The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-03 00:00:00

Oti-Li ti.im

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1852,

Another evening, and we shall have the short-band
writers again hard at work in the galleries at West-
minster. Several days must, of course, elapse be.
fore the Ministers will find themselves enabled "to
buckle to" in earnest—the House of Commons hay•

ins to pass through the preliminary labour of inaugu
ation. After the swearing in of the Members, there
will come the election of the Mr. SPEAKER—the
candidate for that high office being, as is now gene-
rally understood, the Right Hon. CHARLES SHAW
LEFETEE, as the candidate of the Opposition, and
one whose character renders him not unacceptable as
the candidate of the Government. Whether the dis-
tingnished ex• Speaker, the representative of North
Hampshire, will resume his position as the first Com-
moner of England, or whether he will be required to
give place to the Right Hon. the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL, the member for Stamford, and thereupon
retire into the illustrious privacy of the peerage—
rewarded by the coronet he has earned in three suc-
cessive Parliaments—are matters which will now in
the course of a few hours be definitively decided by
the Legislature. The circular recently issued by Mr.
MACKENZIE would appear, it is true, to indicate that
the re-election of Mr. SHAW LEFETRE will be unop-
posed by the nomination of Sir FREDERICK TIIESIGER
as the Ministerial candidate. Thereupon will follow
the series of what we may call funeral orations to be
pronounced by the more distinguished Members in
both Houses of Parliament over the memory of the
late Duke of WELLINGTON. Through these intro-
ductory labours of the short session now on the eve
of commencement, the Cabinet will have to struggle
manfully in the hope of at last setting themselves in
some way or other, to a certain extent, right with the
nation, either before the last few days of November,
or the first few days of December. It is desirable,
indeed, that the country at length be in some mea-
sure compensated for the disappointment resulting
from so many official incidents leading to procrasti-
nation after procrastination. It is but right that
s:):la"laing like an understanding should be
arrived at between the representatives of the com-
munity and the Members of her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment. Matters have continued long enough in a
state of uncertainty,
in, to prove inty,calculated, if blindly persisted
e,peciaily
tothedetrimental to the national interests, and
For
individual mercantile interests
of the population.
the credit of the country
cannot possibly be maintained in a healthy state so
long as there is doubt es
t
Leaders of the Administrationo•
of the intentions of the
It is one of the ele-
mentary truths in the Science
one of the most familiar among the more
It is
hackneyed
axn3
ios
of.
polities. But, unfortunately,
to this, it is a truth just now requiring, i n
in a very
addition
Jamentable, a direct re-enforcement, and
axiom that demands imperatively at the present ian
junc-
ture an audible and explicit repetition. M. 33;3
LA-
aIARTIEE, not lorg ego, gave his "Confidences" to
his fellow-Frenchmen--Lord DEMI! must now give
his to his fellow-Englishmen. Only instead of indulging
us with the acccunt of love-passages with GRA-
ZIILL,L, he must gratify the multitude by telling them
all about his late Ministerial flirtation, with Free
Trade. The truth i 3, the country is bent upon hav-
irg the PRIME AMIZ.ISTEIL at last making a clean
breast of it, and we doubt not that the Noble Earl
has himself become by this time sufficiently conscious
that the c-Jmmunity will not brook any further cr
eapplernental disappointment.
ittle time longer, therefore, and the nation will,