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LONDON :
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1839.

Lord LYNDHURST last night made that annual

attack on the Ministers with which he, with the
art of a skilful advocate, has endeavoured on one or

;wo former occasions to wind up the Session. He
iegan by professing that it was a duty he had to
ierforin—a task he had undertaken, apparently at
:he suggestion of the party whose servant he is, and

he decitirel that he should perform it with simplicity
and firmness, and to the best of his ability. lie
referred to the great interests of the empire,' to the
great talents and ability required to conduct them,
and he proposed to test the vigour and energy of
the Ministers, by their conduct in Parliament,

Taking up the QUEEN'S Speech at the opening of
the Session, and describing it as the speech of the
Ministers, he said that it particularly recommended
to the attention of Parliament Municipal Corpora-
tions for Ireland, as essential to the peace of that

country, to carry out the recommendations of the Ec-
clesiastical Commissioners, required for the security
of the Church, and to improve the administration of

lustice. Then, passing each of these subjects in review,
the Noble and Learned Lord accused the Ministers

of gross neglect in not forwarding the Irish Corpo-
rations Bill through Parliament, accused them of
making inconsistent objections to the Lords' amend-
ments, and accused them of having tacked on the
clauses relative to the transferring the Grand Jury
cess to the Town Councils, with a view to have an

opportunity of throwing out the Bill and keeping
alive a grievance. He stigmatized their conduct in
tacking on those clauses as insulting to the House
of Lords, and as tricky and disingenuous. They
had taken no steps whatever to carry out the recom-
mendations of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
but had abandoned the Bill which had been sent
down from the House of Lords. Not one measure

of any kind or form had they introduced to improve
the administration of justice. Of that no part was
more important than the Court of Chancery, which
he had brought under their Lordships' notice, and
proved that it was a most intolerable grievance. The
Ministers had consented to his plans of improve.
ment, but they had not taken a single step to carry
them into effect. The Noble and Learned Lord
concluded this part of his speech by pronouncing
that the Ministers were self-condemned, and stood
convicted of being totally unable, by wanting
the confidence of Parliament, and by wanting
vigour and abilities, to conduct the Goveru-
me►nt of the country. He insisted, and on such
a point must he considered an adequate authority,
that for any set of men to possess themselves of the
Government, and to presume to administer the

national affairs, without talents and vigour to war-
rant that possession, was contrary to the Constitu-
tion, was a high misdemeanour, and subjected then:
to impeachment.
Subsequently, reviewing the Canada quest.on—
to hear the debate on which he said Noble
Lords had hurried from all parts of the
country and from abroad, which, after a little per-
sonal altercation, had dropped into oblivion—he
examined the Ministers' legislation on that point,
which he condemned both for delay and haste, and
plainly charged them with inventing an excuse for
putting off the 13ii1. They had stater
recent news from Canada prevented them from
proceeding with the measure for uniting Ow
two Canadas, but what that news was had
never transpired. Their conduct on the Ja-
maica Biii, including the interiude of the change
of Ministry,
was unsparingly and unscrupulously
vilified, and the education scheme was not forgot-
ten. Coming to the close of the Session, he said
that they had swept out their offices, and poured a
heap of Bilis on their Lordships' table, to make a
show. Some of them were inoffensive, some were
mischievous, some were jobbing, and some founded
—like the Bill for the Sale of Spirits in Ireland,
which was so bad that nobody defended it in the
House of Lords—on a most base compromise and
desertion of duty. The conduct of Ministers on
the Postage Duties was not spared, and they were
plainly told that they did not wish that mea-
sure to pass—that they brought it forward to de-
ceive their friends, having invented the pledge
to procure its rejection in the Commons, and hav-
ing relied on the Lords, as the subalterns of Govern-
ment had openly sz:;d, to kick out the Bill. Their
policy
was
ii.ihie -vol us* base, t kr g
conduct shabby. It was
intriguing,
mischievous,
ing. He applied to rue
In-'
it almost every offensive epi-
thet. They were the causes of all the agitation
dienlutidie-
country ; they had excited the people to sedition, to
gain their own ends, and were now punishing the
victims of their fraud and ambition. Perhaps A
clearer, a more able, a more searehinn and a more
severe attack was never made on ant}r'set of roan ;
and no person who heard it, or who reads it, but

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