The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-08 00:00:00

PARLIAMEN TARY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
The undernamed Bills are appointed to be read a second
time on Monday, March 10:—
Buckingham. Breckley, and Banbury Turnpike Road.
Caledonian Railway (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge
Pollee and Govan, &c., Railways—Amendment and Con
tinuation. &c. )
Cork and Waterford Railway.
Lincolnshire Estuary.
Mayfield Railway.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway.
Towcester, Brackley, and Weston-on-the-Green Turnpike
Road.
Waterford and Tramore Railway.
Wexford Free Bridge Amendment.
Buckingham's Compensation.
Second readings for Tuesday, March 11:
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Fifth Shares).
Smithfield Enlargement.

BUSINESS OF THE SESSION.
(From the Times.)
Lest the public should really take up the idea that time
is standing still, we beg to remind them that this is the Bth
of March. Let that be borne in mind. Last night, then, at
this advanced period of the year, the Parliamentary session
was opened once more—for the third time. As the porticos
of the Exhibition are already yawning for their two million
visitors, and Regent-street is already filling, we may be par-
doned an anxious inspection- of the third Ministerial pro •
granune. Next Monday we are to have the Committee on
Navy Estimates. The second reading of the Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill is fixed for next Friday, the 14th, with the fervent
hope that objectors will be so kind as to let the Bill be read
a second time, and allow the House to go into Committee at
u early day. Haley are not so kind so much the worse for
the House. On Friday, the 2 tst, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer is once more to operate on his unfortunate surplus.
On Monday, the 24th, a vote will be asked fur on account of
the Income-tax. Should any of these questions be debated,
and the settlement further delayed, April will come on
us unawares. The Easter holydays will make a great
hole in that month, and then we conic to the long-expected
Ist or May. Here's a look-out for a business-like nation !
Lord John Russell must be dreaming that he is a shepherd on
Salisbury Plain, carving quaint dials, and notching a calen-
dar on a walking- stick. What hope is left that anything
will be done in the year 1851? We are ready to back time
against Government, and to predict that the session will be
utterly abortive. Lord John summoned his supporters the
other day, and asked for their confidence. _ His next vote.

however, must not be a vote of confidence, but a vote of pa-
tience, a vote of indulgence, a vote of resignation. His
Lordship will have to fall on his knees and supplicate the
Public, " Have patience with me, and I will pay the all."
Phis, of course, is not a triumphant or an agreeable act.
Caesar conquered the world by always beating time. He
presented himself everywhere ante expectatein diem. On the
contrary, it is incompetency and defeat that ask for delay,
from the schoolboy who cannot say his repetition, and the
spendthrift who cannot pay his debts, to the convict who
vainly hoped for a respite of his doom.
What is to be done? If a Government could exist with-
out measures and without money, the present Cabinet might
remain on sufferance, but the forms of the British Constitu-
tion do not allow of a King Log. In the present state of
affairs there are people who would think it no very serious
misfortune or impropriety if the supplies were granted at
once, and legislation suspended for this year; but there are
others not of this mind, and Lord John Russell's own sup-
porters would be the last to let him off. There is the im-
placable and unpitying Mr. Locke King, the second reading
of whose Bill now stands for April 2. sMr. Disraeli, who is
not embarrassed with any plan of his own, is all the more
ready to watch opportunities. The Roman Catholics will
keep up their grievance to long as they have a bone of
contention, though it be nothing but a bone. Besides
Parliamentary reformers, and financial Is reformers, there
are also colonial reformers, who have just had
the windfall of another Kafir war. All these parties will
make play just as usual, and when they can do it with de-
cency, will assist one another. It's all very well indeed for
the Duke to advise the Queen to put Lord John Russell once
more on his legs, and for her Majesty to act on his advice, but
the independent Members of the House of Commons will not
give up their opinions, or their hobbies, merely because Go=
vernment can produce the testimonial of its own Commander-
in-Chief. All these assailants are anxiously looking for a
joint in the Ministerial harness, and when the mere prelimi-
naries of the session are tediously diffused over the whole
month of March there will be joints wide enough for the
clumsiest bowman to send his shafts through. Supposing,
what is now highly probable, that nothing is done before
Easter, we undertake to say that Parliament will then meet
with the impression that the Government of the country is
put up to the highest bidder, and that anybody
ac-
cepted who is likely to do something.
The history of the session so far augurs ill of all business
whatever, particularly of the promised reform of the Chand-
will be
cery. Abuses that have been centuries growinga tuop'an clear
arrears that even centuries, as it seems,
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greeunfortunatelyaob)s'aya seems
away, are not likely to be dealt with to awli:u;
by a Parliament which has already
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has still to begin in good and
full and satisfactory series of announce-
ments
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Minister who is only tolerated,
the ould have suggested idea that Minis-
terslease of their power, that the Titan had
had a new
his mother earth and repairedlastnight
his losses. As it is,
touched
the exhibition only served to assure the audience of the un-
broken identity of the Cabinet. It was quulis ub incept°, and
the presumption is that it will proceed to the end in much the
same fashion. With such a prospect before us, it is natu-
ral to ask what our confidence or our patience is asked for.
We don't confide in a person so much as in a course of ac-
ctaionns:e
wanedthwienkchonefiwdiell do inomneorepegrosoodn.
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there than
wereanother n
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in Parliament of statesman-like views,-
energeticin
habits,
Lord
John, then
that o fcourse we might have this confi-
dence wesuch
despaired
questionably there are Members of both Houses who come up
to this description, and from
per sounds
oofn
saibtpe ritsitnenrcoi;:leasybut
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nt o-
withdraw our natural confidence, and rest it on a statue of
political virtue, or on the hereditary glories of the noble
house of Russell. What avails it to be told that his Lord-
ship has been brought up in the straightest sect of the Whigs,
at the feet
Of MackintOsh , Romilly , and Horner? What
avails it that he has always kept the very best of company,
and acted only with men as good as himself? The public
will begin to get tired of good boys. It will ask for some-
thing more lively, and more adapted to the wants of this
moving world. It may not be right, and may ultimately
repent of its choice ; but the British people expect prompt,
itue party if they cannot get it from another.
decisive, and vigorous government, and wilt Lecei t it from

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