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LONDON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 13.

Ante many postponements and delays, the ques-
tion has at length been put and carried, that the old
House of Commons he dissolved, and forthwith scat-
tered to the four winds of heaven. Never more will
the aggregate wisdom of three nations assemble
again in the dusky afternoons of February, or the
sultry evenings of July, in the wooden shed where
for some dozen years they have done the business of
the country. The mace and the red boxes, and the
Speaker's chair, have many weeks since vanished
*cm the superseded scene 80 long dignified by their
presence; and little has of late remained hut half-
worn leather cushions, several hundred feet of low-
backed oaken benches, the ponderous central table,
and the coma-nut matting on the floor. And these
have now—their day of honour past—been contume-
liously sold without reserve to the highest bidders
in a miscellaneous crowd of brokers, jobbers,
and dealers in convertible lumber. °inverted
into manifold and marvellous devices for
the extraction of money from the pockets of mud-
mental buyers of house. furniture, we have no doubt
these mortal remains of ah imperial senate-house will
be. The authentic hack of the old Treasury bench,
and the identical rail against which the leaders of
whig and tory oppositions alternately leaned—when
moulded and metamorphosed into heaven knows what
forms, will probably prove the means of abstracting
a certain number of guineas from the pockets of
credulous purchaaers ; and if the demand should be
brisk, we don't see any limit to the supply. Con-
noisseurs are often done by the adroit manufacturers
of original pieurts ; how much more easy and re-
munerative must be the trade in relics of the House
of Commons, if people would only believe, and
buy in faith, nothing doubting?
Sot somehow we fear that the political remi-
niscences of the last few years are not calculated
to amuse much of romantic interest. The age
grown prosaic, and parliamentary memories are
sadly unpoctical. The age of chivalrous conflict
is gone by. It is said we have no longer great debaters.
1k the merits of our Lord JoitNs, and Sir Roamers,
and Mr. iii.NJAMINS what they may as compared
with the warily hones of the olden time, it is certain
that every day in the onward progress of the nation,
less and lens depends upon "an eloquent gentleman,"
or his "singularly impressive speech." Add to this
the fact that of those whose names will be remembered
twenty yearn hence, who ever sat or spoke in the
timber tabernacle about to be broken up by the ham-
mer of the auctioneer, the majority have al-
ready adjourned to the more shapeless and
less comfortable habitation of cut stone, which
the lavish Mr. MILKY has built, unbuilt, and rebuilt

again for their tineuvommodation and the erratic-
ment of all foreign beholders. So that, in point of
fact, there is hardly an individual whose senatorial
celebrity ran properly be identified with the tem-
ps-try. 'sillily, save the one and only genuine be-
liever in protection —l.ord Grown: JIENTINCK—for,
although he had been a member of several parlia-
ments previous to the burning of old St. Stephen's
chapel, it was within the makeshift chamber that
he first esrayed to lead a party or to raise the stand-
ard of a separate cause. Champion and cause have
alike passed away, and the place of their fruitless
though vehement bfiruggle shall henceforth know
them 1111 more. On the around hitherto occupied by
the unpieturerque but snug and commodious House
of iiiii nowise we ere gravely informed that the stir-
enstiearehiteet means, to erect " a screen for the House
of lordr." We agree for once with Mr. BARRY. The
&trembly of self-elected and nominated representa-
tives arose Is girluttre wase will shortly expire have
served chiefly as " a screen" for the obstinacy and
folly of the Hoare of Lords. The intervention of
push shelter is about to be removed, and the preten-
sions; of hereditary right are likely to need all the
1,14(.0 ion that I,,ligree in freestone can afford them.
There is one point. however, on which we are
disposed to be a little inquisitive. We mean
no ottirwe, but really we cannot help say-
ing that we think a great opportunity has been
lost in the pee-ant instance for materially im-
proving the migrated House it Commons. Why, we
any was the occasion allowed to
slip for asthma rid of the userl-up senators as well as
the awibalo mat..? Can any intelligent person doubt
that the 1111 A. of sandand prompt legislation would
hate n uuuh more advanced by selling the old
Iconic by auction than disposing in this way of
merely the old benches? It won't do to say that
tiny would have brought nothing in the rummage
sale. Not to mention the price at which they value
themselves, and what may be done by judicious puf-
fing, it should lie remembered that the managers of
the clubs to which they belong would notoriously
have given twice as much to buy them out as they
were formerly induced to squander in buying them
in. We don t like going into particulars, or men-
tioning names, hut there arc few public journalists
who have endurirl the horrors of sham-protectionist,
debuts% of three nights in succession, who will not
in his brat agree with us in deploring that
the occasion wear not seized for " a great sacrifice'
of articles " gone rather out of fashion, but still
quite as good as ever they were." If unfit for any
immediate 1114 e at home, they might be made up in
lots for foreign markets, where steady and trust-'
worthy NenatoN are, it is said, scarce and few,
and with ulnae exalted mien who profess to be
•• only responsible to Goa," these supernumerary
meutnens of our conservative parliament would of
course act in perfect harmony. But regrets are
idle : the bores are all left on hand; nothing but
the harmlear benches have been cleared away • and
but for the hope of the promised reform bill, we
should almost be inclined to despair.

WE would most respectfully draw the attention of
Lord Chancellor 'Ennio. in the learned leisure of his
vacation, to the destruction and sinking of the Bra-
zilian smack .%malia, as detailed in L hunday's Er-
press. by one of her MUMS'S ships of war, whilst
that craft was in August last trading from Rio
Janeiro to a small port along the coast which, having
jut been raised to the dignity of a city of empire,
had. in celebration of the honour, adorned its old
name a little. And we would do so, because the
ppecasseenat Lord Keeper of the Queen's Conscience die.
tiiguubed himself in the year 1843, when one of
the leaders of her MAJESTY'S opposition, by the zeal-
ona and resolute manner in which he resisted the AM
under which that (mbar and violence has been com-
mitted; then warning Lord ABERDEEN, its author,
that there was no warrant in the convention of 182 ti
fur its enactments, that its provisions could not
be justified under the law of nations, and that the
finances of this country would he legally responsible
for all sets done under its authority.
Nor was this, it turned out, the mere declaration
of a politician desirous of promoting the interests
of his own. and of &imaging the WIVES of his
opponent's party. For, when, after some years'
experience of the operation of the statute,
Mr. MILNER GinsoN brought forward a mo-
tion fur its repeal, Sir Titom is Warm
had then ceased to be an ornament of the liberal side
of the house, and had become Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas. Yet, so strongly and deeply did he
continue to feel its illegality, that, instigated only by
the dictates of his own conscience, he actually ad-
dressed, from circuit at Lincoln, a letter to Mr. MUTT
to be read in the House of Commons during the de.
bate, in which he reiterated, in stronger language
than he had spoken, all his objections to the statute,
and decLued that British cruisers were in its name
perpetrating aggressions against a weak power
which this country dared not commit against a
strong nation. It is, therefore, because Lord Tittlio ;
is now Lord Chancellor, and a member of a whigea-
binet.that we most respectfully draw his attention to I
the case of the Amelia.
That smack was seized, taken, and sunk by a
British ship of war, whilst trading along the Bra- I
zilian coast. There is not the smallest pretence far'
imputing to her any participation in the African !
slave•trade ; that is, in the importation of slates into '
Brazil from Africa, which it was tho object of the