The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-25 00:00:00

THIS EVENING,

Will be performed PAUL PRY. Characters by Messrs. C. Selby.
Parselle, and Wright; Misses Mary Keeley and Woolgar, and Mrs
L. Murray.
After which, FRATERNISATION;
To conclude with MY PRECIOUS BETSY.

ROYAL ATUAND THEATRE.
Under the directiot of Mr. Payne.
• /TN EYENI&O,
Will be performed MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUNC
BUS/SAN DS.
After which, EL TOREADOR.
Followed by a new Farce, THE LATCH KEY.
THE GALICIMST FETE.
To conclude with GANEM.

ASTLETS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
-Lenses and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
Unabated and triumphlut attraction of Mazeppa. —Fourth and las'
- week of Mr: George Wild and Miss Fanny Williams.
THIS EVENING,
Lottl Hymn's MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE.
After which, the Premier's EXERCISES of the ARENA, by th
elite of Eque.trians.
To conclude with THE ARTFUL DODGE, in which Mr. Georg.
Wild and Miss Fanny Williams will appear.
Mr. William Cooke flatters himself that the above announcemet,
Freres the astmnding success of this the most terrifically thrilling
all spectacles. The Wild Horse, taught and trained by yr.
Cooke, pursuing his mad career, defies all description, and must 1,
-yitnessed to be credited.
Bolbettice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. V
est. Acting Manager, Mr, Nelson Lee. Equestrian Direct°
Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1855.

Lord STANLEY possesses the spirit of a tru.
Reformer. He has afforded unequivocal evidenc
of, his readiness to grapple with evils whereve
theferist, although they may have been tolerate,
through a long succession of ages and becorn,
venerable iniquities. That he has been win)!
to shake off even party trammels on a fitting or
casion has been incontrovertibly proved by hi,
conduct on the Church-rate question ; and, con
siaeriug the position he has occupied, and hi
Close ;relationship to the recognised Leader Gf of
of tilt great di visions of the Legislature and t h
he must be 'admitted to have displaye
no ordinary degree of moral courage, as well a
zealous and energetic devotion in the advocacy
that which be believes to be just and expedient.
Helm now directed attention to a grievant
%Ci'flaigrant,.a practice so truly ridiculous, that i
is only astonishing that the common sense of th,
station could so long have tolerated the absurdit
practice, too, that carries with it the greaten
inconvenience to the persons more immediateh

ooneexned, and chiefly leads to the slovenly legis
-lotion against which so many just complaints hay,
„been preferred—under which the most glarin
jobs have been perpetrated, while just and sal'
iary 'measures have been postponed from want o
`tioaa for their consideration.

- :.This grievance. is : occasioned by the- time sc.-
Teeted for the sittings" of both Houses of Parhi'
nient, which carries. the London Spring into th.
..middle of Augnst, and defers the consideration (•
the most' important measures to the dog-day-
Every intellectual labourer' well knows *the inap
titude for =business—the- weariness -felt dur
ing the sultrinesS of summer. • We pine
pure air and green fields—fur sea, or mountain.
or-lake; We cannot fix our wandering-attentior
On the-dull details of every-day transactions, and
detest the close rooms and offices in which we art
nearly smothered during working hours. Wit
what delight do we enter on our brief vacation,
and how thoroughly renovated do we return t.
our daily toil, after the period of relaxation. T.),
•
Many are unfortunately chained to their desks
. • ...•
for, the greater
.part of the year. They canno'
aftiord- to devote more than a few weeks to amuse-
' Inerif. But do they not invariably choose tht
bright.sumay days of summer for recreation, an(

• envy those who can spare months for the same
Pippose, taking for themselves what is truly
*tug vacation ? Had they the power to choose,
.4A,tlieir own time they R oul d certainly not work
'crowded 'rooins, with an oppressive atmosphere,
in July or August ! Nor, if they did so, would
the business be as efficiently performed, or bear
the'teit of a critical examination, as well as that
"WhiciV.wail executed in the winter season.
t.
-1-104 'LET. sets out by declaring that he
does.not-ausire to =increase or to diminish the

Parliam~n'ta,
.y
se3sion: He feels that " an increase
to ,the numbe,r of days .would add little to the
amount of Irtiticv,.?pd would have no tendency to
jnipxclye therEua.nner,q4loing it. " All work, and
126 pity,' tertaiiily•- make the legislati v..
• a.ver y boy. 7 4nd though five month
• holidays s eercis a large proportion of leisure, we
41.PMIliot say tll,at it is too much, considering the
lure ot' the occupation and the abundant means
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°L eniovraent 'in the possession of the great ma'
If we. put on the screw
,Ljority the 'Members.
t' More "tioht)4.
,y---we might diskust many useful per-
:)! sots-, mud pre. vent them from entering on a course
E
, • • r Many urgent demands on their Uwe
• and attenti lon.
„ • Pn, ,41.t.Lord
IVe''e°c 11 • h STANLEY iu accept-
• jPg,a:sessiQ n ' t the present average duration--
;gay saved raor ttlis---tte that in which the greatest
amount, of-wo/ efficiently performed. Tio
great quest ion then bettotnes--Hovr is the time to
be divided? ,vliat portion is to be applied to ti
discharge of 1 iuginess, and what to the amusement

alid. recreation of the Legislators? It is a pro-
blem which does not seem very difficult of solu-

ion, which, «e venture to say, any man of busi-
ness in the City would readily answer, and that
nine persons out of ten would acquiesce in the de-

cision.

England is," as the Noble Lord truly
Asserts,• " the' only 'nation in the world whose
ihoai civilised inhabitants pass their summer in
towns, and retire to winter in the provinces."
Winter in town should be the rule, and not the
exception. But, by making the London winter
z.ommence at Easter, the natural order is inverted,
he epring is pushed on far into the dog

lays, and the beauties of the country are practi-
allp not merely to the members of
',oth Houses, and to their families and dependents,
)ut to the little " world " that suits its arrange-
-netts to their convenience and moulds the
.ashions, to their wishes. Lord STANLEY is per-

tectly correct in saying that it is not the London

Season that regulates the Parliamentary Session,
)ut the Session that regulates the Season. The
..eform in the latter would, most assuredly, pro-
luce the no less important reform in the former,
,nd exercise a highly sanitary influence, not
.nerely on our Legislators, but on their wives and
:hildren, and all the " satellites" that follow the
novements of the leaders of fashion.

The suggestion of Lord STANLEY is to the effect
hat Parliament should meet, as nearly as possible,
in the Ist of November ; that it should sit for six
.veeks, adjourning about the 15th of December
or three weeks or a month, and should resume
its sittings not later than the 15th of January,
ly which two clear months would be gained at
he time when the present session usually com-
mences. These two months may be taken from

the end, so that the prorogation might take place
during the first or second week of June, instead
)f the first or second week of August, as at pre-
sent. Indeed an additional week might be spared,
is there would be no necessity for the Whit3un-
ide holidays.
This is a simple and intelligible proposition—

one that can be thoroughly comprehended, and its

comparative advantages and disadvantages imme•
liately understood, not only by- every member of
Parliament, but by every man of ordinary coin-

prehension. It requires no argument to show

that it would be a vast amelioration of the pre-
sent system ; and when a large proportion of men
of all parties are in its favour, as asserted by
Lord STANLEY, there can scarcely be any difficulty
of carrying it into practical operation, and at all
events trying an experiment, of the beneficial re-
lulls whereof no reasonable doubt can be enter-
tained.

Foreigners must regard us as either a con-
-;nmmately conceited or an utterly infatuated
)eople if they judge us exclusively by the great
public undertakings over which Government has
control.

The superiority of other nations in matters of
taste connected with manufacture generally
acknowledged until of late, when the establishment
of schools of art ani the encouragement held out
to pupils have resulted in the elevation of our
ndustiial artists to an equality with their bre-
thren abroad, or at all events are likely to do
so-was always met by the complacent assertion
that, if beaten in the above respect, we far sur-
passed all rivals in mechanical art, and in
everything else in which plain practical skill
and business energy were required ; that if our
designs were not so tasteful as those of our neigh-
bours, we could point, in all the pride of conscious
,inperiurity, to works of unprecedented magnitude,
.liffieulty, and utility, executed with 'a rapidity,
tn economy, and a precision that could only be
meelled by the completeness of the results. And
his, it must be admitted, was not far from the
ruth ; but, unfortunately, it only applied to the
people, and not to their governors, whose practical
;,dents (as exhibited in public works) have always
een on a par with their taste.
Turn, for instance, to the records of the Ad-
airalty, and what a history of costly bungling
,resents itself. Three-decker; built at an enor-
lions cost,, that when launched reproached their
rchitects for overburdening them with a super-
liuous deck, and had to be returned to dock in
,rder to re-issue with only two. Two-deckers
that floated like tubs rather than sailed like yes
(31.8 of war, and minor craft that, if they did any-
thing well, turned bottom upward best of all.
Pitiful, doubtless, but recorded, and impossible to
:scape the eye. Turn again to our public build-
flgs ; what perplexity, want of plan, lavish ex
penditure, and absence of all-embracing and corn-
nanding skill do they not reveal ! Look at our
National Gallery ; what Englishman but is
Ashamed of it—at our Houses of Parliament, bur,
-sighs over them !
And well are the latter calculated to evoke
-tch an expression of feeling. Whatever may be
their beauty in detail, he must be a bold man who
iffilms he can discern the awe-inspiring or
lommauding whole the frightful sums la-
vished on them warrant the provincialist in
viticipating. Whatever be the cause, it is
notorious that the desiderated effect is not yet
nrodUced ; and after the original estimate has
)een doubled by the expenditure, we are called
apon tb contribute a heavy additional amount for
,alterations and additions. On the face of it there
must have been grievous blundering somewhere—
blundering that must not be repeated. Whatever
's really necessary to complete the original design
and for the due discharge of Governmental duties
there should be no hesitation in granting ; but any
scheme involving morethan this, we will not say
should be rejected, but should not be sanctioned
without ample consideration by Parliament, which
it is to be hoped will approach the subjeet in an
inlightened spirit, without spleen, and without
favour, and only influenced by the necessities
of the case and the credit and honour of the
nation.