The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS•

We publish to day a list of part of the per-
formances which are to take place in the House
of Commons next session. " Further parti-
culars" will, of course, " be announced in future
Bills ;" but, for the present, there are no less
than 134 motions, of which the object is to in-
troduce rather more than 134 new Bills. Let
the King's printer sing for joy, and let men who
buy the statutes at large (properly so called
now at least) put up more capacious bookshelves.
It is not our intention to enlarge upon a subject
which is already fearfully enough extended, but
merely to direct the attention of our readers to a
few of its chief component parts, and so save
them the trouble of wading through the whole.
It will be seen that Mr. O'Connell has a motion
declaratory of the " miseries which the Legisla-
tive Union has produced in Ireland, and of the
inevitable separation of the two countries, which
must result from a perseverance in the Union :"
while Mr. Wilks has a motion "to conso-
solidate and amend the laws relative to
Friendly Societies." Mr. O'Connell, again,
proposes to establish a legislative assembly in
Ireland, and, not content with that, another in
New South Wales. Mr. O'Connell will, of
course, lead the former, and Ikey Solomons,
we suppose, the latter. Mr. Chichester
is to move for leave to bring in a Bill to
limit the duration of Parliaments to five years;
Mr. Wilks to limit them to three years. Col.
Evans has a motion to the same effect as that of
Mr. Wilks. Somebody else will, of course,
move that Parliaments shall be annual ; and
while Mr. Faithful gives notice of a Bill to pre-
vent Members of Parliament being put to any
expense whatever, Mr. Bish embarrasses more
than one of these schemes by a notice for an
Address to the Crown " that Parliament may
occasionally be holden in that part of the united
kingdom called Ireland." Mr. Wilks is to
move for a provision for the moral and religious
education of apprenticed negroes in the West
Indies ; and Mr. Tooke is to bring in a Bill for
the better regulation of chimney sweepers and
their apprentices in this country. Mr. Buck-
ingham is to try to prevent intemperance and
immorality in seaport towns, doubtless by
shutting up grog-shops and shipping off those
unmentionable wicked ones who, as the Rev.
Boatswain Smith once very properly observed,
" go for to shock the sensibilities of the think-
ing sailor." Again, Mr- Buckingham, who
makes a very prominent figure in this " list,"
is to bring in a Bill to diminish the practice of
duelling, by making the survivor of the fight
maintain, as his own, the family or dependents
of the slain, which will, of course, render duel-
ling much too expensive for any but men
of very large fortune ; while, at the same
time, if a poor wretch, with a family,
can only manage to pick a quarrel
with some Crcesus, Mr. Buckingham's Bill will
give him an excellent opportunity of providing
for his children. Mr. Buckingham is also to
submit a scheme for the education of all the
'children in the country out of the funds of the
religious bodies to which their parents belong,
or, if orphans, and destitute children, belonging
to no particular religious community, out of the
funds of the Established Church ; while other
members meditate motions which, if agreed to,
will leave the Church no funds at all. But
these collisions are unavoidable. By the way,
talking of the Church, Mr. Gillon has given
notice of a motion to expel the Bishops from the
House of Lords ; Sir W. Ingilby has a motion
to the same effect, and so has Mr. Rippon ;
while Mr. Pryme proposes to bring back the
inferior clergy into the House of Commons.
Colonel Williams gives notice of a Bill to reform
the whole Church of England and Ireland ; Mr.
Faithfull will bring in " a Bill to regulate and
render more equal the incomes of the Bishops
and Clergy of the Established Church ;" and
Colonel Butler is to have a Committee to see
whether the Irish Church cannot do without
Althea altogether, while Mr. Barron sets up
an opposition Committee to inquire whether
the tripartite distribution of Irish tithes
among the poor, the clergy, and the schoolmas-
ter, ought not to be reverted to. W ith regard
to taxes, it would seem that the motions of
Mr. Robinson, General Palmer, and Mr. Buck-
ingham, are intended to take of all existing
imposts " at one fell swoop," so that there was
no occasion for the motions of other Hon

Members which regard mere trifles in the cata-
logue of taxation. Such, for instance, are the
motions for the repeal of the house and window
tax by Sir S. Whalley ; of the duties on coals
by Mr. Pease ; of the duties on bricks by the
same Hon. Member ; of the malt tax by Sir W.
Ingilby ; of the corn laws by Mr. Fryer; of the
stamp duties on newspapers by Mr. E. L. Bill-
vier ; and the abolition of church rates by Mr.
Divett, Of course it would be premature to
give any opinion upon these subjects now : and
it is fbr that reason we abstain from noticing
other motions which stand on the list, or men-
tioning the names of the Hon. Members who
I ave undertaken to bring them forward. It
would, however, be worse than injustice if we
hesitated to call attention to the fact, that of all

our legislators, Mr. Rotch seems to have mea-
sured his capabilities most accurately when he
gave notice of a motion for a bill " to improve
the administration of the criminal law in the

county of Middlesex." When a bill from such
quarter shall have passed into a law, we shall, of

course, never again hear of special commissions
Lo remedy " the mistake."—Times.

Our evening contemporary the Standard has
recovered its urbanity and liberality ; and as it
concedes that Tories, as well as 'Whigs, deserve
punishment when convicted of bribery, treat-
ing, and political coercion of the constituency,
we cheerfully terminate the controversy on the
conduct of the Earl of Warwick till the publi-
cation of the evidence reported by the Warwick
Committee, when we shad recal public attention
to the scandalous acts of his Lordship's agents
and partisans—en-powdered by his pecuniary
and other resources to corrupt the electors of
" his borough." We freely and fully admit, in
fhe -z-,!iguage of the Standard, that " bribery,
all attendants, perjury and subornation,"
were equally immoral and destructive when per-
petrated by Whigs before the Reform Bills, as
~vhen indulged in by to Conservatives after the
amendment of the rep:re-Imitation. There is

only this simple difference--I:cat the Whig;
originated and triumphantly carried the great Mi-
nisterial measure of Parliamentary Reform, raid
that a Reformed House of Commons has the
will to detect and the power to punish political
corruption. We also thank our ingenuous
contemporary for the valuable and singular ad,
mission that there are such nuisances as " cor-
rupt corporations." We do not presume to
comment on his vindication of his own impar-
tial conduct ; the conscience of every journalist
is in his own independent keeping, and we are
satisfied that Toryism, alias " Conservatism,"
is on the wane. When election corruption and