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LONDON :
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1839.

We have to announce more changes in the
Cabinet.
As the Canada question will be the prominent
subject for discussion, it is supposed, next Session,
and as the person who has to conduct that through
tie House of Commons must be quite master of it,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the Marquis of NOR-.
ALANBY change office, the former goes to the
Colonies, and the latter to the Home Office.
Viscount Howtcx has resigned, and leaves the
Ministry.

Mr. ROBHIBT GORDON, and not Mr. C. WOOD,
as has been stated, is to be the second Secretary of
the Treasury, in the place of Mr. T. BARING.
As Mr. C. WooD is connected with Lord Howtcx,
it is supposed that he will follow his lead, and also
quit the Government.

We shall say nothing at present of the effects of
these changes ; but if they should introduce some
more young blood into the Cabinet, or some men
of more popular opinions, we should esteem them
advantageous.

- he question of what the Executive Government
should perform in the Legislature seems fairly
launched for discussion. The Allorning Chronicle
says—

Parliament has outgrown that period, and can never re.
turn to its infancy. At present its great business is, and
must be, legislation. And not only so, but what with the
complicated enactments of the Statute book, and the com-
plicated relations of society, it is mainly through the forms
of legislation that the business of the country can be effici-
entlyconducted. " Parliament has actually drawn to itself
all manner of business, down to the division of a common,
a turnpike bill, nay even a suit for a divorce." Even were
this clumsy machinery simplified, and Parliament ever so
much improved, legislation must still remain its great busi-
ness ; and, so 'wig as that is the case, the Administration
must be responsible for the progress and character of legis-
lation.

i We have no ambition for a controversy but may
be permitted to offer a few remarks on a subject we
have before adverted to. The assertion that it is
mainly through the forms of legislation that the
business of the country can be efficiently conducted, Amongst the police cases yesterday there was one o,
converts the Legislature into the Executive and im- a young sailor, who was found lying drunk in the
plies that the Government must be carried on from Broadway, Westminster, and who was sent by the
day to day by the instrumentality of the eleven Magistrate of Queen-square for two days to the
,
hundred gentlemen who constitute the two Houses House of Correction. This punishment was
of Parliament. Such another Executive—and in awarded under the new Police Act. No doubt it
, practice our Executive, already corresponds to the
was a great nuisance for the man to. lie' like a pig
1 theory of our Contemporary, for there is no conceiv- in the street, but it was a gross injustice to send
able thing, from appointing a police constable to him to prison for two days for his folly. We take
fitting out a fleet, to which some Member or other it for granted that he was a sailor, and we will sup-
of the two Houses does not continually call the pose that he was just returned from sea. Perhaps
attention of Parliament—no where exists. If the he met with a friend, but whether he did or not,
functions of the Legislature are to be so much ex- every body knows that a sailor just come on shore
tended, shat is to be done when it is not in Ses- is not in possession of his senses. He is drunk
8.1411 ? Who is then to carry on the business of with excitement before he tastes grog. To tread the
the country -,-.,
conclusion to which our earth after a long absence on the ocean throws a
Contemporare's Ihe
the two lioujses refinia,rk forces us is, that either man into a delirium, and to punish him for that,
Parliament must remain perma- or its consequences, is not merely unjust, it is a gross
neatly in Sessien,
Assembly of ScotlannrdtheY must, like the General piece of cruelty. We do not blame the Magistrate,
look after 'legislation whappoint a Committee to he only did his duty; we blame the law, or rather,
hher MAJESTY, by a we blame the stupid meddling law-makers, who,
prorogatieni, puts an end ten
tthe mete efficient method e,o t•
Probably under the pretext of preserving the morals of the
euses should be divided iennetoldSfesbseiotnh.at the two people, commit a scandalous piece of injustice.
ooturthhs, that each Admit that drunkenness is a vice, it hurts only the
fourth shall have the authorit
Collective drunkard. He trespasses on no other person's rights ;
'body, should sit only for three months ath a time, he inflicts no injury on another by merely drinking
arid then be relieved by another fourth,
more grog than he can bear ; but the law-makers,
the Parliament may be kept permanently in ySewsshioienh.
The present plan of allowing the Parliament o i in the wantonness of their power, inflict a great in-
. is bound to respect.
to be assembled fur one part of the year,n jury on him, and trespass on the rights they are
to leave the country, on the plan of goy,
everyrnieng We
by the Legislature, for six months in
from our
, y ar of the law.
have one strong objection to the principle
without any efficient means of conducting its bu. i„ fr Am ta
npirleesrse.n t drun
Withoutlee n n erseslyiisn
relying
ims aupcphe aorn-
siness. the teetotallers the habits of the gentry are on this
The assertion that the Administration must be point Very m'h •
responsible for the progress and character of legisla- our roysterinu
ec ashi _irupron ved. . Half a century_ ago
, dg nobility wo not have
tion, places the Houses of Parliament under the passed•a law like the new Police Act.uld
They then
control of the Ministry, instead of the Ministry not only practiced but countenanced drunkenness.
being controlled be them. If the business of the They have become comparatively sober, and their
country is to be efficiently conducted by legislation, example will undoubtedly be followed. The very
and the .Ministers are to be responsible for its pro- fact that such a law is gll
gress and character the whole must be in their readily passed is of itselfenera a decy
isidemanded andv
.hl
o
hands. 'IOUs reverses the usual constitutional the community has become
generallyh
.sensi e
maxim, that the Ministers are responsible to Par-
of the evils of drunkenness, and that
liament, for they are made responsible for what Par- I already become, or is becoming, incorporated in
liament _ does. On a new question like this there , our manners. Now, one objection to such med•
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