The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-09 00:00:00

The House then proceeded to ballot for a deputation
of Members to accompany the SrEaaza to the House
of Lords; and shortly afterwards, at the summons of
the Black Rod, the Right Honourable Gentleman, at-
tended by the Members on whom the lot had fallen,
quitted the House and repaired to the House of Peers,
where the ceremonial of the prorogation took place.

The Session has terminated—the Speech has been
delivered—the pageantry has passed away. The
Palace at Westminster will remain closed for some
six months, and the representatives of the people,
having devoted a certain portion of their time to the
onerous duties imposed on them, may now enjoy the
vacation in the manner most suitable to their re-
spective tastes—in yachting, fishing, shooting, hunt-
ing, or any other of the almost endless varieties of
sports and pastimes by which pleasure invites and
rewards her votaries. But if the general
body of Members feel unusual exhiliaration on their
anxiously-desired release—if those who have no sins
of omission, or commission, for which they may be
called to account, who are not bound to maintain
their position, and who have no Ministerial pledges
to redeem, involving the credit of the entire Cabinet,
are carried away by the enthusiasm of the mo-
ment—what must be the sensations of the
PREMIER and his colleagues at their eman-
cipation ? Six months of peace and tranquillity
are before them, during which KEOGEI will be in
Ireland, REYNOLDS forgotten, and " the brigade"
transformed into a respectable body of country gentle-
men, during which the chief occupation of DISRAELI
will be the pouring forth the praises of fat cattle to
the delighted ears of still more pinguose
agriculturists ; JOSEPH HUME will be
quiescent, COBDEN and BRIGHT superintend-
ing the manufacture of cotton yarn, and
CHISHOLM ANSTEY degenerated into a mere lawyer!
Blessed period ! when the golden age will be once
more restored ; when the lion may lay down with the
lamb, and even Sir CHARLES WOOD may retire to
rest without any fear of the incubi that had previously
disturbed his slumbers, when HENRIES, Hula,
BARING, GROSVENOR, NAAS, and a host of others
will no longer haunt the imagination of the con-
science-stricken Minister, and he will have no
" PRECIOUS BUDGET" to explain or atone for, before
he can again seek repose.
It will not, however, be a period of " all play and
no work" to the PREMIER and some of his more effi-
cient coadjutors. The financial Minister may rely
on the apophthegm, " Sufficient for the day is the
evil thereof." He may exult in his success in pre-
venting the publication of the report of the Committee
on the Property and Income-tax ; he may rejoice in
the prolonged respite he has obtained ; but Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, and those who have still some shreds
of repuratioa remaining, must look anxiously forward
to the future, and endeavour to redeem the errors of
the past by performances more wore worthy of their
ancient fame. The speech which they were compelled
to put into the mouth of their Royal Mistress must
have excited the most painful sensations. They were
only enabled to refer to four measures therein, and
for none of these could they claim credit from the
nation.

The first to which they could direct the public
attention was the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption
Bill, the joint production of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir
FREDERICK TRESIQER, and of Messrs. WALPOLE
and KEOGH. On it they sustained some of
the most decisive and ignominious defeats
of the session. They were not even consistent with
themselves. The measure when first introduced to the
legislative notice was very different indeed from what
it became when the second reading Wil moved for,
after it was discovered that the fusion with the
Peelite section, and the acquisition of " new blood,"
was prevented by its stringency. But little re-
mained of the original Bill when brought forward
after the recess occasioned by the Ministerial crisis,
and that little was reduced to homoeopathic dimen-
sions when the Protectionist and Brigade amendments
were adopted. No less than four unequivocal defeats
were sustained in the contests against the ex-kr-
pRNE/-GENERAL, in which the majorities varied
were made
35 to 79, averaging 56 ; and many concessions
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On this,
Royal Speech, it will not appear that Ministers have
had much cause for self-congratulation.
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