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London, England, 1856-07-29 00:00:00

parties, was most properly rejecte d by the Com-

moss.

Shortly after the commencement of the Session
;he Parisian Conferences were held, and, greatly

against the wishes of the people, a temporary
armistice was signed. From that moment it was
seen that England was betrayed, and that the in-
terests of her people were saerifis:ed to the exi-

gencies of despotism.
The intelligence of the signature of the Treaty,
th• lame and impotent conclusion of a war at
one time conducted under more favourable
auspices, was received on the Ist of April, the
only suitable day for such an announcement.
But even that did not break the silence of Par-
liament. The ratifications had not yet been ex-

changed, and the chosen Representatives of the
People did not hazard a single inquiry as to the
nature of the terms and stipulations while there
was yet time to obtain any modification thereof.
But this was not all ; after the Treaty had
been duly signed, sealed, and delivered—after
the honour of Russia had been so vigilantly
guarded and effectually preserved, the privileges

whichinsured the maritime supremacy of Great
Britain, which our greatest admiral had declared
we would sacrifice " our last ship, our last sea-
seaman, and our last pound" to maintain
unimpaired, were wickedly and wantonly re-
linquished by a stroke of the diplomatic
pen, and that without the assent of the co-ordi-
nate Estates of the realm, or even the mere form
of consultation being observed. Both Houses
swallowed their respective leeks with edifying
humility. They did not even venture to remon-
strate at the gross indignity to which they were
thus subjected I
Another disgrace wss inflicted on the nation.
The PIERCE-MARCY Cabinet sent back Mr.
CRAMPTON and three English Consuls, with gross
contumely. The Government, however, accepted
the castigation, turned the other cheek to the
smiter, and retained Mr. DALLAS in England.
It was perfectly notorious that these ill-treated
gentlemen had acted entirely under instructions
which they were bound to obey, but
inisters permitted them to be made scapegoats,
while they sneaked out of the difficulty in which
they were involved, from the desire to gratify a
person of extraordinary influence by the enlist-
ment of German troops, and the establishment of
German garrisons throughout the chief towns of
the country. And yet there were no questions cu
which they obtained more decisive majorities than
those relating to the deplorable negligence that
led to the sacrifice of Kars and the foreign enlist-
ment in America ! Indeed on every direct trial of
strength that could lead to a change of Ministry,
and to the much-dreaded appeal to the country,
they were well supported, while their most im
portant measures were mutilated and rejected
from what Mr. DISRAELI tells us was the want of
confidence in the House.
In the Conservative ranks there was great con.
fusion and insubordination. There was, in fact,
no bond of union to cement the heterogeneous
materials. They were well aware that, even if they
could succeed in overthrowing the PALMERSTON
Government, they could not hope to form a dur-
able Ministry from amongst themselves ;
thus the Noble Lord was permitted to retain his
position, not from his own strength, but from the
weakness and disorganisation of his opponents.
Oa fi•ical and financial subjects the session was
a complete blank. The Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, although the War was over, continued all
the War taxes, oppressive and. intolerable as
they were. He adopted no means to bring the
monopoly of the Bank of England to a conclusion,
or to give the notice required to get rid of Vie
incubus that has so long paralysed the industrial
energies of the people, and prevented the develop-
ment of the wonderful natural capabilities of the
country. Sir G. CORNEWALL LEWIS did literally
nothing during the session, and most of his col-
leagues were laboriously helping him in the task.
The whole was, as we have already stated, a sp3-
cimen of busy idleness, unparalleled since the
days of PENELOPE, who at night unravelled the
web constructed during the day.
Measures of Legal Reform were also introduced,
but withdrawn or rejected ; and the chief measure
carried at the close of the session was one for
legalising the simoniacal contract entered into
with two Prelates, who could not save sufficient
for their declining years, although in receipt of
enormous incomes for twenty-eight years and
twenty years respectively, and who were there-
fore obliged to be bought out when no longer
capable of performing their duties.
For one point we return our grateful thanks
to the House of Commons. Notwithstanding the
union of leaders, and the potent influences brought
into operation, they unhesitatingly rejected the
project for burying the national collection of pic-
tures amongst the cabbage gardens of Kensington-
gore, and depriving the people of the use of their
own Gallery, in order to please the Prince Consort
and the aristocratic inhabitants of the favoured
locality. We dwell on this with the greater
pleasure, inasmuch as we have seen but little
else—save the rejection of the Appellate Juris-
diction Bill—of which we can speak with appro-
bation and satisfaction. It is time that the
apathy should at length be shaken off, and that
the successful labours of next Session should make
amends for the scanty performances of that which
this day is brought to a disgraceful conclusion.

A sanguinary ceup d'etat in Spain—an insur-
rectionary movement in Italy—a ripening revolt
in the Caucasus—a spreading discontent among
the vast and down-trodden nationalities grouped
together under the generic title of Panslavism.
Behold the first fruits of this grand and boasted
Pacification ! As to the " conditions" of the
Peace of Paris, they are not one jot less notorious
or less discreditable to its negotiators. Con-
spicuous among those conditions being The
craven reverting for the most part to the actual
condition of things generally quo ante betlum. The
Crimea again the appanage of the Russian Auto•
cracy. Sebastopol again the great maritime
stronghold of the CZAR. Constantinople again
placed in imminent peril of falling at any moment
before a well-timed descent upon its coveted splen-
dours by the barbaric legions of the Read of the
House of ROMANOFF. The Danubian Prin-
cipalities again settling down into the rut
of the old and anomalous Suzerainte, the
dubious character of which has allowed the Hos-
podars of Moldavia and Wallachia to oscillate,
according to the whim of the moment, be-
tween allegiance to the SULTAN of the Osmanli,
and allegiance to the EMPEROR of the Muscovites.
The freedom of navigation upon the waters of the
D inube still in great measure dubious, in spite of
all sorts of ingenious precautions on the part of
our most astute, but at the same time most gul-
lible, Plenipotentiaries. The prestige of Russia
among the Asiatic tribes, still very considerable,
notwithstanding the heroic, rush of the allied
troops up the almost impregnable acclivities of the
Alma—notwithstanding the riving in two of the
grand armies of the CZAR in the valley of Balaklava
by the thunderbolt of the Light Cavalry Charge, di-
rected against the embattled ranks of the foe by the