The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-12 00:00:00

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET.-
" LES 3IERVEILLES GYMNASTIQUES"
By HENRI and PFAU
(aged Nine and Eleven years),
From the "Cirque Napoleon," Paris, at which place they
performed for Three Hundred Consecutive IN ig,hts, creating
the utmost enthusiasm and excitement.
The Double Feats on the Flying Trapeze of these Youthful
Artistes are unsurpassed for daring, skill, and grace.
They make their First Appearance in England at this
Establishment on MONDAY next, the 17th of February.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 12h. 24m.—Afternoon, 12h. 50m,
To.mounow.-Morning, lh. 13m.—Afternoon, lh. 36m

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 12, 1862.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
41—highest since noon yesterday.
38—lowest this morning and during the night.
41—this day at noon.
B ARO ILBTEII-30 .07 ; still falling.
WIND—N.-N.-Westerly ; light, with dull weather, and
some rain in the night.
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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1862.

It has of late years become the curious habit of
the House of Commons to waste a night or two at
the commencement of each session in endeavouring
to find out how possibly time—during the session
—may best be economised. Yesterday's sitting
may be taken as one presenting to view just a case
in point. The hog member for Brighton, early in
the evening, submittel a motion to the consideration
of the House—a motion suggestive that so soon as
the Estimates are ready, one night for certain shall
be set apart in each week for their consideration.
That is to say, the motion proposed that
the present loose and uncertain arrangement
with regard to the Estimates should cease and
determine. The previous arrangement according
to which the Estimates are nominally to be taken
into consideration every week at two separate
sittings of the House—motions ad libitum upon
going into Committee of Supply, taking always upon
these very Estimate nights precedence of the Esti-
mates themselves! This au plaisir among the
more crotchetty and whimsical of tho independent
representatives. So that actually—as we know
amazing experience any
full well by an
member with a grievance, or any number of mem-
bers 'with any number of grievances, may, without
hindrance, obstruct the financial business of the
session, while his or their whims and crotchets are
being coolly ventilated for the satisfaction (as often
happens) of the speakers themselves exclusively.
All kinds of evils arise quite manifestly
year after year from the existing arrange.
went. The consideration of the Estimates
by the House of Commons is invariably—more, be-
yond a doubt, than any of the parliamentary busi-
ness of the session—the veriest lottery. Millions
are voted repeatedly with little or no consideration
whatever. Work that ought to be spread over
many hours, is frequently crowded into as
many minutes. The purse. strings of the nation
are time and again untied for the abstrac-
tion of immense sums from the Treasury when
scarcely the needed " forty" can be counted upon
the empty benches
of the House of COranlClns, and