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London, England, 1857-07-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 20.

AT the beginning of the Session Lord PAL-
=ASTON pledged himself to Parliamentary Reform,
bat asked a year to prepare his Reform Bill. In
the meantime, to prove the sincerity of his Libe-
Whim, Lord Patariaron offered an immediate in-
ralment—tbe removal of the Jewish Disabilities.
The @Ambers at the Jews to Parliament wu made
a Cabinet gelation. When Lord PALMEBSTON un-
dertook to introduce such a measure, it ceased to be
"an opon question." With regard to it, all who
hum that moment were sot with him were apinst
him. Yet a member at Lord PALMERSTON'S
Cabinet who abstained from voting in the
Hoer at Lards on tho motion that the Jews Bill
be read a wooed time, still remains a member of the
Cabinet. Again, there is a noble lord who, though
not ostensibly a member of the Administration, is

understood to act as Lord PALMERSTON'S Ministre
des Cokes, to be the dispenser of his Episcopal pa-
tronage. This noble lord, by voting for the second
reading of the Bill, and at the same time intimating
his intention to move an amendment in Committee
which would perpetuate the exclusion of the Jews
from Parliament, contrived, with a dexterity which
some Protestants imagine is the exclusive chine-
teristic of the disciples of LOYOLA, to give his
voice at once against the Jews and in favour of their
profeeed champion, Lord Pairecitsvor. Under
these circumstances it is impassible to believe that
Lord PALMERSTON intended that his Jew Bill should
be carried. He his made no exertions to get his
own measure carried, and he will allow no other
person to try what can be done. Seeing that Lord
PALMERSTON has this year played fast and lame with
his promises se regards a mere instalment of Par-
liamentary Reform, what reliance can Reformers
place on his promises relating to next year's compre-
hensive measure of Reform?

num the lateness of the hour to which the pro-
ceedings of the House of Commons were prolonged
on Friday night, our morning ootemporariss were
unable in their first impressions to state the cir-
cumdancee that marked the close of the sit-
ting. While the printing-engine was noisily and ra-
pidly accomplishing its morning work of exfoliation,
and the punctual disturbers of the twilight streets
were hastening to disperse the records of the previous
day, the doors of Parliament might still be seen

open, and drowsy cabmen and constables might still
be seen loitering in Palace-yard. Morning broke
and gee lights were at length extinguished within
and without the legislative edifice, and the first
laugh of daybreak upon the silent summer sir and
through the open casements seemed to ask in play-
ful mockery the pale and weary lingerers within—
What do ye here at such an hoer ?
A quarter of a century has passed Inc. a scene so
strange has been enacted in the House of Commons.
In the classical wax-candle days of Pin and Fox
it was no tuieceamon thing for honourable members
to walk home to breakfast before they retired to rest
after their night's labour. Many amusing anecdotes
in the parliamentary biography of the last century
turn upon the oddities of this practice ; and we think
we have somewhere read that the heaven-
born minister was known to bare dined on

beefsteak and port wine three times during
sitting. We doubt whether our modern represen-
tatives hays stomachs for either fag or feeding of
the kind in question; but they have seldom been
put to the test. Daring the discussions in Committee
on the Reform Bill attempts were more than once
made by a desperate minority to procrastinate the
destruction of the most rotten parts of the sonstitu-
tlant and as the stock of argument was generally
want, recourse was not unfrequently had to the
tines stilling logic of continual adjournments. Dying
en the door was the appalling menace of O'Com-
111LL and his disciples. Living in the lobby
became the more matter-of-fact expedient of
ffinglish gentlemen who knew that they
were beaten and yet would not give in.
Bow little either availed we need not say. A
majority strong in its own conviction of being in the
right, and in the steady support of the public out of
doors, can afford to keep its temper, knowing that
sooner or later it mast win. AU that is really re-
quisite on the side of moral and numerical prepon-
derance is the habit of self-restraint, which prevents
a majority from betraying impatience at the wilfhl
and petulant folly of its opponents. Nothing in its
way is harder to learn than the calm forbearance
and imperturbable disdain with which the
provocative tactics of an outnumbered op-
position ought to be - encountered. Yet nothing,
as experience proves, is so effective for its
purpose, or in the long run so economical of
time. Part of the game of thwarting consists in

setting up hot and heedless men to lay the old story
over again in some newly offensive way. The eat-
anlation ia that some equally hasty or thoughtless
iheracter on the winning side will fall into the trap.
that he won't submit to hear such impute-
cast on honourable men by any honourable
ember opposite, and then proceed to show, what
ilitaylady elms already ewe, that the said impute-
d= see " utterly without foundation i" whereby
OAR clear half-hour is gained by the extractives,
hmt to the policy of tiring out opposition. Con-
diering how little practice the rank and Ile of the
sew Parliament have had in this species of warfare,
we most do them the justice to say that both sides
seen to have performed their parts very effectually