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SATUEMAY, AUGUST 14th, 1875

THE WORK OF THE Slir SION.

The way in which the weal of the legislative
year is regarded wid, ly varies according to the
views of those wbe Lap ess an opinion concern-
ing it. The Prime Minister, speaking at the
Mansion House, referred to the results of the
labours of Parliament as having been highly sat-
isfactory; while the Marquis of II Islington, as
the official representative of the Opposition. only
48 hours afterwards, put quite a different fare
upon the matter. Bill after Bilk had been
abandoned, and even those which had passed,
underwent emasculation. It is, however, for
the constituencies themselves to Loin their own
estimate of what has been done. The measures
which have passed are now enrolled upon the
statute books of the land, and it is not difficult
to judge of their importance or their value.
One feature of the past sessions which it is
hoped we shall not see repeati, is the large
quantity of time which has been occupied over
the discussion of purely personal questions.
Then came the discussion upon the privilege
question as far as it affected the relations of
Parliament towards the Press; and the extra-
ordinary course was taken of summoning the
printers of two metropolitan daily papers to the
Bar for. publishing reports of Parliamentary
proceedings.. It seemed like going back a cen-
tury to the time when Edmund Burke and his
supporters made such a gallant stand for the
freedom of publication. After this resolution
bad been passed, the House appeared to realise
th. e anomalous position in which it had placed
itself, and when the offending printers duly
surrendered, the order for their appearance at
the bar was discharged. The House has since
adopted a resolution which will prevent the oc-
cupants of the galleries from being un-
ceremoniously excluded at the caprice of a single
member; so that really out of evil good has
come. Then there were the nights of wrang-
ling over the Regimental Exchanges Bill, and
the still more numerous nights of resistance to
the Irish Coercion Bill—resistance which was
overcome at last, only at an immense sacrifice
of time that would have helfed to mould much
useful legislation. The result was that July
found Parliamentary work lamentably in arrear,
and members confronted with the alternative of
eurtailing their holidays, or abandoning measures
which had been recommended for their conside-
ration in the Speech from the Thorne.
Yet upon the whole several good Bills have
been passed, affecting the interests of many
classes of the community. The Labour Laws
have been remodelled, and punishment by im-
prisonment for breach of contract no longer
exists. The law of intimidation and annoyance
Is now equal and impartial in its operation, and
bears no longer with severity upon one particu-
lar class. The Opposition joined with the Go-
vernment in the attempt to place this vexed
questions upon a satisfactory basis. The
Judicature Act of 1873 has at length been com-
pleted, although scarcely in the way contemplated
by its framers. The Agricultural Holdings'
Bill may be the beginning of a new era for the
tenant-farmers of England, for it is an attempt
to persuade landlords to cease the habit—of
which the Legislature by this measure expresses
its disapproval—of refusing tenants compensa-
tion for improvements. Then, again, a Bill
has passed for simplifying the mode of transfer-
ring land; but when we remember the failure
of Lord Westbury's Land Registry scheme, it
would be unwise to be too sanguine in antici-
pating great results from the measnr. A new
bishopric has been called into existence, but the
endowment of the see of St. Alban's depends
upon realisations which have not yet been made;
and it may, therefore, be some time before the
new prelate takes his seat in the House of Lords.
The Artisans' Dwellings Act is designed to meet
a deeplyrooted evil in large communities
namely, the overcrowding of the habitations of
the humble classes. No time is to be lost in
putting it into force in the metropolis, where in
the face of all that has been done in this di-
rection, a great deal remains to be accomplished.
The Sale of Food and Drugs Bill relaxes many
of the stringent penalties imposed by the Act
of 1872. As originally passed through the
Commons, it was certainly more in the interests
of the tradesmen than those of the public, but
this defect was to some extent remedied in the
House of Lords. The Unseaworthy Ships'
Bill, although merely a temporary measure, is
also amongst the realised results of the Session.
Yet there have been several failures. In the
Queens's speech we were promised a bill "for
more effectually providing for the trial of of-
fences, by establishing the office of a Public
Prosecutor," but nothing has been heard of it
from that day to this. Bills for the more severe
punishment of brutal offences and for the pre-
vention of river pollutions have been withdrawn.
Yet upon the whole the session might have been
a worse one, and considering the opportunities
afforded by the forms of the House for an
unlimited amount of talk, let us be thankful for
what has been achieved, and not sigh after that
which is impossibe of accomplishment.

MARRIED.

BILLIIIOHAM—AsTox:6;-the 10th in:t, at the Lozells
• Congregational Chapel (by the Rev. Daniel K. shoe.
botham, Henry Billingham, of Stourbridge, to Luny
Aston. niece of the late Thomas Wood. Esq., of Colley
Gate, and of the late George Wood, Esq. of the Lye.

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