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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1862

-• Conspicuous by its absence," is one topic in her
MAJESTY'S Speech—that of Parliamentary Reform.
Egn-I.llv conspicuous, for these days, we might say,
is the absence of another topic--that of Ecclesiastical
Reform. In other language not a sentence was there
indicating that anything had been done in the
cause of either civil or religious liberty.
Row is it that we take so quietly this sort of
thing?
Are we really content with the last
patching and repairing of our venerable constitu-
tion ? Does the nation really believe that its civil
and religions liberties are perfected, or so near per-
fection, that a whole session may be spent without
any attempt to amend them. As to " reaction,"
the more sensible Of the Tories laugh at the idea
themselves, A halt there
may be, but we should !
the result of some attempt to repeal in
like to see
thole or in pqrt any of the franchises
gained by the
Reform Act, or by any
of the acts which followed
upon it. No party dares to bring any such
angent or the Coen
proposition before Parli f
Lord try
. But
that with the advent to
for the furtherance power o pAtmpat..
SToN this time, all measures of
civil and religious liberty, have come to a stand, is
efe C o
hes, both a
perfectly true, and the QUEEN' p
Parliament,
the commencement and theclose t
had
have borne witness to the fact.
Her advisers
themselves,
no inclination to propose anything
others know it to be useless to repeat their former
proposals, even those which had been sanctioned by
both the great parties, and therefore her AfAJESTY
has nothing of the kind on which to congratulate
My Lords and Gentlemen" when she takes her
leave of them.
We must confess that, for all this, we think
the character of the Premier has most to answer
for. The universal opinion of such a political vete-
ran can hardly be a wrong one. For a large part
Of his life, he was thought, being absorbed in
Foreign policy, to be pretty much indifferent to
questions of political Reform. If he could but steer
our couvde abroad, he was content to let the Rus-
SELLS and GREYS, in their Reforming days, do
pretty much as they please. Of late, advance, in
years, and wealth is pretty correctly believed to
have changed i:Adifserence to aversion, and though
from necessity of position, a professed Liberal,
he is regarded neither on the Treasury benches, nor
on these of the Opposition, as a friend to any single,
much less to any comprehensive measure for libe-
ralising the Representation. It is held to be per-