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London, England, 1865-02-08 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1865.

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Ti MES.—Happy is the nation whose annals are
dull, and happy is the time when a Royal Message
excites no curiosity. Twelve months ago we were
not in such a happy case. A nation loving peace
much, but loving honour more, was doubtful how
far its rulers had committed themselves in support
of a gallant people fighting against overwhehning
odds, and the words from the steps of the Throne
were waited for with eager curiosity. An unusual
throng of members of the Lower House attended
the Speaker to the gorgeous chamber of the Peers,
and weighed every sentence pronounced by the Lord
Chancellor, conscious that peace or war hung in the
balance. The people were uneasy, but ready for
either fate, and their representatives were agitated
by a sympathy which perfectly reflected the feel-
ings of the people. The present generation had for
once an opportunity of understanding the anxiety
with which a neighbouring nation always awaits the
utterances of its ruler, conscious that its destiny lies
in his hand, and ignorant of the schemes which are
busy in his brain. Our moribund Parliament en-
tered on its last stage yesterday like a veteran who
knows that the end of a long life cannot be far dis-
tant, but who can look back upon the past with no
more regret than all mortals must feel in such a
retrospect. It would be absurd to say that nothing
could have been better, but it would be unjust not to
allow that much might have been worse. In spite
of a crowd of difficulties the Ministers of the Crown
have shown a rare discretion in preserving the im-
partiality and the honour of the nation, and they
have been supported on all occasions in no ungrud-
ing spirit by the representatives of the people. A
Royal Message at the opening of Parliament is
always a review of progress for the past six months,
and in the dullest of times is so far serviceable. In
the speech which the Lord Chancellor read yesterday'
he was able to congratulate the country on the peace-
ful relations subsisting between all the European
Powers. It is, indeed, no fault of the English
nation that there is not peace throughout
the world. The Temple of Janus is not
shut, but we at least have done our best
to close the doors. Assiduously bent on develop-
ing sour own resources on improving the con-
dition and elevating the standard of happiness of
our people, we have not failed to present these aims
to the rulers of other nations, without forgetting
the liberty which is the first condition of material
prosperity. It is to be regretted that our steady aver-
sion from an unnatural war has only served to irri-
tate both the contending parties in North America.
Whatever sympathies may. have been begotten
in the progress of the war, all Englishmen were
united in reprobating the causeless origin, and all
remain united in deprecating the conditions on
which alone peace is declared to be possible. It is
impossible to contemplate the dissension which has
rent asunder the most powerful Federation the world
has ever seen without thinking of the new Federa-
tion in course of formation among the American pro-
vinces which still own allegiance to the British
Crown. The project for consolidating these vast
territories is dealt with in a most business-like
paragraph in the Royal Message. A plain 'histo-
rical narrative of the steps which have been taken
by the Delegates of the North American Provinces,
and a simple announcement that a bill will be laid
before Parliament to carry into effect the resolu-
tions of the Delegates if they shall be adopted by
the several Provincial Legislatures, serve to dismiss
one of the largest schemes which have ever been
discussed by statesmen. The apparently cursory
manner in which the proposed Federation is men-
tioned is, however, a tribute of respect rather than
a slight to Canadian politicians. It is the recogni-
tion of the practical emancipation of these confede-
rate Provinces from home control. The people and
Parliament of Great Britain are alike persuaded
that the time has passed when any interference
should be attempted with the deliberate wishes of
American colonists, and, without losing our interest
in the future destinies of a vast Continent bound
to us by every tie of kinship and friendship, we
are content to approve the independent action of
its inhabitants. We have only to turn our atten-
tion to New Zealand to perceive the dangers of a
different course of conduct. A sullen feeling of
dissatisfaction at having to contribute to the cost
of a war on the merits of which not one in
a hundred thousand of us entertains an opinion
is beginning to grow among Englishmen at home,
and a reciprocal resentment may not improbably be
awakened in New Zealand. The colonists complain
that they are unable to carry out a policy which
they have deliberately formed, and taxpayers not
unreasonably inquire why they should be involved
in wars to which they are inextricably engaged be-
fore they are aware of their existence. In the
middle of a contest we can only take note of the
evils attendant upon our existing policy ; to use the
illustration of Mr. Lincoln, it is bad to change
horses while crossing a stream, but on the restora-
tion of peace in New Zealand we may not unprofit-
ably endeavour to improve the relations between
the mother country and her dependencies. The
mysterious passages m the Queen's Message which
refer to India need an interpreter to make them in-
telligible. On the whole, the sentences submitted to
her Majesty by her advisers are singularly free from
those faults which made Cobbett select the dreadful
examples of his grammar from Royal Speeches, but
in the Indian paragraphs we find something to keep
up the memory of the old errors. Perhaps they were
framed by the statesman so rudely rebuked by a
young member at the close of last session for his
imperfect faculty of speech. Grave as was the dis-
aster which visited Bengal and Madras at the close
of last year, we can scarcely repress a smile when it
is made to appear that the prompt assistance ren-
dered by the officers of the Government produced
sufferings which were relieved by generous contri-
butions made in various parts of India. The mean-
ing of this paragraph may, however, be surmised,
which cannot be said of the second devoted to the
Indian Empire. The statement that a force has
been employed to. repress outrages on property
would appear to describe an increase in the police
for the purpose of putting down brigandage, but
Lord Granville had to exp'ain last night that it re-
ferred to the expedition against Bhootan. If this
be the case, and the Indian Secretary was the author
of the paragraph, he certainly does not deserve the
railing accusation of the young Scotch member last
session, for no man ever showed a profounder sense
of what has been cynically called " the true use of
speech."

POST.—The prologue having been duly delivered,
the inevitable speeches having been made, the regu-
lation questions having been asked, and the shadows
of coming motions having flitted across the floor, on
Friday night the first act of party warfare will be
placed upon the stage. Lord Palmerston will then
move that the House resolve itself into a Committee
of Supply for the purpose of filling up the important
office vacated by Mr. Massey having accepted the
post of Finance Minister in India. On both sides Mr.
Massey's resignation will be much regretted : it will
be regretted not only by the members of the House
itself, who had learnt to value his impartiality and
accurate knowledge of the rules and practice of Par-
liament, but equally by those outside the walls whose
transaction of private business brought them daily
in contact with him, and who daily felt the import-
ance of the facilities afforded to them by his urbanity,
experience, and unwearied assiduity. The qualities
which Mr. Massey has exhibited here are precisely
those which are most calculated to enable him to
succeed in the discharge of the new and arduous
functions which he is about to undertake. To find a
successor to Mr. Massey who will satisfy the re-
quirements of the position and the expectations of
the public is not an easy matter, and we believe
that till within the last twenty-four hours the Oppo-
sition thought that they perceived in the difficulty a
favourable occasion for another trial of party strength.
It will be proposed by Lord Palmerston that Mr.
Dodson, the member for the Eastern Division of
Sussex, shall be appointed to the vacancy created
by Mr. Massey's retirement. Mr. Dodson, having
taken high honours at Oxford, came into Parliament
in 1857, and has since made himself favourably
known by the temper and discretion with which he
has addressed himself to many important subjects
in the House, and by the ability with which he
has on various occasions discharged the duties of
chairman of committees up stairs. At the same
time it cannot be denied that Mr. Dodson is a
comparatively young member, and' that, whatever
promise of efficiency his career may hold out,
he can scarcely yet be said to have attained
a positively high reputation or an eminent
position. Under these circumstances it is not un-
natural that it should occur to the Leaders of the
Conservative party that something might be made
of the opportunity, and that, if they could run a
man of eminence and general popularity against
the Ministerial candidate, they might snatch the race
out of the fire and pull off a victory which, if not
productive of any very great practical advantage,
would make a good appearance, renovate some-
what their banners so much dragged through
the mud, and gather together once
Withinre this
theh
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scattered elements of their party- em..
view we believe three, if not four, eminent In
bag who it on the Congervative honcho were

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cessively asked by their leaders to allow themselves
to be put in nomination for the Chairmanship of
Ways and Means, and successively, we are given to
understand, each declined • and, upon this failure
to induce any man of Cabinet calibre to forego his
position as a politician and as a party debater, that
it was resolved not to oppose the nomination of Mr.
Dodson, who will therefore, in all probability, be
quietly appointed on Friday. Tile determination is
a wise one, and it is only just to the Conservatives
to say that we believe they were not entirely
uninfluenced by a feeling that they could
hardly with propriety contest the nomina-
tion to such a post with a Minister in
Lord Palmerston's position, unless they had a man
to propose of such high reputation as to make it
next to impossible for the House, and even the Mi-
nister, to do otherwise than accept him. This failure,
however, of the Conservatives to induce any lead-
ing politician to allow himself to be put in nomina-
tion, and their quiet acceptance of Mr. Dodson,
suggest a rather important consideration with regard
to the office itself. The Chairmanship of Ways and
Means, as the office still continues most unmean-
ingly to be designated, is now a very different
matter from what it was ten, or even half ten,
years ago. To take the chair in Committee of
Ways and Means is the least laborious and the
least important of the functions actually discharged
by this important officer of the House. Year after
year he has been loaded, as being the bearer of
burdens nearest at hand, with the conduct of every
piece of experimental legislation or administra-
tion in which the House from time to time
has been indulging ; and the result is that ,
he is now staggering under an accumulation of
duties that may well bring the most active and
robust man to a standstill, and envelop the most
acute and clear intellect in a muddle. Besides being
chairman of all committees in the house, Mr. Massey
was chairman of all committees on unopposed bills
out of the house ; and, it was, in addition, his func-
tion to examine thoroughly all private bills, whether
opposed or unopposed, and to communicate, if he
deemed it necessary, with the chairman of the com-
mittees on unopposed bills with regard to any points
to which he thought the attention of their com-
, mittees should be specially directed. These duties
involve great power and great responsibility, which
will be largely augmented should the plan of Col.
Patten, brought before the house at the close of last
session, be carried into effect. Such being the
duties, the power, and the responsibility of the
Commons' Chairman of Committees, we entertain a
strong opinion that the position conferred by hold-
ing it ought to be a much higher one than it is. It
ought to be such that no member of the house, bar-
ring the actual leaders on either side, would consider
it a sacrifice to accept the office. We know that the
late Sir Robert Peel strongly entertained this view.
He considered that the chairman of committees
ought to be a Privy Councillor, with a salary of not
less than £3,000 a year, and a residence in the
house. In this Parliament, so near its end, it may
not be worth while to make so large a change as
we have suggested, but we trust that on the assem-
bling of a new Parliament measures may be taken
to give to the office of chairman of committees that
prestige and importance which will induce first-rate
men to seek it as a stepping-stone, instead of re-
garding it, as they are now apt to do, as a siding
for shunting politicians.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT NORTHERN.

The directors of this company have determined to
recommend to the proprietors, at the general meet-
ing on the 25th inst., to declare a dividend for the
half-year ending the 31st of December last at the
rate of £8 15s. per cent. per annum on the original
stock of the company, giving for the half-year £4
7s. 6d. per cent. to the original stock, £3 per cent.
to the B stock, and £5 15s. per cent. to the A stock.
These rates will make the dividend for the whole
year 1864 as follows :—£7 2s. 6d. per cent. on the
original stock, £6 per cent. on the B stock, and £8
ss. per cent on the A stock.