The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-12 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12. 1840.

The Session of Parliament just closed was one
of the most wearisome and least interesting we ever
lelnernber. No party was pleased with it unless
It be the printers, paper-makers, and draughtsmen, if
theY be paid by the job, for the Bills and Repoits
twere very numerous. The bulk of the people dis-
Ike the increase of the taxes ; the Radicals think
li° Progress has been made in reform ; the Anti-
e• Qrll"law men justly complain because that noxious
InlPost was not lessened ; the Whigs were dis-
Pleased at the smallness of their power ; the Con-
te rvatives, according to the Herald, mourn over
their blighted prospects.
Fruitful of evil,' said our Contemporary yesterday,
s
nearly all Parliamentary sessions have, of late years,
thi_n,, the session. of 1840 has been, as we venture to
tuousit, beyond, all comparison the most mischievous, the
tout "nin:Jus of disaster to the best interests of the
Tivntr:;, which recent times have witnes-ed
cause of Conservatism has, during the Session of
.10, received, indeed, a heavy blow and great discou-
-uagement.' True Conservative principles have, in fact,
iexPounders amongst the leaders' of opposition. Sir
v_nbert Peel and his more immediate associates are but
ne professors of a modified Whiggery; and, like genuine
hags, he and his aides-de-camp approve themselves
ir• dY, on all suitable occasions, to insult the dignity of
d'e law, to betray the cause of the Church, and to aban-
°n the defence of native industry."
'The Conservatives triumphs have ruined the Tory
'rause. The end of the fight is that Sir It. PEEL and
the Duke of WELLINGTON are converted, by the
force of circumstances, to Whiggery. Lord STANLEY
cis Toryism by no means profitable, and the
,ories begin to mistrust him. However much the
Whigs may be flattered by the conversion, they see
that it removes some of the obstacles which lay be-
tw'ixt the leading Tories and office, and multiplies
the competitors for place. No parties are pleased
With the Session, and all, we believe, are glad that
it is brought to an end without any change, for
Which neither the nation nor rival statesmen are
Prepared.

To the public the Session has been dead long
ego. The Duke of WELLINGTON'S declaration
against the Church Extension humbug, and Lord
PALMERSTON'S excellent speech on our foreign
policy, have excited some interest, but though
delivered in Parliament, they were not much con-
nected with its business, and would have com-
manded attention wherever they might have been
spoken. Some few Irish corporators may have
looked anxiously to the passing of the Irish
Municipal Bill, and some few minor Canons
Or Bishops, whose power is to be increased
b'y the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues
13111, may have attended to this measure, but the
public has not taken the smallest interest in either
question. Nor are the people to be blamed for this
or blamed for the general weariness they have felt
at the conduct of Parliament ; their weariness has
a reasonable and just foundation. 'The publicknow
that these measures, and many others, with which
Parliament has occupied itself, are now of no earthly
Inportance. The time is gone by when they
blight, perhaps, have lessened, if they could not
have remedied, our social disorder. Now they are
not even palliatives, and the public, in addition to
their other causes of mistrust, begin to suspect
that public men are either wholly ignorant of what
they are doing, or totally insincere in what they say.
We do not blame tine Parliament for not having
done more, we think it has done too much, and
what it has done is not of the right sort. We could
have dispensed with the debate on privilege,
and regard the time which was devoted to Irish re-
gistration as entirely wasted. A great number of
measures were discussed in both Houses which have
come to nothing, such as Mr. KELLY'S Bill to
abolish the punishment of death, and the LORD
CHANCELLOR'S Bill to improve the administration