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

AUSTRIA.

The Gazette de la Bourse publishes the following
from a letter, dated Vienna, 20th :—" Last Friday
M. de Bourqueney had an interview with .Count
Buol. It is reported that this interview had re-
ference to fresh negotiations, which Austria had
opened with the German Governments, in conse-
quence of the resolution of the Diet of 26th July.
They say that before the sending off of the last cir-
cular despatch the assurance ttat the four points
would not be rejected as the basis of future nepo-
tiation had been received from Paris. Austila
was desirous of satisfying herself further upon the
four points before despatching the circular. M.
de Bourqueney will leave Vienna for some weeks
at the end of August. After the end of this month
no more grain will be admitted without duty from
Russian Poland by Scazowa. The Minister of
Finance has stated that this permission had only,
existed up to the present time in virtue of a provi-
sionary power."

ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS OF L.U.D. —An
archery fete will be held by the members of this ancient
order, at the Crystal Palace grounds, on Tuesday, the
28th inst., when several prizes wills be given to the suc-
cessful competitors, and a medal, struck at the Crystal
Palace medal press, to commemorate their visit.
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE
CIVIL SERVICE.—Post Office—Mr. Matthew Austin has
been appointed postmaster of Dunshalt, in the room of
Mr. Stewart, resigned. Ordnance Department—Mr.
John J. Lardner, of the London district, Tower, has
been promoted from a junior clerkship to be third in-
spector of st-res, vice Mr. J. Davies, resigned. Key ham
Dockyard—Mr. George Turner, w-sistant mast-r ship-
wright at Devonport Yard, has been appointed to Key-
barn Yard. Mr. Churchward, clerk of the works for the
Reyham Tunnel, has been appointed superintendent of
works at Malta. Mr. James Macdonneil has been ap•
pointed superintendent engineer for the tunnel at Key-
ham, vice Church ward. Customs—Mr. James Morison,
first-class tidewaiter, has been promote(' to be tide sur-
veyor. Inland Revenue Department (Excise Branch)—
Mr. John Harris, examiner, has been appointed super-
visor of Balleymoney. Mr. 'William John Townsend,
officer of Chipping Norton-ride, was, by minute of the
31st ult., promoted to be officer of Yarmouth first divi-
sion.--Civil .Service Gazette.
LEEDS, Aug. 24.—We have no change to report in
the woollen cloth trade. There has been a steady busi-
ness tranascted in the warehouses during the current
week in seasonal le goods for the home market. Beavers,
pilots, double milled cloths, tweeds, mantle cloths and
Cloakings aro most in demand at present.

LOltll STANLEY-TTIE
SESSIOAS OF PARGIAMENT.
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TO THE EDITOR or'
session.
SIR,---The close of a Parliamenta.e7 to the
suegestions as
attest cipportunity for oflering a few , : a a
time of year when ditch sessions ought
1 titutiona 1: scbee'
THE
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I have no sympathy with that very es::
s•a of Cs m steool
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of politicians which thinks that the Hon.. 4
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oegin and I I ILI-. i
ought to sit all the year round, or nearly s. ee tha t pale
upon the executive. On the contrary. Ibe ie. pre 'pentad
he interests ire, on the whole, very sufficiently rs. vv. ace d
by the press during the usual aro necessely snipe. , :, dos
legislative busineee. An increase in the number 0 ' ele t°
during which Parliament should sit would add li to oe
the amount of work done and certainly would ill ogee
tendency to improve the manner of doing it. The f ;chide
incident to a nine or ten months' session would_ el, yu-
mmy members, too conscientious to leave their du'. Per.
performed or h .1f performed, and who, either frone.;_, cult
occupation or physical weakness, could not devote e.l. IVe
amount of time and attention in that case requirrtet
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err already in this country in the pub] of ,antedeneelealloa .1,1
much from the bodily strength of c' men, d, '
doing so lose some otherwise- available talent. e sid be
think that to advance farther in that direction te°, Jab, it
recommended by any reasonable person ; beeides,„7;{, the
Ministers are to have seats in Parliament, an air rforae
proceedingsof the Legislature, in addition to the P!3•o3jais•
ante of their own more immediate functions of a°,:. , ore'
tration, a recess of several months is indispensehle eetliblie
vent one of two evils-either that of the work efisPea 01
offices falling hopelessly in arrear, or of its being U es,ple
over—in reality, though not in name—by the reale°4l'.
minister to the irresponsible clerk.
general n
ere] E''
I assume, thereforeethat there exists no genes- °
it, 011
grounded desire to lengthen the session. To short! Ite gest
the other hand, seems difficult, if not impossible. 1 ateou
neither course; but accept its present durestiolr„,er
months on an average—as that which custom an* "i's, do
thence sanction. The question which I would TAW eesle
we choose our time of sitting so as to suit either the r
lic convenience or our own ? ' oTY
England is, to the best of my knowledge, the ° osse
tion in the world whose most civilised inh. sbiteute 'pro'
their summer in towns, and retire to winter in th°T.or
vinces. Every other country adopts a differ 'ent ar.), the
silent. Nature and common sense tell us 11.0 elliweyel,
pleasures of out-door life, of rural residence, .ee °f eetler,
at the time of year when days are long, when the Te ova
is warm, when trees and flowers are in full 1 'ealliAra'e
when the heated atmosphere 'of a populous ci tY, „tea
at once unwholesome and disagreeable. On, the loot
hand, frost, snow, 9nterrupted communicat ions' stare
nights, and short gloomy days, naturally engem trjoit.
and social habits, the assemblage of friend and 'attiouble
ances in a place where they may meet wiebou t, , evil
and the substitution of artificial enjoyments reeed°'
which nature has ceased to afford us. A (lay of ',tote!
I write as au M.P.) divided between clubs and con. T3ostA _
debates_ and drawing-rooms, ,
may be enjoyed a. V',
mush, and employed to as good purpose, in .Novee l
oet.'fe,
in July. But no one, unless his tastes be very Nodes it tee
and exclusively those of a sportsman, will cornea if tee
pleasures of the country in January with those' e; ",
country in J une. The question is one chiefly of OP tiled
does not bear much argument ; but if it were to be et rigll.,'
now for the first time, apart from the influence of pre; see
custom, I believe that by three-fourths of the vil i"
affected it would be decided in favour of the change ° 0
rventure to suggest. t alt 1'
Briefly, what I propose is this :—That Parliamen, woe
meet regularly, as near as possible, on the let of .04°1,e
ber, That it should sit for six weeks, adjourning alnesia
the 15th of December, for three weeks or a month., 4 ,
it should resume its sittings not later than the tv'eote
January, by which two elm months would have °es<
gained at the time when our melon usually cooemen de; '
namely, the Ist of February. Deduct those two ID elle
from the other end of the session, and Parlianeent.:oite%3 , I
be prorogued by the first or second, week in June, I
of the rst or second week in At. • 1 eenYce
I have treated this mainly asugus a matter of social of die
nience, but it may be looked at iu another light. lamest
jobs and blunders which escape the vigilance of Parbalt,b or.
the great bulk are perpetrated during the last mono ate
six weeks of the session, when heat, weariness, and toe
tractions of our brief summer have driven or drawn vise
all except some seventy or eighty members, a clue,te
jorit.y of whom are often official persons. That tlit oe
of things is an abuse no one can doubt ; it is adusillted,
all hands. Ido not say that it can be entirely relll,ei tl4'
for human energies will fail, and human zeal wel' toga ,
after a certain amount of continuous labour, at w"rgeer
season perfore.ed ; but the attendance would be far 6 bee
the excuse for absence feebler, and business therefered re-
ter done, if every M.P. had before him the wrtailltY, eel
lease before the middle of June. As matters; sten"'rerte
few constituencies will find serious fault with tb°l tio'l'
tentative, especially if be be an old or middleeege,' jell'
because on the plea of health lie has "paired Oil" ins rub'
Moreover, the intervention of a month's holidreee, ay
gested, between the first and second acts of t Ple 'eoye
will give a longer interval of rest than is now ;111.1,000
The Easter holidays, in the plan proposed, wale' ° racy.
undisturbed; at Whitsuntide none would be necett to e„
I may be told, "The subject is one which meg", tee;
left in the hands of ministers, party-leaders, se' Don/
who are entrusted with the management of Parliato ties ee
business." To such a criticism I reply, that ho tare t
parties are precisely the last persons who can velit" Ji,
originate an alteration of this kind. They cannot akfol i'w
nrovoke opposition or to lose support by 01.0117.1 K
ideas that may chance to be unpopular amonganY uee 01i.
political friends. A question not, in any large se? ;oit'o
tionally important, and not advantageous in a paro 0,10
of view, must be taken up by private and indePe
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members, if meant to be carried through at all. • ,eor,
I may be met with an objection to disturb the shit.
and most laudable practice of family gatherings at 0'
mss; bet for these ample leisure is allowed betwee°
15th' of December and the 15th of January. shire
It may be said that, considering the class from obi
Parliament is mainly recruited. the habits of fobs or
life will interfere with such an alteration of einsese i;
seasons as I suggest. But what is called the " seas', 0 u
0,
re: ulated by the session, not the session by the " seaeote
ft is to the augmented assi:luity of modern Parlisel:per
not to any change in the habits of the pleasure-loerieeoe
of the public, that we owe the lengthening out tin fe the
festivities into,
the middle of sumneer. Fifty years of itie
session began nearly when it doer' now; but it ego 01,
June. The social nuisance of which we eomPle itri"
being cooped up between walls of Imerk and mortar 'dere
nearly all the fine part of the year, is one of quite ° t 1
eille.
rigin. We who seek to abolish it are restorers, 11° ,
vatorsThe. es evef
conduct of Parliamentary bueireess will be -doe le
under the old as the new system. Evete the pro pooh,
budget at an earlier period there is now use" „VP,
muse no inconvenience or derangement except, liticis '
luring the first year. It is not armorer working I)°,erslc
whether in office or opposition, that thee present tbesesi
reents will find supporters. I have con Versed 0° oelPo
ject with many members of all parties an .i I have,,,eil,,
heard nay doubt exoressed either as to thee inel„etal ae
af the existing practice, or the possibility I.' f eref'er iqsa
Some argue, that though in times of ewer; 'ene.Y.',„loe eot
any question of interest presses, an suture "1 es;occel„o.l
frequently been held, yet that the earlier col. °,,0 teeer
of Parliamentary proceedings has not caused t °:_ii,biceolf,
earlier. They instance the session just closed- ;it tenets'.
gan in Deem. her last, and also that of 18 .2-3 else-1011
that the practice of meeting in autumn is, as mat toesol
stand, exceptional and irregular. The object bt„ etl.°ot,
some partictear measure, or to lake the sense of the "0, I?! die
representatives on the continued existence oe a s s,l ee
No effort is made to push on the ordinary busiee!mr, 01
year; the budget, the estimates, the votes of 9,1_170 peN at
taken at the usual time, and generally the Wa°, reseete
gained in advance is occupied by debates on Ow Clirlite
two topics. When we separated last year for tb:10,01,10
mss holidays nothing had been done except o,:reeti '
conduct of the war. and to pass the Militia B"' 0
Foreign Enlistment Bill. , h• b 1 cp*
Lastly, and this is the only "objection to sti,:leif ' en,
assign any validity whatever, it may be con d; of °lee,
there is in the house a numerous and valuable te) e re' or
whose love of sport leads them to profer a weiter-suits
and who must either sacrifice their favourite Pu 4
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neglect their public duties, , lit, ' o
Wit, rob'
If this were so it would be an argument of 4.":;j: I rob'
I, therefore, ge into the question a little in detail, °fts°
by incidentally, and not as laying stress upon -04114
vious fact that by keeping country gentl. ell cousleitlf
their homes in summer, and thereby alme;tel d'at a',
them to reside thereinter, the Legiseans rereieee"
encourages that particular kind of aport whi.l"6, -1 rsfe!
furious both to agriculture and to rural morei‘teerebsetiet
the preserving of hares and pheasants in large '',f or,teli'
hattees. But is it true that the amusements eb la te'lele'e
M.P.'s will he interfered with to any consider. . ,131411 c.
by a November meeting ? Let us see how the ,ereeelo fore
:Scotch moors, with their peculiar pursuits o'l7o let
ing and grouse shooting, are out of the question 101 l eiot ;
November. The lovers of those atuuseeneete„ the /' e,le
interfered with. Partridge shooting begins °,,",,,0 the IP-
A
September, and the best time for it is over he'''„otieenter
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posed day of Parliament meeting, not to °2l,o4;ootee,
month's recess at Christmas. Even for the, ;Id Fir I
hares and pheasants two full months are a11',,, sirs'
ber, half December, and half January. Stn.; ;Or 'elle
of the year is enough for the pastime of a Wool eats
in practice, it is well known that veil peter'eeme,
now reside in the country until near „Jett he l' es
coming up at intervals for an illlP,',lolee t"0.
or division. In this slack performance ' °,e. the"„epr
dividuals, though not abstractedly juntifieb'; tecotolllq, e
harm to the public than many might inelle of OW° rf
Most of the business transacted by the Efe„et. Vi 030 I
is business of detail. Business of detail cellirerli'llpoeselse`e
degree of reticence and patience, which in *I be tre'ilostigad,
assembly can one reasonably expect to filleThe 0," pill, r
by 650 persons. If, as in old times bee "-Welt° belllo.
done, every member of the house were eeeelPecieobt Itilisea i
and to remain present in his place, I greatli etts ~, i11i,411
much of the work which Parliament ne.:l 13at 'i oblo
would not remain altogether unperforree'"stool,„ at tor
am rather p Hireling than vindicating a ellt 001111
it is enough for my purpose to say that • mate ~
see
present time, and that it is not likely to be too;
de
• creased by the change proposed. iodi;6oog ttteebt
The question at issue is, in one cone
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this - shall the apathy which =deed- rooe,_u'of.soe),loll
part from established custom, and the rietei 00'00,41,
interference with the amusement of ei; by: pas, be fir
stand in the way of a reform recortence;ltlrceuetri of °bite
common sense, by the practice of all weesele, ante be ,e 0
wish of a.larga majority in Parliament etept, wh.of tei„
larger number of
are indirectly, bat powerfully, influenes,o7, posi;,o t7s
t abi.g -- tholii•
members of the Legislaeure? The 1 is
persons not in Parliatnel ue tbeeieoubt,tt
not one of national Wyse tance ; brs n
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0, es
concerns the convenience and comfort
cosi:tit/at s =
t servant,
business.—l remain your obedient $2
persons, and'that tends to improve the ° a 0-i•
Knowsley, Aug. 24.

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AN AWFULLY weresiboY, *1 1.--
troliew
~uncertainty of life took place in the O&M' .. ab°
utarAet, soho. A labobrin man yarned Sulllollo 0
just returned from hisgwork to din_ nert fell d°oool/
•maidcitmneat, tEmperate;
he was in the act of wiping his bands, and instanfol been
expired. He was about 45 years of see, and 1901
Ewa at orn.e procured, but life was Vit.e frail *
The '
disease
man had been for some time Offal-1, of s
and well-conducted nisi). oduot.
dwlife
asendef the heart, and leaves a family, colons 11,
four children, two of whom are veil i ecio
Otte k
THE LATE Mn. PATRIC PAEK.---The cirau is dot.-
under which this distingui,bed artis coo by 1;004
were somewhat peculiar, and we may sitY eIV„-rrinfe!
Whilst standing at the railway station at e-i. of o_l
he saw a porter Aruggling to get up a 10-1141- otepr"
in his usual impulsive. energetic Wooer' be Wed 11
forward to assist hini, and in the effort he rI3P h•
blood-vessel. The accident terminated fat.alll°P
fourth day. Scotsman.

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