The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-05 00:00:00

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as a remote contingency. in the speedy dissolution
of Parliament, the concern of Ministers is, on the
contrary, sufficiently apparent; inasmuch as that
measure relieves theM from the perplexity Into
which their ill-considered measure, of foreign
finance, and legal reform had drawn them, everts
the discomfiture and disgrace which awaited them)
affords .41 certain prolongation, for a. limited term, of
their power, together with the pleasing hope of it
favourable turn in the elections, and to the Monarch
the great personal adventage of having his:Civil LIU
settled by a new, rather than an expiring Parliament..
in every respect, therefore, the casualty furidshieg
the pretext for an immediate dissolution, was a most
fortunate occurrence for thODuke of Wellington's
Administration.. To have asked for the Vote of
Credit, . mtat. the same time to have broached the
Regency Question, would, however, have been im-
possible; accordingly,' all the urgent , Motions
re-
commending an instant settlement of the succession,
were postponed to the 'perstmet considerations: of
Ministers; and they will, now, as Sir Robert 'Paton
Micky night intimated, contend that.the House. of
Commons is bound by the vote into which it was
betrayed on Widoesday, and that having ptomised
the Crown to vote an immediate supply, it is no
longer,competent . for the House to take up any
subject, however momentous to the peace and hap-
pineu of the nation, or of whatever paramount and
' transcendent importance in. the awakened minds,
and to the 'roused eonscionces!of the representatives
of the peopla;-.-Morning Chronicle.
An incidental discussion arose on Friday_ night in.
the House of Commons, 011. a subject of some interest
to lion, Members, Namely, the manner in which
what they utter is communicated through the Press
to the country. A strange notion. has taken .Pore.
session of some Hon. Members, that it is poislble
to report all that is uttered in' both Houses, and to
publish what is reported each day Mr. R. Da-
venport may be excused for the absurdities lie utters
on thissubject, because he is one of the /ogles con-
surnere nail class, and never probably troubled him-
self with either inquiry, or calculation. But Mr.
Mohnen is a men of business, and ought to know
'something of means and ends, The: Hon. Member
for Clare thought the instance. which gave rise to
the discussion " was only one out of many in-
stances of the awkward and slovenly manner in
Whieh the proceedings of that House were reported;
and which rendered it most advisable that there
should be persons appointed for that purpose,. who
would .10 responsible for the proper fulfilMent of
their duty." Now were there persona appointed
by that House to report all that takes place, as on
many nights doting this Session the House of Coin-
Mims .hoe sat twelve hour., and on few less than
eight hours, the broadest of the broad sheets could
not contain the helfof what is uttered. But then who
would read two large sheets, fillectfrom beginning
to end every day with nothing bet debate? The
object of lion. Members is to- be read, and Mr.
Q Connell may have influence enough to cape per.
sons to be appointed who would be responsible for
.the proper fulfilment of their duty; but he cerium
compel people to sacrifice their• property: by. pub-
lishing what would mot be read, and consequently
would remain on their hands, An, abridgemeot of
what Is uttered essentially necessary; and we
would just ask Mr. O'Connell to consider one mo-
ment how the Members would agree among them-
selves as to the shares allotted to each. If the
abridgetnent were to be executed without reference
to the quality or interest of the speech, upon the
principle of assigning to each Member a certain pro-
portion what he spoke, this might satisfy the
Members who now complain, but it would not sa-
tisfy the public, who wish to read what 'is most
striking in argument or language. If, on the othOr
hand, the responsible functionaries were to exercise
a discretion, the amour propre of Members would
instantly ~take, the alarm, and the whole of
one sitting would be occupied controversie*
as to the justice or injustice done in a preceding sit-
ting to differing. Members. Now, at present, the dif-
ferent newspapers save the Honourable House all
this heart-burning, and act upon a principie which
Hon. Members cannot possibly alter for the better.
It is their interest to lay before their readers us full
an account as they can give of what the public are
most anxious to know; and when one newspaper
fails in its proper execution of this task, the coin-
petition of other newspapers, by which the public
are enabled to make comparisons, administers a pro-
Pet' correction. There is no plan which would not
be More open to objection than that which it at
present followed, There is this to be said in favour
of it—that year utter year, it has become more and
more perfect ; fur there is no comparisen between
the manner in which the debates roc reported now,
and the manner in which they were reported thirty
or twenty year* ago, whether fulness or fidelity be
taken as the criterion. Of this any Hon. Member
may satisfy himself try going to Peel's Coffee-house,
and consulting- the files of the Morning Papers. Sir
Robert Peel very much doubted the policy of the
arrangement proposed, for giving faithfully every
word that was uttered in' the House, And thought
they had no right to complain of the4ise and use-
ful discretion exercised by the Parliamentary Re..
porters. So much for the wisdom of the Honour
able floule,«....fiforning Chronicle.
In the House of Commons onp Friday night, Lord
Morpeth presented a petition, signed by 1,100 letters
press printers of London and-Westminster, tom-
plaining of the injury sustained by this important
branch of trade, in consequence of the high. rate'of
stamp duties imposed on newspapers and advertise-
mints. The Noble Lord, in supporting the prayer
of the petition for the lowering of those duties, took
a comparative review of the circulation of news-
papers in France, the United States of America, end
this country, and maintained, upon coinpetent autho-
rity, that the number of newspapers in circulation in
the United Kingdom, was far from proportionate to
the superior intelligence and enterprise of this
country Its compared with other nations. In second-
init. the motion for bringing up the. petition, Mr. 13.
Rice took occasion to obtrude upon the Mute *
complaint of some misrepresentation of an opinion
which had fallen from him in a Parliamentary De-
bate, and which lind appeared in two Irish news-
papers. lie was followed by Colonel Sibthorpe,
who said " if there ever had been any cause of
complaint against the fidelity of the reports of
their proceedings, it was not, and ought not,
to he imputed to the reporters for the 'news.
papers, but to themselves, for their neglect, in not
giving those gentlemen PrOPer accommodation
and greater facilities in reporting with due con-
venlence, and in a position favourable to the distinct
hearing what fell from Hon. Members." These oh-
1401010ns called up Mr, O'Connell, who Is anxious
to make the Irish public believe that his failure in
the House of Commons, is attributable to the pars-
tial or inefficient manner in which the gentlemen
reporting the debates In Parliament perform their
duties, He said, it' was not at all surprisiog that
such mistakes or misrepresentations should occur in
en Irish paper, when they took into consideration
the' drowsy way in which the reports of thel House
were given every night by persons over whom they
had no controul—these debates, it was well IttleiVfl,
were given in spite of the tronsmireilees to be appre-
hended from a breach of privilege, ,but were gIYOII
according to the dispositions of the. reporters, who
just gave what speech they liked, ml.amitted,what
they disliked. it is *trite pert of the politieal
tactics of the Learned- and Hon: Member for Chas
to throw- blame upon reporters and he has W..
quently screened himself from the responsibility,of
his violent tirades out of -Parliament' by imputing
intemperate expressloos to the inventive imagina-
tions of the reporters. In Parliament, it is true, be
does not err on the side of inteinperinici4 but of
tameness--and there he treats reporters with Cora"'
melious indignetion, not for what. they hole done
but.for what they have omitted to. do. Ile would
have the deluded " seven millions" in Ireland sup.
pose that he maintains the .saine high tone within
the walls of St, Stephen's which distinguished him
as the turbulent dictator otlbit', 'bait Ithschusge,
He would have thorn believe that his oratorical ge-