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

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1952.

Another evening, and we shall have the short-hand
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 hav-
ing to pass through the preliminary labour of inaugu-
ration. After the swearing in of the Members, there
will come the election of the Mr. SPEAKER—the
candidate for that high office being, ns is now gene-
rally understood, tho Right Hon. CHABLIS SUAW
LEEBYRE, as the candidate of the Opposition, and
one whose character renders him not unacceptable as
the candidate of the Government. Whether the dis-
tinguished ex• Speaker, the representative of North
Hampshire, will resume his position as the first Com-
moner of Eagland, or whether he will be required to
give place to the Right Hon. the ATTORNEY
GENERAL, the member for Stamforl, 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 he definitively decided by
the LegislaXure. The circular recently issued by Mr.
MACKENZIE would appear, it is true, to indicate that
the re-election of Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE will be unop-
posed by the nomination of Sir FREDERICK TMESIGER
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 Dt.cember. It is desirable,
indeed, that the country at length he in some mea-
sure compensted for the disappointment resultieg
hum Be many official incidents leading to procrasti-
natval after procrastination. It is but right that
something like an understanding should be
arrived at between the representatives of the com-
munity and the Members of. her MAJESTY'S Govern-
inrnt.
state•
ofMuanttce:rsta
uncertainty,
continued long enough in a
proveily dtoetrti
hin calculated, if blindly persisted
in, tonetyn'tal to the national interests, and
especially
Individual mercantile interests
of the population. For the credit of the country
cannot possibly be
maintained in a healthy state so
long as there is doubt a
to the
nrintentions of the
Leaders of the Administration, Itis one of the ele-
mentary truths in the science
one of the most familiar ain4ng the tuov"uwe.at'k It is
rix iota, of politics. But, unfortunately, in acad-dneityloend
rn thi4, it is a truth just now requiring) 7
a very
lamentable, a direct resenforcement,nd
axiom that demands imperatively at the present junc-
ture an audible and Explicit repetitiok 111. bn
not long ago, gave his " Confidences" to
his fellow-Frenchmen—Lord DERBY must now give
his tollis fallow-Engli3hinen. Only instead of indulging
us with the ace:lint of 10% e-passages with GRA-
ZIELLA, he must gratify the multitude by telling them
all about his late Ministerial flirtation, with Free
Trade. The truth is, the country is bent upon hav-
ing the PRIME MINISTER, 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 community will not brook any further (a.
sapplemental disappointment.

A it;le tirne longer, therefore, and the nation will