST Under-Secretary, with a man like GRAND CROSS at the Head of the Department.”