The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-12 00:00:00

THERMOMETER.

This morning
This day at Two o'clock 6l

Barometer-29.85.
Wind—S.-E.; calm, with heavy rain.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tale DLT.—Morning, 11h. 2m.—Afternoon, 11h. 36m.
To-p4oe.n.ovr.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. Om.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1863.

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Last evening's discussion in the House of Com
mons brought with it a foreshadowing of the close
of the Session. P did so is the shape of a purely
technical series of objections made by one or two
members very dibcerningly, in reference to the
devices resorted to by one or other of the members
of the Government, with a view to the frittering
away of the time of the H 31190 by an occasional and
most unlooked-for count out. The hon. and learned
gentleman the member for Youghal was the one who
yesterday seized the opportunity of directing the at-
tention the popular branch of the Legislature to the
.exceeding inconvenience resultin g only too frequently
from these truly vexatious little Ministerial sur-
prises. Reminding the House that only so recently
as 1861 Thursdays were allotted to the Government,
the motion of adjournment on Fridays being also
dispensed with, Mr. BUTT by that simple reminder
demonstrated how it was that only a ceaple of years
since two opportunities were snatched from the
Teach of private members for bringing forward
motions in which they, as private members, hap-
pened to be interested. Nay, the fact was CO
entirely what the member for Youghal stated it to be
last evening, that with a view to compensate for the
loss of these same vanished opportunities for private
members a standing order was passed, declaring
that while committees of supply or of ways and
means were open, the first order of the day on Fri-
day should be either supply or ways and means, and
upon that order being read the question should be
proposed that Mr. SPEAKER do leave the
chair. Since that order morning sittings have
been continually fixed for Fridays—that very
practise, however, defeating, as the member for
Youghal insisted with good show of reason yester-
day, both the letter and the spirit of the arrange-
ment contemplated by the standing order of the
session before last. How, is it asked ? By only
too simple a means it may be said—two hours of
the time which it was the object of those standing
orders to give to private members being practically
deducted by the morning sitting. Several counts
out on Friday evenings, in point of fact, have
actually occurred already this session in conse-
Znee- Government has conveniently failed to
f e a house when the interrupted business
of
the day was nominally about to be
resumed. Inconvenient notices of motion were
thus to be got rid
i of
_ readily enough by Her MA-
JESTY'S Ministers.pleastin to
Time,
be and events, and measures
are thus
tided over by Ministers
whenever they careto avail
themselves of so eli-
gible an opportunity. The auPension of the sit-
tings for two hours on the Fridayevenings
the opportunity, and of that golden opportunity
affords
Ministers are not slow to avail themselves,

Althour.; h no result followed from the brief de.
bate in thQ Upper House last night in reference to
the Prussian Convention, and the Foreign Secretary
was unable to give any further information of im-
portance concerning it, there is no reason to regret
that the question has been again brought forward.
The tone of the discussion will serve at e
show M. BISMARK the feelings with which l ast to
Eng-
lish politicians of all sides regard this obnoxious
treaty, and he may also reflect with advantage on
the tone in which the conduct of the Government of
Prussia was spoken of by the representatives of the
governing class in Great Britain. The Earl of
CARNAKVON, on inquiring whether Earl RUSSELL
could give him any further information on the
subject of this famous treaty than that which was
afforded by the correspondence on Polish affairs
already laid before Parliament, expressed his
anxiety to avoid touching upon any questions that