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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1856

THE discussion of the Treaty of Peace by both
Houses of Parliament has added fresh lustre to the

high Constitutional character and toleration of our
hereditary statesmen, and to the exposure of
the time-serving spirit which guides the represen-
tative branch of our legislature. Few historical
facts are more to be lamented than the obliquy it
proclaims, and which dates from the apathy of the
people and the political retrogression of the
multitude. With the advancement of knowledge,
the inculcation of moderation, and the growth of
industry and wealth, we had all hoped to see a
proportionable progress in political purity and
science. But we are bitterly disappointed, and are
left to the difficult and delicate task of passing
the clotted impurities of nearly a quarter
of a century's indifferrence through the
crucible, to extract from it the invigorating
spirit of the reformation of 1832. War has
hitherto thrown open the portals of fame, and
great men have invariably appeared upon the
stage, and by deeds of arms or wisdom in council,
carried away imperishable laurels, and secured for
their names the highest places in the temples of
renown. The greatest war of the nineteenth cen-
tury has proved the only barren waste in the
annals of man's unholy strife.
The impotent in war have proved no less feeble
in peace. Enough of Sebastopol is still standing,
in impious defiance of justice and mercy, to declare
to the world the failure of the Crimean expedition ;
and the Treaty of Peace is simply a compilation of
Great Britain's derelictions of duty, and the sur-
render of her rights and interests as an industrial
and commercial nation. The House of Peers feel
this humiliation—the Commons view it as a
natural consequence of war. The Lords accept
peace not as a triumph of policy, principle, or
military prowess, but as a Divine blessing—the
Lower House hold it to be a masterpiece of
Ministerial tact, aiding very materially the
chances of a prolonged retention of office and
duration of the present Parliament. The
therefore, adopted an Address to the Throne on
the restoration of peace without a dissentient
voice ; the Commons adjourned their debate,
and would have given, had they been
called on, a large
majority to the Cabinet ;
who attribute all their omissions, errors, and
failure to a divided responsibility, or, in plain
language, to an Alliance which ought to have struck
terror into the world, and have secured all that
Europe could have demanded as the guarantees of
future tranquillity. The French Alliance has
always been popular in England, and must con-
tinue so, as long as the two Governments eau
balance their conduct to suit the varied wants,
interests, and conditions of the two countries. But
if every page of the Alliance is to form a chapter of
intermeddling in the domestic concerns of Inde-
pendent States. laying down arbitrary folly for all
the nations of the earth to subscribe to, and the

peers,

exaction of anti constitutional opinions from
British Statesmen—such as those expressed by