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LONDON, THUIZSaAY, JANUARY 31, 1856,

Never was the assembling of Parliament more
opportune than at this moment. Questions of
deep, almost of vital, importance are under dis-
cussion, and it is indeed fortunate that the chosen
Representatives of the People will have so auspici-
ous an opprittunity of expressing their opinions
and those of the parties through whose favour
they are invested with the honourable and
arduous cbity. It might have happened
all-irnpoe,ant negotiations would occur d
that the
during the
recess, .or at such a distance that they could
only ,condemn arrangements, that
had
itnpro' iid ently entered into that allee,
could. have effected they
d. would be expressed by the
adage of "Shutting the stable door
aft er the steed had been stolen." But happily
V.lis is not the case in the present instance. The
"liaht cloud " has not as yet passed from the
face of the moon, and there is abundant time to
prevent arrangements that might entail very
serious consequences on the nation.

It is an old Ministerial trick, one that we have
repeatedly and unsparingly exposed, to assert that
any inquiries are premature until every arrange_
merit has been completed, and the matter has
been accomplished. Then it is too late to express
an opinion ! Parliament must be contented to
sanction that which is irrevocable. It may be very
convenient for Ministers if they can induce
either branch of the Legislature thus to abdicate
its functions, and to be satisfied with merely re-
oistering the decrees of the Government.
This would unquestionably be in accordance with
the German models set np for English imitation ;
but it is not congenial to the British Constitution,

THE SPECTATOR'S MONTHLY SURPLE- for which eur progenitors have so often struggled,
MENT. to accompany the Paper of the week ending Saturday
February 2, will contain —Political Statistics :—The House of Com- and which they sustained under the most adverse
rEnleuctioant thPaOritYenV
ogtezof.thet ScoesasoionaniTaThlnagtlsst2c.e tpaedesas t
sGheonwer al
circumstances.ing Any plea of "convenience" should
the state of the London Joint-Stock Banks, the Banks in Victoria,
the Progress of Canada from 1800 to 1854—Agricultural Statistics of be promptly and decisively repelled by those who,
r rottl9at
,cciruslicBs.s. In addition to the Reviews of new Books, Fine for the time being, should be the faithful and
Advertisements should be sent to the Publishing-office on or
before Thursday evening, vigilant guardians of popular rights and privi-
leges. There should be neither a civil nor a
military armistice until a final and satisfactory
peace—if that be possible had been con-
cluded. Until that event it will be not only
the privilege and the duty of every member to
elicit complete information on every point, but to
prevent, to the best of his abilities, any result
which he may consider injurious either to the
honour or the interests of their country.
We are told by a morning contemporary that
Honourable Gentlemen should " refrain from
thwarting in London what is doing in Paris,"
from " carrying the spirit of free discussion into
regions where foi a time, at least, the public in-
terest imperatively requires that they should not
penetrate." We earnestly and emphatically pro-
test against this slavish doctrine, which may be
suited for a despotic clime, but not for the British
atmosphere. So far from freedom of speech and
of action being injurious under existing circum-
stances, it offers the only prospect of escaping
creditably from the serious difficulty in
which we are involved. Let the voice of popular
opinion be audibly proclaimed in the Imperial
Palace of Westminster, and it will reverberate
through all the Cabinets of Europe and of the
world, and secure for Great Britain the respect
which is not now obtained. Our Transatlantic
brethren do not allow themselves to be thus
gagged, and their freedom of speech does not lead
to any untoward consequences ; on the contrary,
it insures the objects which they wish to have
effected. It abates what may be termed social
nuisances, the sinister intrigues which irresponsible
parties may be disposed to carry on for their own
priiate purposess but not for the benefit of the
community. If any objection be raised, the
answer is ready:—We are free-born Englishmen,
not Russian or German s3rfs ; we are governed
for our own betiefit, not for that of foreign rela-
tions 1 We wish to follow the example of "Uncle
SAM" rather than of "Uncle LEOPOLD." It may
be very well to ask for "generous forbearance ;"
but our reptesentatives must be far more simple
than their .orinstituents bargained for if they evince
it in a maqter in which the safety, honour, and
welfare of 'their SOVEREION and her people are so
deeply sta:ed, as in the forthcoming negotiations,

Great is JOHN BRIGHT of Manchester ! But
greater, in our opinion, are'the people of England,
and b(itween the two we must all make choice.
We have long made ours, and cannot repent of
it. 'lf, however, we are, as Mr. BRIGHT declares,
but. gone of the modern four hundred lying pro-
Phu is who are the veritable autitypes of those who,
at 'SATAN'S instigation, counselled AHAB to go up
tv, Ramoth Gilead to battle, of course it were vain
b o expect repentance of such judicially-hardened
F ;inners. Mr. BRIGHT must be thankful that he
tenders his advice to no Eastern despot, other-
wise, since he claims, in contrast to the lying
Press, to represent in his own person the faithful
" MICAIAII, the son of Radar," he would surely
have been fed, like a faithful prophet, " with the
bread and water of affliction." His only affliction
now has been—political insignificance. Afflictive
diet this, no doubt, for an eloquent Leaguer ;
it has obviously been rather difficult of
digestion, and may account for his sending the
whole Press of England literally to the —, (but
we refrain from quoting too closely.) Some
people may presume to question whether Micaiah,
the Member for Manchester, had enjoyed any
such special revelat'on as that vouchsafed to the
Hebrew prophet ; no such doubt crosses his mind.
He has lifted up his eyes, and behold he sees the
lying spirit inspiring all the journals, and all the
tsliabitants of England scattered on the moun-
tains as sheep having no shepherd. Rumour
speaks of a Manchester penny journal to be pub-
lished in London, which is even to eject the
Times from its throne. As it is designed to con-
front and rebuke the universally lying papers, we
should suggest that its Manchester godfathers bap-
tise it after their Member by the name of "MICAIAH ;
or, the Lying Prophets Rebuked. Price ld."
The Peelites and the Society of Friends will take
some thousands daily fur gratuitous distribution.
It were wearisome work to debate the question
with our MICAIAH whether our utterancestave
all been wrong and his alone right. We cannot
feel much interest in convicting him of error when
none of our readers believe him. We can all
stand and listen to the rushing torrent of his peculiar
eloquence with interest, but it dashes by, and all is
over. It has modified no conviction. We perceive
that the speaker could, had his passions been en-
listed on the oth©r side, been equally fluent and
vehement. One instance of his violation of all fair-
ness may be sufficient. He laboured to show that
the present Five Points were no advance on the
Four Points of last year. Now we have our.
selves been ready enough to expose their insuffi-
ciency, and to show howmiserably they fall short
of our fair demands, even in the present position
of things. Yet even we have never denied that the
difference is substantial and great ; if carried
out honestly very great. If the Black Sea ports
are dismantled, if Nicolaieff follow Sebastopol as
a naval arsenal, if a fleet of frigates be reduced
to a few light vessels for each Power, if the Aland
Isles be neutralised, these things, added to the
cession of Bessarabia and the Swedish Treaty, are
surely a very different thing to the Four Points of
last year. They include, moreover, the great
difference that Russia is now compelled to confess
defeat. Before the fall of Sebastopol GORTSCHAKOFF
wrote " our fortifications suffer"--and before the
Conferences the EMPEROR'S journal wrote officially,
that the " threatening aspect of the coalition,"
and the "sacrifices which continuance of the War
will impose on Russia," are her reasons for not
delaying to accede to the proposed terms. isTo
dissatisfaction with the terms will prevent honest
men from perceiving that the difference is great.
Mr. BRIGHT'S lengthy illustrations of the cost
and the miseries of the War were effectually
answered by General TlioarPsoN, who avowed that
he did "like to see something like a general
police in Europe, which should do as we did when
down, not
we heard of thieves in Market-street, put them
saying that because we lived in St.
Ann's-squareWehad nothing to do with the
matter." The question
one of whether to of war was simply the
mitorial burglary should con-
tinue to be the con rse of Russia, or should cease for
ever in Europe. With much said at the meet-
ing on the mismaregement of the War, and the
base counsels which attacked the Crimea only, in-
stead of Poland also, we, of course, heartilyconcnr.
We believe the cNief reason why peace is now
clutched at by 011 the Statesmen of the
occasion, is
their fears lest another
campaign must bring them into Poland ; and
then the dirty in• terests of Germany in Polish
slavery would, 0.1 7 eourse, be touched. We have
but too often hat Ito insist on the reluctance of
our statesmen to , aim at noble soul-stirring ob-
jects in the pre!. ent War, but we do not on that
account think a 4 we have done thrown away.

Russia has received a military check which will
surely curb her ambition in that line for long to
come; and there is much reason to hope that the
tens of thousands of her martyred serfs are *liar-
'tyrs not only to the madness of their CZA.R, but
to the future commercial civilisation of their
country. Thrown upon the course of internal
improvement by the rebuke of this War, Russia
may become deeply pledged to peace as the
largest exporting country for raw material of
Europe.

The Manchester and Reelite party are no doubt
well pleased to enter on a peace-making rather
than a war sessions of Parliament. We shall have
them furious with our Cabinet for every- firm de-
mand. They will lament over every port and
arsenal which Russia is called on to demolisb.—
over every efficient guarantee required of her.
They will probably cabal to overturn Lord PAL-
MERSTON'S Cabinet if it first makes the best peace
attainable with the present preliminaries, and then
watches sedulously that they are complied with to
the letter. There is one motion, however, which Mr.
BRIGHT ough t himself to bring forward at the earliest
period. He entertained his audience on Monday
with the whole history of the rise and progress of
our National Debt, compared it with the trivial
one of the United States (only omitting the nu-
merous heavy debts of the several Sovereign
States), and predicted the sad consequences of
the addition of 100,000,0001. more to ours. If
he be honest, let him then move " that an address
be presented to her MAJESTY, informing her that
no peace will be acceptable to this country which
does not include the repayment by Russia of th•
entire expenses of the War."

" The loss of Calais will be found engraven on
my heart." The language of an English Queen,
to whom, among other possessions of her royal
sires, the custody of that English stronghold in
France had descended by inheritance. " The
loss of Calais will be found engraven on my heart."
With such bitter royalty of feeling did she regard
that apparently disastrous event. It was a wo-
manly sentiment the words conveyed ; for the
speaker was of the right royal race of the TUDORS.
What will history have to record of the fall of
Kars ?

The loss over which she pondered, it is true,
was the loss of part of her inheritance ; but the
grief that weighed at her heart was for her sul-
lied renown. Kars never formed a part of the
British territories ; but it was the key of the
finest possessions of our Ally the Turk, and he
had confided the vindication of his rights and the
safety of his territories to the direction of his
Allies, and they suffered him to lose so important
a stronghold. How bitterly he may ponder over
the event, we are unable to say, but the fall of
Calais was not more disgraceful to the royal
Tudor than the fall of Kars is to the Allies, and
more especially the British Government.
Into the secrets of royalty we have little desire
to penetrate, but we make bold to say that the
British nation is stirred to its depths by that
crowning disaster of the War, and chafes with
universal bitterness of feeling over it. Hitherto
Her Majesty the QUEEN has been celebrated for
her sympathy with her people, and in the insti-
tution and vigorous prosecution of a real and not
sham inquiry into the fall of Kars, we are pre-
pared to recognise an equal share on her part in
their present regrets, and resolution to have the
secret causes of the disaster anatomised, and ren-
dered palpable to observation.
As we all but too well know the prosecution of
the War, if prosecution it can be called, had won
us little honour, though it had cost us much
treasure and blood. The dread artillery of our
fleets, before one-half of which in olden times all
oven es f inn J. 00:1 lied, had been paraded
almost as innocuously as a "raw head" before the
unintimidated. foe. The inadequacy of our
preparation to meet assault, and the rottenness of
our military system, had been laid bare to the
whole world. We had struck up an alliance with
an old enemy—our enemy, we trust, no longer—
as it were but to show him what a bugbear it was
that France had held in awe. Our commanders
had demonstrated their utter want of scientific
generalship, and our Statesmen, up to the advent
of the present Premier, the shallowness of their
heads the hollowness of their hearts, and the
wanton exaction of their hands. Sinope grimly
upbraided our supineness. Odessa stood a monu-
ment of our folly. Inkerman glowed with the
needlessly spilt blood of our heroes. The exhala-
tions of thousands of our gallant dead rose dreadly
before Sebastopol ; and the curses of the Princi-
palities thronged in our ears. The tribes of the
Caucasus waxed impatient for the kicking of the
beam. Persia was quick with treachery, and the
naval powers of the North looked on for
an oppottunity to strike home at our
foe. Nothing but one-half of Sebastopol, a
few easy captures, the proved devotion of our men,
soldiers and sailors, testified to our present great-
ness as an offensive Power, and but hurried prepara-
tions, whatever their magnitude, to the immensity
of our resources, when the defence of Kars be-
came the theme of every tongue—a defence glo-
riously conducted by one of our countrymen in
the teeth of every conceivable obstacle, and in
which he had received no aid, though he had
eagerly sought for it. But little exertion was re-
quired. An efficient force could have been sent
to raise the siege and relieve the exhausted
strength of its half-starved defenders ; but none
was sent, and Kars fell, a prey to famine rather
than the sword, laying open Syria itself to the
march of the Muscovite invader, and avenging
the ruins of Sebastopol. The nation may be ex-
cused for having entertained the strongest desire
for the rescue of Kars on all conceivable grounds,
and for being sorely disappointed and ag-
grieved by its fall. Surely it has a right to be
informed of " the reason why," and resolutely to
insist on being so. Right or not, it will.

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

It is said that Mr. Roebuck will move an amend-
ment to the Address.
The rumour of the intention of Ministers to ad-
journ Parliament for a fortnight is without any
foundation.—Post.

law in Great Britain and in Ireland will be pro\
posed to you, which will, I doubt not, receive)
your attentive consideration.

Upon these and all other matters upon which
you may deliberate, I fervently pray that the
blessing of Divine Providence may favour your
councils, and guide them to the promotion of the
great object of my nnvariing solicitude, the wel-
fare and the happiness of my people.
At the conclusion of the reading of the Speech
her Majesty and suite left the house.

Their Lordships then adjourned till five
o'clock.

HOUSE OP COMMONS.—(This Day.)
The Speaker entered the House, attended by
the officials, and took the chair at half-past one.
Shortly after that hour the Deputy-Usher of
the Black Rod appeared at the bar, and sum-
moned the members to the House of Lords to
hear her Majesty's most gracious Speech from the
Throne.

The Speaker, in obedience to the command,
left the chair, and, attended by nearly all the
members present, proceeded to the bar of the
House of Lords.

After an absence of about ten minutes the
Speaker returned, and again resumed the chair.
The House then adjourned till a quarter
before four o'clock.