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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3.

SPORTING DITELLIGHNCE.

A SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS,"
containing the results of the day's Rues, is pub-
lished every evening during the Sporting Suwon, et
six o'clock.

THE Session of Parliament which cloud yester-
day will be regarded hereafter as remarkable in
several respects, and worthy of remembranoe--and
not altogether discreditable remembrance—though
it has not fulfilled some reasonable hopes, and has
inflicted a good deal of mortification and shams.
Many legislators, and other politicians, have proba-
bly suffered as keenly under the rage of political
passion within the last six months u during any
equal period of their preceding political lives, and
there are no substantial and splendid results at all
proportioned to such intensity of feeling: but some
useful discipline has been administered, some mound
lesson■ have been learned; the wrong has been shamed,
and the right has oome uppermost, in a way and to
a degree that will not be forgotten ; and these are
things worth having, even if all reforms had been
postponed, and no good laws substituted for bad—
which, however, is far from being the case. There
has been some good legislation, and a certain pro-
miae of more, amidst a good deal that is fearfully
dubious in its quality.
When the year opened, Lord PALMERSTON'S
Cabinet had sufficient reason for their constant high
spirits. The late Autumn Session had relieved them
from their responsibility in regard to the Bank
Charter; and there was reason to believe that the
country would recover without relapse from the
depression which followed the commercial panic.
The Premier was in high feather; and the first act of
the year was his appointment of Lord CLANRICARDE
to be Lord Privy Seal. He would take no warning
from the indignation provoked by this act, which
followed on other abuses of patronage ; and public oen-
sure, and remonstrance from his own so-called party,

seemed merely to intoxicate him with insolence. In
the midst of his mood of defiance the attack on the
life of the Emperor of the FRENCH occurred; and
the explosion of Oestei's grenade: :lettered the
British Cabinet, though it left unscathed the French
throne. The buoyant Premier, indeed, did not see, or
would not admit, that time. were changing with him,
but he had in fact nothing to spare in the way of
popularity when he met Parliament on the 4th of
February. His manners had not propitiated his fol-
lowers during the Autumn Session; there were vow-
ing doubts about the efficacy of the Reform measure
he had promised ; matters were not going very well
in India, and it was believed that Lords PAI,
MERSTON and PANMORE were mainly answerable
for their not having taken a more favourable tura;
the Premier's famous Chinese enterprise, though
just then illustrated by the capture of YETI, was
dragging on, without anyone knowing what
was aimed at, and what should be done
next; our countrymen PARE and WATT were
on trial at Naples, when every English citizen
believed that • very ordinary amount of spirit on
Lord CLARENDON'S part would have secured their
release; and there were disquietude. in other dine-
Lone which were lowering the prestige of Ministers
very sensibly. As soon as the Session opened the
wont qsaluise of the PALMERSTON Cabinet became
diselond In • way which doomed it at once. The
Minister took advantage of the popular ignorance—
extending into Parliament—to engross the Govern-
ment of India, at the worst time and in mischievous
haste, for the same purposes to which he had per-
verted the China question a year before ; and, u a
set-off against this boldness, he and has Foreign
Minister crouched before the insolence of the French
Government, then in a state of insane panic. Lord
CLARENDON'S passport arrangements and Lad
PALMERSTON'S Conspiracy Bill strained the popu-
larity of the Ministry to the stout, and yet the
Premier's manners became more insufferable to his
supporters with every trial he inflicted on their
faith and patience.
Os the Bth of February he introduced his Coo-
apirsey Bill, under the disguise of an amendment of
OW Common Law. It was at once received by the
country, not as a law amendment, hut as
a political concession ; and this decided its fate
and that of the Ministry which could pro-
pose such a measure at the moment when
French military offioers clamoured to be led to
invade us, and the French Minister dictatorially
invited our Government to alter our laws for the
convenience of France. The House of Commoos
was the Faunae's own personal following, he sup-
posed. Never did any House so belong to any modern
English Minister ; and he tried the experiment of
doing what he would with his own on behalf of
the Runtime, whom he had been the first to wel-
come as he emerged from the sea of blood on the
steps of the throne. But there was never yet a
modern House of Commons which would submit
ple of England to foreign die-
the lates and the people
tation ; and on the second reading of the Bill being
moved by Lord PALMERSTON, Mr. T. MILNER Gls-
EON'S amendment, expressing • constant willingness
to improve our laws, but regretting that before pro-
posing to do so in this instance Ministers had net
officially answered Count WALEWSKI's despatch of
the 20th of January, was carried by a majority of
nineteen is • full House. The vehemence of the
cheers which followed the announcement of this
vote, and the visible discomfiture of Lord l'aurza-
STOPt, marked the significance of the event. Rightly
regarding it as, in effect, • rots of waat ofoonfidenes,.
the Ministers resigned the next day. And here
closed the first brief Act of the Session. The other
incidents which marked it were Lord PALMERSTON'S
introduction of his India Bill ; the presentment of a
petition from the Ent India Company, of singular
interest and value, as a recapitulation of their m-
aim and claims; the introduction of Lord J. Ws-
SILL'. Bill for the alteration of the Pullainentary

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