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London, England, 1848-08-18 00:00:00

nistered with such vigour and efficiency in the House
of Lords on the 27th of June last.

This, however, is not to be the last attempt of
the Noble Lord to impede the business of the country.
Even at the last moment, and when others have aban-
doned their senatorial labours for a more congenial
atmosphere on the moors and the race-courses, we
find among the notices of motion given on the 14th
inst. (the same day that he endeavoured to get up
another " missing dispatch debate") one by his Lord-
ship, "On the third reading of the Sugar Duties Bill,
Ito move in schedule 4, in the first column of draw-
backs, 168. 4d. be reduced to 16s. 3d." Are we de-
ceived ? Can we have read the notice aright ? We
would almost believe that our eyes must have
misled us. Are we to have a renewal,of the debate
on the sugar duties, a subject which we had
fondly hoped was altogether exhausted during the
protracted discussions that took place on the question
" that the Speaker do now leave the chair," and
during the progress of the resolutions through the
Committee, when the several and conflicting views of
Protectionist and Free-trader, of Whig and Tory, of
Conservative and Radical, indeed of every party into
which the House is divided, were so fully and clearly
developed; and all this is to take place, not upon any
great question of policy, involving a principle,
but that a further remission of ld. per cwt. may be
made !! ! One penny. Surely the Noble Lord must
be jesting, he cannot seriously design to retard legis-
lation, to compel his own friends to remain away
from their country seats, at the harvest season, on so
trumpery a point. It almost appears as if he intended
to cast ridicule on the proceedings of Parliament, and
to teach the people how trivial are the matters to
which measures of great and paramount importance
have been compelled to give way.

Really, Mr. CHISHOLM ANSTEY and Mr. DAVID
URQUHART are becoming altogether intolerable.
They are the twin-nightmares of the Legislature.
They squat down upon the bosom of the exhausted
Parliament like a very Siamese•lncubus—" squeaking
and gibbering" in the ears of the ill-doomed Body
now kept by them in a state of prolonged and agonizing
prostration. The Members for Stafford and Youghal
are, without any exception whatever, the most unen-
durable nuisances in the whole of the British House
of Commons. We undertake to say, with all pos-
sible deliberation, and with the most decisive
emphasis, that these two gentlemen have ma-
naged between them to waste more of the
time of the House during the present session
than any other ninety men out of the 650 representa-
tives. Taking the speeches delivered by Mr. UEQU-
HART and Mr. ANSTEY, from the floor of the Com-
mons, at the most moderate calculation, we should

say that they have consumed not an hour less than a
whole fortnight out of the Parliamentary session
of 1848 ! Besides which, it must be remembered,
that upon every single occasion from first to last—
from the monster impeachment down to the most
peddling interruption—Messrs. ANSTEY and UEQU-
hART have spoken not conscientiously, but factiously,

not from a spirit of patriotism, but from a
feeling of spite, not from the smallest
solicitude to aid in the great labour of
legislation, but from a contemptible and splenetic
rancour against the political reputation of Lord PAL...
MERSTON. They have stuck to him with the perti-
nacity of burrs ; and have rendered their own names
the scorn and ridicule of the population, by the ab-
solute impotence of their hostility.
Within the last few days an unfortunate gentle-
man has been pronounced a madman by a Com-
mission De Lunatico Inquirendo, because his
imagination has juggled him into the belief
that Mr. DISRAELI the Younger, is nothing more
nor less than a demigod. Why do not some
of these charitable Commissioners institute a similar

inquiry into the condition of the two unfortunate
gentlemen, the representatives of Youghal and Staf-
ford, who regard Viscount PALMERSTON as some-

thing worse than a traitor, and as very little better
than an evil demon ? Is the peace of mind of the
author of " Contarini Fleming " to be consulted,
and that of her MAJESTY'S Principal Secretary for
Foreign Affairs to be made of no account
whatever ? Is the worship of the Honour-
able Member for Buckingham to be prohi-
bited even in the privacy of the dwelling-house
of an insane attorney, and are maledictions to be pro-
nounced ad libitum and with impunity, and that too
in all the publicity of the daily sittings of Parliament,
upon the head of the Noble Viscount the representa-
tive of the borough of Tiverton ?
To speak seriously, however, upon a matter which
affects public convenience so very materially—we
consider it to be a sacred duty devolving upon the
constituencies of Youghal and Stafford to call upon
Mr. DAVID URQUHART and Mr. CHISHOLM ANSTEY
to resign if they persist in wasting the
time of Parliament by these miserable person-
alities and factious interruptions. With all the ex-
perience we have derived from the political careers of
these two eccentric gentlemen, we cannot but protest
at once that their quibbling speeches of yesterday
evening are unexampled in the records of any
generation of the House of Commons. In this par-
ticular instance, even they themselves fail to be their
own parallel. Mr. ArisTEr, indeed, has for ever
and for ever marred what little shadow
or glimmer of reputation still remained to him
among the ranks of his co•religionists. His
speech of last night will not only excite the disgust
of the community at large, but it will also, and in an
especial manner, call forth the indignation of the
Roman Catholics of England. And it will do this,
because, instead of accepting with emotions amount-
ing almost to those of gratitude the Ministerial Bill
for the revival of diplomatic relations between the
QUEEN of these realms and the SOVEREIGN of the
Papal States, Mr. ANSTEY endeavoured to throw
ail impediment in the way of the measure,
simply because it emanated from the generous and
liberal policy of the Lord Viscount PALMERSTON !
So that the Member for Youghal subordinates the
interest of Roman Catholicism to the gratification of
a petty grudge against the Foreign Secretary of her
Britannic MAJESTY ! From the consideration, there.
fore, of all these circumstances in the conduct of Mr.
CHISHOLM ANSTEY, and of his fidus Achates, Mr.
DA.vm URQUHART, we cannot deprecate that conduct
in language too earnest, seeing that it is injurious to
the public interest, an inconvenience to the Ad-
ministration, and an insufferable annoyance to the
House.