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London, England, 1830-06-29 00:00:00

4ency during her own daughter's minority, in case
of the demise of the Crown P—Times.
As, in referring to our Parliamentary report, it
will be seen that a Royal message is to be sent
'down to the two Houses this evening, it may not
be uninteresting to revert to the Parliamentary pro-
ceedings which took place on a similar occasion at
the commencement of the late King's reign. Par-
liament had been convoked for that Session, in No-
vember, to take into consideration the agitated state
of the country, and to discuss those proposed coer-,

dive measures which have since acquired such un-
enviable celebrity, under the name of " The Six
Acts." This very importantliart of the business
of the Session being accomplished before the Christ-
mas holidays, the two Houses adjourned, from
the end of December, 1819, to the 15th of Fe-

bruary, 1820. The demise of the Crown happening
ran the 29th of January, the Mouses met on the

30th, though it was a Sunday, and notwithstanding
previous adjournment to the middle of next
month. Many Members were sworn in on that day,
end the same necessary ceremony continued till the
2d of February, when the Houses adjourned till the'
17th, after the Royal funeral. On that day Lord

Liverpool brought down to the Lords, and Lord
Castlereagh to the other House, the message which
will be found in another part of our paper, and
which gave rise to a debate, which we likewise
transcribe as a probable precedent for the proceed-

ings of this evening. We are of course unae.

quainted with the nature of the promised naes.sage.
It may be of a nature to require no other answer to
the Throne but an address of condolence, or it
may, like that to which we have alluded, contain a
recommendation of important business. If the
latter be its object, it will differ from the proceed-
ing of the late reign, in being sent before, instead of
after, the funeral ; but such a departure from pre-
cedent may be rendered necessary by the urgency
of the business to which it will refer. The message
of the Liverpool Cabinet was a little exposed to
ridicule from its announcement of an approaching
dissolution, and its recommendation to Parliament
to hasten its own death, or to commit a kind of

suicide, by such an expeditious transaction of the
public business as would enable the Crown to dis-
pense with its services. The same object might
have been obtained by ministerial hint, and without
formally consulting the two Houses about the policy
'of sending them about their business.—Time.

We do not believe that any thing is yet known
with certainty as to the intention of William IV.
respecting the Administration. In the absence of
certain information, however, men have recourse to
conjecture. It is believed that the Duke of Wel-1

Iliniton and Mr. Peel will retain their respectiv
situations, but that few of the others will retail,

their present places. A question was last night
put by Mr. Brougham, the answer will throw light
on the above subject. Having given notice of
motion on the subject of Colonial Slavery, the HOT].
and Learned Gentleman observed, " being on his
legs, he begged to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman
opposite if the Government had made up their
minds as to the course they proposed to pursue with
respect to public business ? The country was ver,
much interested in that question ; and it was ex-
tremely desirous to know what time his Majesty's'
Government proposed to allow the House for the,
despatch of the business before it ?" Sir R. Peel
said, " he believed, and indeed he was certain, that
his Majesty would, to-morrow (this day), make
direct communication to the House on the subject,
and the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would, there-
fore, see at once how much better it would be not
to press for an answer on these questions, until that
Message was delivered. Any other course would,
indeed, tend to embarrass the movements of the
Government." The answer, then, implies that the
Message to be communicated this day will have re-
ference to the Ministry. There is, we believe, but
one opinion throughout the nation as to the ineffi-
ciency of the Ministry in its present state. The
Scotsman, of Saturday last, sums up the general
sentiment in a few pointed sentences

" It has long been obvious to us, that there was a ma-
terial defect in the machinery of the Duke of Wellington'.
Ministry. The firmness and decision of the chief is evi-
dently ill supported by the working power of the subal-
terns. Resolutions are boldly taken, but feebly defended ;
measures once submitted to the House are left for months
on the table, to be tugged at and torn to pieces by all
sorts of interested parties, or to be modified or mangled
by any chance speculator who turns his attention to the
subject. Hence frequent vacillation, and palpable ineffi-
ciency, procrastination within Parliament, and uncertainty,
without."

We do not believe that the Duke of Wellington
and Mr. Peel will hazard their own reputations, by
a prolonged attempt to conduct business with their
present allies. It is said that when an elephant
has failed in an attempt to extricate a gun which
has sunk in an Indian swamp, he cannot be brought
to renew it without further aid, but that when he
receives aid, he willingly recommences his task. We
suppose that the reason of the Duke will not serve
him worse at this conjuncture than the instinct of
the elephant. The quarters to which he must look
are the Whigs on the one hand and the Huskisson
party on the other. The Whigs have never seemed
fond of office, though the contrary has been fool-
ishly enough repeated ad nauseam. We are in-
clined to think that the Duke will hare recourse to
Mr. Huskisson and that he will not be refused.
The Duke is mot the man to allow any considerations
of delicacy to prevail with him in retaining a man the'
moment his services are no longer useful to him, or to
hesitate to solicit another when he finds he could
benefit by his services. When he parted so cava-
lierly with Mr. Huskisson and his friends, he evi-
dently thought that their places could more easily
be supplied than he has found they could be. En-
lightened on this point, he will yield to the force of
circumstances with the best grace possible.—ilforn-
lug Chronicle.
The public must expect, in the present state of
affairs, to be inundated with reports, more than one-
halt" of which will, probably, have little or no foun-
dation. Lists of new Administrations, for instance,
are handed about, which, in all probability, are the
mere inventions of the writers. That great changes
must and will take place cannot be doubted; but as
yet it is too early to suppose that any preliminaries
can have been settled, much less their results defi-.
nitively arranged and agreed upon. Among other
things, it is confidently asserted in some quarters
that Parliament will be dissolved immediately. This
we can scarcely credit for two reasons—the one,
that it would imply a settlement of the future Ad-:
ministration, which, as we have already said, can-
not by possibility have as yet been effected; and,
secondly, because the public business is in
such a state a: not to permit its being.
done. So much time has been exhausted in.
talking, and so little dedicated to doing, that we:
are, among other things, credibly informed that
there are duties both of Customs and Excise, the
right to collect which will expire on the sth of July
(that is, in ten days' time), for the continuance of
which no Bills have yet been brought in. If this be
so, these and other matters must be gone through
with by the present Parliament. That a dissolution
will take place as soon as it is practicable we enter--
tain no doubt, leaving, we have .7. G little doubt, much
of the public business, which the preset 3 House of
Commons has entered upon, unfinished Thia vete
of things the country mainly owes to official imbe-
cility, which in one quarter especially, has become
so apparent, as to render that department the laugh-
ingestock of every merchant's counting-house.--;
Whatever other changes may be contemplated, or
whatever may be their result, no change in the one..
department we altude to can be for the worse :—a
degrading avowal, we admit, for a country which
boasts of its schools, its colleges, its uorseries for
,statesmen.—Morning Herald.

It will be seen by our Parliamentary Report that
ISir Robert Peel informed the House of Commons
he had reason to believe his Majesty would be
pleased to deliver a Message to that House, ex-1
pressive of his Royal commands, this day, and that:
after the delivery of the Royal Message, he (Sir