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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 4.

Ox the eve of dissolutim the House of Com-
mons was called last night to perform an act of
great but just severity in paining censure upon the
conduct of the LORD Cx.txcat.Lor.. To the last
moment of its existence, the Representative
Assembly thus fulfils its highest duty, and inserts
its prerogative towards the Government and the
country. No exigency less stimulating and less
momentous could have collected and concentrated
for a single night the exhausted energies of a Par-
liament hovering between life and death. But
happily it is no common incident in English
history ; a solemn act of censure upon
the supreme judicial authority in the king-
dom, the Keeper of her MAJISTY'S conscience, the
Lord High Chancellor of England. It may be
pleaded that even as late as seventy years ago
transactions which are now visited with rebuke
and condemnation might have passed compare-
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tively unblamed among the common incidents of
patronage and the vulgar foibles of power. It
may be that the age in which we live is no purer
than the last ; but it is at least more solicitous
of appearances and examples in men of high estate
and dignity ; it is more jealous of the administra-
tion of public trusts ; and, what is still more to
the point, it exercises a far more stringent and
searching censorship of the character and conduct
of men in office ; thanks to an instructed and or-
ganized public opinion, to which the sense of
Parliament instinctively and instantly responds.
After all deductions from the perfectly dispas-

sionate end judicial character of proceedings
last night, it is abundantly clear that the House
could not have left the Leeds Bankruptcy Report

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unnoticed, without an abandonment of duty and a
forfeiture of right which every independent

constituency in the country would have re-
sented, and without a negligence and an
indulgence disgracefully memorable in parliamen-
tary annals. The debate of lest evening was im-
peratively due to the conscience of Parliament
itself ; it was demanded by the public conscience ;
it was indispensable as a precedent and a warn-
ing. Very possibly idle gossip will relate how
severe the "whip " was on both aides of the
House, how the Opposition brought up all
their available votes from all parts of the
country for the event, and how the Govern-
ment hastily summoned its forces to the
rescue. The original resolution of censure was
moved, it is true, by a member of the Opposition ;
it was met by an amendment by one of the law
officers of the Government. But the member who
moved the original resolution, in • speech very
pressing and elaborate, and calm in exposition as
a strong case is wont to be, was content to accept
the terms of an amendment proposed by an in-
fluential supporter of the Government, and who
has held office under a Liberal administration, in-
stead of his own ; and it was this amendment of
Mr. Boorzeia's that became in fact, though not in
form, the substantive motion which the majorit
finally accepted and adopted. The first senteoceof Mr.
HUNT'S motion, dexterously vague and general in
its terms, yet susceptible by skilful treatment of a
tolerably close adaptation to the recent scandals,
had the air of a party attack, designed to operate
on the imaginations of the electors, and to cover the
whole Ministry with a charge rather suggested than
precisely stated ; • shot not fired in the air or at
random, yet not too accurately aimed. Mr. Hiner
asked the House to affirm its belief "that a great
"facility exists for obtaining public appointments
"by corrupt means." It would be difficult to
invent • projectile more likely than this
to do wide-spread havoc in the electoral
mind. So obscure and alarming • pre-
amble Mr. Bouvzaia proposed to withdraw,
and members of the Committee who had investi-
gated the evidence and drawn up the Report on
which Mr. HUNT'S motion wee founded, declined to
concur in that preamble. Mr. Botrazazz'a amend-
ment concentrated the censure of the House on the
one supreme offender, and characterized the LORD
CHANCELLOR'S " laxity of practice and want of
" caution with regard to the public interest
" in sanctioning the grant of retiring pensions
"to public officers, whilst charges are pending
" against them," as "in the opinion of the
" House highly reprehensible, and calculated to
" discredit the administration of • great office."
This amendment was evidently so worded as to
take the sting of party from the censure, and to
defeat the tactics of the Opposition, while com-
pletely vindicating the conscience of the
House, and satisfying public opinion. Indeed,
Mr. BOUVIER= declared his general confidence in
the Government, excepting the Loan CHANCELLOR;
in whom be had no confidence. And he summarised
the transactions discnsied in the Report in justi-
fication of his strong expressions of distrust. To
Mr. Boorzasi's amendment, then, approved as
it was by the chairman and other members of
the Committee on whose Report it was based,
Mr. Hour, as the ATIORNEY-GIMERAL remarked,
very naturally acceded. Doubtless the party to
which Mr. Hour belongs were satisfied with its
explicit censure of the LORD CHANCELLOR ;
the Arroazier-Gurres.az, speaking as the LORD
CHANCELLOR'S best friend on this occasion, very
naturally objected to it on that very ground ; but
the Government, as • whole, may, we think,