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London, England, 1855-08-11 00:00:00

3.lnta Irnr.

During the parliamentary session Palmeison has gone through
more work in the talking line than during any other dozen ses-
sions of his life since that of Waterloo. ie has made upwards
of one hundred speeches of his own, and, what is far more
trying, he has listened to a thousand of other people; listened,
not like the mere logs and blocks on the official benches
about him, but listened so that not a point shAuld escape him,
nor did: it. He has outset, upset, talked down, and out-
laughed everybody, sometimes outright, but occasionally in
his sleeve ;—and that is as destructive a species of eacchi-
nation as the American merriment which consists in grinning
the bark off a tree, or outgrinning a gentleman's weight
in wild cats. Disraeli only carried the brains of the Derby
Cabinet ; but Palmerston has carried both body and brains of
a couple of Cabinets, a live and dead one and Aberdeen's. Worse than that, he had to resist the doubly detremental
operations of seceding friends and adhesive enemies ; to bear
down irreconcilable animosities within his Ministry ; to purge
it of traitors to himself and to their own professions ; to shake
off a perhaps honest auxiliary whose aid was ruin ; and to give
ever-ready Lattle to a motley and multitudinous foe the mere
recollections of whose several grounds of " action" was a tax
upon memory that Mr. Bidder when he was the Calculating
Boy Nv mild have been puzzled to recollect.
A " lady of rank," whose husband and several near relatives
are serving in the Crimea, advertises to the effect that she
wishes to find some other ladies similarly circumstanced, who
may be desirous of proceeding there immediately to pass the
winter, and who would be willing to join her in procuring a
suitable yacht for that purpose.,..We sincerely hope her inten-
tion may be accomplished.
Among the " notions" imbibed by the Emperor Napoleon
the Third, during his residence as an exile in England, was a
very decided preference fur the principles of free trade.
Those who are in his confidence are of opinion that he only
awaits a favourable moment in order to Introduce that system
into France. Absolute though the Emperor is said to be, he
nevertheless is obliged to proced with the utmost caution in
realising his schemes. Monopoly is fearfully strong in France;
so much so that, under the constitutional system, which the
enemies of Napoleon so hypocritically affect to deplore, any
attempt to introduce reciprocity between nations would have
been utterly futile. The first great difficulty in the way of the realisation of the Emperor's scheme is to be found in the
character of the French people, who are liberal enough in
theory, and when liberalism costs nothing but the enunciation
of sounding abstract principle., but who are deficient is that
largeness of mind, and that faith in themselves and in the
future, which enabled Sir Robert Peel to try his grand experi-
ment. That the Emperor has not abandoned his purpose is
evidenced by the Monit4tir, which contains an elaborate article,
emanating fro c. the minister of commerce, containing an
analysis of the effects of free trade in England, showing how
certain classes who expected to be ruined have, in fact, been
gainers by the system, and also that the revenue has enor-
mously increased.
The brace of popular baronets, who respresent Southwark
and Marylebone respectively, have been before their consti-
tuents, and their reception has been cordial—we might say
flattering ; of Sir William Molesworth every one speaks hand-
somely. lie has bravely earned his honours by a long course
of manly patriotism. Popular principles, aided
by fine talents,
forced him into the cabinet of Lout Aberdeen, and Lord John
Rt.sseirs political suicide has made him Colonial Minister.
He has plenty of work in him, is stimulated by a healthy
ambition, and the theoretical colonial reformer will not lack
the energy to prove that he can be a practical statesman. Sir
Benjamin Hall has not the sante force of character nor the
same commanding intellect; but he is a good man of business,
and has fairly won his spurs. To the natives of the Princi-
pality his rise must prove to be gratifying.
The advocates of a stringent Sunday legislation have sus-
tained a defeat. The Committee of the Ho.:se of Commons
appointed to trace the working of the new Beer Bill Report, is
unfavourable to the bitter observance of the Sabbath. In a
word, the Hyde-park rioters have triumphed. Lord Robert
Grosvenor has lost his Sunday Trading Bill, and the door for
Sunday tipling has been opened wider. This is the result of
pushing matters beyond prudence—the defeat of men with
good intentions but afflicted with weak heads. The committee
recommeud that houses of entertainment be opened at one and
closed at three o'clock—re-opened at five and closed at eleven
—in all an extension of two hours and a half. The bona fide
traveller, whose existence has been a puzzle to police maois-
trates, is to disappear from the statute book, and the place that
once knew him will know hum no More. The law of last
session, hastily taken up, and harshly carried out, is virtually
repealed, and the repeal is an enforced concession. It has
been wrung from the Legislature. The lesson is one on which
our law-makers may ponder. They have tardily ascertained
that they cannot make good and sober citizens by act of parlia-
ment, and if they are made wise by this discovery, all may
rejoice. But annoying symptoms appear in other
quarters.
The state of publie feeling evolved by the Hyde. park demon-
strations has aroused the torpidity of the Chartists. Those
terrible fellows, Mr. Ernest Jones and Mr. Bronterre O'Brien,
are before the world once more, clamouring for manhood suf-
frage, and denouncing as monstrous and atrocious the fact that
millions of men who contribute towards the expense of the
war in which we are now engaged have no voice in the
representation. The speeches and exhortations of these vehe-
mmt orators will sink deeply into the minds of the classes

[AUGUST 11, 1855.

to which they are ad.lressed for there is just sufficient truth
in them to work mischief—to leave an enduring impression on
excitable temperaint.nts. AI together, we have come out of
this Sunday legislation very indifferently. We have roused
the sleeping lion, and it remains to be seen whether we can
testore him to quietude by the narcotics of the dram shop.