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THE SUN•
LONDON, TUESDAI, JULY 29, 182.

To-morrow, according to annual custom, her MA-
JESTY'S Ministers celebrate the proximate close of
the Session by consuming whitebait down at Green-
wich. And between the whitebait dinner and the
grouse shooting comes, as a matter of course, the
Prorogation. So that, after all, the Houses
will be up rather earlier than later than ordinary
—in spite of those recent threatenings of the
prolongation of their labours by reason
of the lamentable distress resulting from the
Cotton Famine in Lincasbire. In effect, the pro-
bability appears to be that the Lords and Commons
will be dismissed by Royal Commission on
the sth proximo. It may seem at the first
glance as if the end of the Seesion had
thug come upon us, as somewhat of a surprise. There
have been so few of those usuel premonitory symp-
toms of its termination, known familiarly as the
massacre of the innocents. And for this simple
reason enough that there were scarcely any inno-
cents to massacre. Not that Parliament this vear
can be said to have shown itself more than ordi-
narily industrious. On the contrary, the Minis
terial programme of the legislative' labours set
down by Government for the two Houses at the
end of February and the beginning of April was—
as. indeed, can hardly be forgotte .
but insig-
nificant. It was the briefest, in a Way, that could
Refurmere. It was sketched out upon the principle
well have been adventured upon by a Cabinet of

apparently of letting well alone. The calamity
which had so very recently befallen the widowed
SOVEREIGN and her loyal and sympathising people
afforded Ministers, it is true, every reasonable ex-
cuse for allowing the session to be tided over quietly,
without much of effort hting made on the part
of Government to forward what is vaguely spoken of
amongst us as the course of progress. The lamented
death of the PRINCE CONSORT—the absence of the
Court from London throughout the whole of the
season in consequence of that bitter affliction to the
Crown—the apathy of the country at large in re-
gard to that remodelling of our representative
system which had during the four or five years
previously been talked of in the House and out of
the House usque ad nauseam—all combined to en-
courage ministers (reasonably enough it ought, in
simple justice to them, to be acknowledged) to do
and say—just as little as possible ! Nothing was
urgently pressing upon the attention of the Legis-
lature. It was precisely—and when most wanted—

the opportunity for—we wont say exactly apathy,
but we will say—as much quiescence, for as a little
stir and agitation of any serious kind, as could welt
be insured in either of the Houses of Parliament.
Not only did her MAJESTY'S Ministers recognise
the advisability of all this, but her MAJESTY'S
Opposition showed at once that they recognised it
quite as clearly themselves. The noble earl, the
leader of the Opposition, fairly intimated as much
when the Parliamentary Session was commencing.
The Speech from the Throne was, for once, loyally
responded to, both by Lords and Commons, "nemine
contradicente." The Address, in answer to it, was,
in each instance, but its eeho. Our legislators con-
tented themselves with expressing their profound
and heartfelt sympathy with our beloved QUEEN
in the great grief that had befallen her MAJESTY
under the permission of Divine Providence. In the
eloquent enunciation of these feelings of sympathy
for the QUEEN, and of gratitude and admiration
for the departed Prince, the first night's proceedings
in the two Houses may be said to have bees con-
sumed. Hansard will soon recall to general recollec-
tion how this was the case in those earlier pages of
the new volume now speedily forthcoming—pages
that will long be looked back to with a sorrowful in-
terest by those who best appreciate the blessings that
have accrued to the British empire from this last
quarter of a century's reign of the most constitutional
Sovereign that has ever sat upon the Throne of
England. Otherwise—apart from what was then
said in tribute to the memory of the PRINCE
CONSORT—the opening night's discussion might
almost as well have remained unreported, for any
light it threw upon the designs of the op-
posing ranks of politicians thus confronting
each other in, as nearly as possible, equal
The Government and the Oppos?-
tio❑ merely crossed foils, as it were—and foils con-
spicuous having their buttons firmly on. There
wes the salute—there was the attitudinizing. But
there was not a single thrust, daring or diffident,
and therefore was there no opportunity afforded
to the most cunning fencer of them all for
a display of his dexterity at the parry. Later on
in the Session no doubt the apparent equalisation
of the numbers, to the right hand and to the left
hard of Mr. Speaker, was not without its tempta-
tion to the Opposition. As the ultimate result of
which temptation there came those threatenings of
a raid every now and then beyond the border line
between the Outs and the Ins. As last Session
was flagrantly and disgracefully known as the
Session of the lost Wednesdays, the one now ex-
piring might be designated quite as characteristi-
cally—the Session of the Sham Fights on
the part of the Opposition. They would if they
could—but—they couldn'c! The last of these
sham fights, the' crowning absurdity of
them all, being the ever-memorable one
in which Mr. WALPOLE was put forward suddenly
as the chosen leader of the Opposition rank and
file, then seemingly with clenched hands and set
teeth bent upon making a bold rush upon Office.
Yet, hardly had that redoubtable champion of the
Opposition flung down his gage of battle before the
Government—when (it is preposterous still to re

numbers.

member so ridiculous an anti-climax) be timidly
picked it up again and slipped it into his pocket,
nearly frightened out of his senses, apparently, at

the mere clearing-of-the-throat of the most for

midable of his antagonists ! It was immediately
after this mcst ludicrous spectacle that the hon.

member for Liskeard capped the climax of his many
sharp sayings and home -truths this session, by desig-
nat. ng Lord PAMERSTON—as be es in point of fact

—a Political Dictator. And, as if cat ried away by
a sense of his own irresistible predominence in the

House of Commons, the Prime Minister, not very
long afterwards, scandalized the vast majority we
believe upon both sides of that house by his out-
rageous arrogance of tone and manner, of voice

- -
and language towards one of the most distinguished
men still ranked among its occupants. It will be
well for his interests and for those of his col--
leagues if the Premier thinks better of it all

—of himself and of the situation of things gene--
rally—during the calm interval of the holidays
sow almost immediately about to commence. Even

Lord PALMERSTON'S immense and unrivalled popu.
laxity willfailtosavehispowerfuladministration from

an abrupt and even ignominious downfall, if these
indecorous evidences of a haughty sense of his own

virtual Dictatorship are allowed by him to outrage

he amour. propro of all parties indiscriminately. His

[ordship has already had one lesson to this (fleet—

no further hack than within the last lustre. He

may yet have another, and, probably, it would,
this second time, be a final one, if he must needs

persist in offending the proud spirit of the Cum

mons, by any such welcome incentives to a fresh

display of its innate and absolute independence.

The third reading of the new Game Law Bill is
fixed for to-morrow. The manifest destiny of the
country squire s is to carry it ; yet if the three-
fourths of the House who have absented themselves
ftrem the discussions had any sense of what was due
o their own reputation and to public opinion, even
this indecent haste in "changing the laws of Eng-
land"
would not be successful. When the poor law
is under discussion
it
miseammberussingarte f
o seeor shtoaw n
dsitnrg o
e nun-
ous the agriculture.i
the " good old laws."
They see no objet ion to the
annihilation of the property of a manufacturing
Parish, before it shall have
any claim upon the
adjacent parishes, because so it seemed good in the
days of ELIZABETH. But when the protection of
hares and pheasants, not of operatives and their
families, is in question, then the most settled maxims
of English law and administration of justice go for
nothing. A man is to be compelled to convict him_
self over, not a dead fellow man, but over a dead
pheasant—murdering the latter being by much the
more serious business to sporting gentiemen, who
prefer to murder and sell the pheasants themselves.
So it is nothing worth objecting to, in the interest
of pheasants aLd hares, that the police should treat
every common cart, every carrier's cart, and every
kind of conveyance they meet, as a suspected
venicle, no information on oath or warrant inter-
vening. All such things are but the dust of old rusty
legal balances when game is in question, and hence,
to-morrow, a bill which the Home Secretary of
England has declared to be full of unconstitu-
tional enactments, a bill opposed by the most re-
spectable Conservatives in the House, is to be