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London, England, 1835-03-03 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1335.

The Parliamentary proceedings of last night are not
without interest. In the House of Lords the Mar-
quis of WESTMINSTER, after stating that " under the
extraordinary circumstances in which they were now
placed," he did not deem it necessary to bring forward his
promised motion to abolish voting by proxy in a legis-
lative,
and quasi deliberative, assembly, alluded to the
emancipation of-the Jews, and remarked that he was
ready to make the motion on that subject, of which he
had given notice, whenever those who were more
immediately interested should express a wish to that
effect. We are sure the Jews will not be slow to take the
hint. The Noble Marquis then proceeded to ask
what the Government meant to do with respect to
pluralities and non-residence, and corrupt voting at
elections?--for which last evil he seemed to think the
Ballot was the only remedy. The Noble Mar-
quis also recommended the removal of the Bi-
shops from the House of Lords, and their re-
lief from all secular duties, in order that their
minds may be wholly devoted to the important duties
of their sacred office—a recommendation in which we
most cordially concur. Lord WIIARNCLIFFE thought
it very " inconvenient " to answer such questions with-
out regular notice, and the Duke of RICHMOND
proved the necessity of the Bishops haying seats in the
House, by the fact that he had appointed no less than
half-a-dozen of them on a Committee, moved for by
him the other night, for inquiring into the propriety of
abolishing useless oaths. What peculiar services the
Lords Spiritual are qualified to render to such a Com-
mittee, it would puzzle an ordinary understanding to
find out. If the oaths are useless, it surely
does not require the sanction or authority of the Right
Rev. Bench that they should be abolished, and if the
question be whether they are, or are not, useless, then
it seems more proper for the decision of the Judges
than of the Bishops.

In the Commons the usual routine vote of thanks to
his MAJESTY for his answer to the amended Address,
was moved by Sir ROBERT PEEL, and agreed to. A
Select Committee was then appointed to consider the
subject of the erection of a new House of Commons
on the old site.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. HUNIE gave the
Ministers some home thrusts on their pertinacious ad-
hesion to place, after the repeated verdicts given against
them on their trial.by the representatives of the people.
The Right Hon. Baronet parried these thrusts with his
usual dexterity, and all that could be screwed out of
him was, that he did not consider the vote on the
Amendment a vote of confidence ; but, nevertheless,
he did not think that it said exactly, " You had better
be off ;" and we are left to believe, that until some
such gentle admonition is given by the House of Com-
mons, the Ministers do not mean to budge.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, conceiving that the
KING'S answer to the Address was sufficiently ex-
plicit as _to the intentions of Ministers not to resort to
a second dissolution, did not put any questions on that
subject to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
Mr. O'CONNELL extorted from the Right Hon.
Baronet an explicit declaration that, in his Irish
Church Reform, he would not consent to the appro-
priation of any ecclesiastical property but to ecclesias-

tical purposes, and that by " ecclesiastical purposes"
he meant " purposes connected with the doctrines of
the Established Church."
We are happy to find that Mr. BERNAL was elected
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means on
the motion of the Premier, who paid him some high
and justly-merited compliments. There is great ad-
vantage (when the trick is adroitly performed) in
making a merit of necessity.

The moral influence put forth by the Liberals during

the late struggle in the House of Commons, is not the
least important part of the triumph which they ob-
tained. To any one who has perused the debates, the
immeasurable superiority of the speeches of the Re-
formers, in point of principle and intelligence, to the
orations of either the Tories or the Neutrals, must
have been strikingly conspicuous. The Reformers
have given most cogent reasons for the faith that is
within them ; and, by their arguments, nobly refuted
the calumny of factiousness by which their adversaries
sought to asperse them. There is no one sentence in
any speech proceeding from the opposition that admits
of a destructive interpretation, not one expression of a
violent, far less of an inflammatory character, through-
out the whole course of a discussion unsurpassed for
energy and animation ; indeed the only intemperance
displayed proceeded from a member of the Tory ranks,
who, in his Conservative charity, desired to send
Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his tag-rag-and-bobtail
crew to supper with the ancient gentleman in sables
below. The sagacity, temper and discretion exhibited
by the Reformers are a gratifying assurance to the
nation that a " reign of terror" is not necessarily to
follow upon the expulsion of the present Ministers ;
but rather, that a Government can, and will, be con-
structed which shall introduce measures of reform in
the true spirit and principle of its popular signification
—sound, efficient, and safe.

Already have appeared significant symptoms of
ratting. A Morning print in the interest of Govern-
ment, which hailed in terms of unqualified praise the
matter of the/KING's Speech, and the running com-
mentary thereon of Sir ROBERT PEEL, has suddenly
discovered that enough has not been promised ; that
the people have a well-grounded right to expect more,
and more specifically declared pledges, and that more
accordingly they must have. The value of this dis-
covery, as the fore-running shadow of a coming event,
the public will not be slow in understanding. The
Tories have been heartily thrashed, and they writhe
under the infliction; they cannot carry on the KING'S
Government, and they know it. They know more-
over that they must give way : the pressure from with-
out is too strong for them, and they see the inevitable
crush that threatens their destruction.

If any thing were wanting to make manifest to the
country the real spirit of Toryism, the answer received
by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, after the declaration of the
majority, need only be referred to. The Government,
at the close of a three days' debate on a vital question,
and signally out-voted, took time to consider whether,
by a side blow, it would not attempt to subvert the de-
cision the House had come to I The question showed
the goodness of Lord JOHN'S tactics, and his just ap-
preciation of Tory principles ; whether the answer
gave token of a high and lofty minded Government,
submissive to public opinion, and regardful at once of
public peace and private reputation, we shall not make
it our business to enquire.

In whatever way the present struggle between the
Liberal and Conservative parties in the House of
Commons terminate, we trust that as soon as it is
fairly over, and the business of the State properly
entered upon, no further impediments will be thrown
in the way of those measures which the country has a
a right to expect from a Reformed Parliament. Much
remains to be done before the people can be either
contented or tranquillized ; and it is morally impossible
to do anything, if the whole time of the Legisla-
ture is to be frittered away in listening to crude
frothy harangues —in settling personal quarrels
among the Members—and what is still worse, if the
House of Commons itself is' to be turned into
an arena for the indulgence of chattering cox-
combry, imbecile egotism, and judicial vituperation. •
We entertain the highest esteem and the most pro-
found veneration for the Representatives of the people
of the United Kingdom—as a body we know they are
unequalled in the world—but we have had sufficient
experience of their general proceedings, to be aware
that they are woefully deficient in any fixed aim, or
proper method, of discharging the functions entrusted
to them. And how can it be otherwise when every
Member of the House is ambitious of being an orator
—the mover of some two or three dozen of motions
in a single session—and the author of half as many ill-
digested Bills, which are no sooner passed than the
country pours in petitions for their repeal--not
on account of their principles, but their crudities
and inconsistencies ? Mark the general conduct
of the house even when the most important question
is before it. An Honourable Member makes a mo-
tion which gives him the right to reply ; and having
concluded his speech, walks out, to prepare himself
for a second display at the wind-up of the business.
The majority follow his example, it being of no im-
portance who are present, provided there is an orator
in expectancy ready to start upon his legs when an op-
portunity presents itself. From this it has happened
that debates have been continued for several hours, the
last speaker only entering the House as his prede-
cessor made his retiring bow to the Chair. Here then
was presented the anomaly of speeches being delivered
on both sides of a question in answer to others which were
not heard—and if heard would not have been attended
to ; the fact being that each orator had certain opi-
nions to express—certain elegancies to utter—certain
arguments to make use of, which he judged would
make an excellent appearance in the public journals,
and place his name among the greatest men of the age.
Each talked not to convince others of the correctness
of his views, but to astonish his enemies and delight his
friends out of doors ; and the listeners were chiefly
attentive, as the most effectual way of securing an early
and a patient hearing for themselves.
The country must not permit the continuance of
such a system of conducting public business as this ;
and it is the duty of the legislature to devise
some means of even partially remedying it. It
were, moreover, of the greatest importance that
each Member of Parliament on entering the
House, would bethink himself what questions he
really understands—for what evils he can suggest a
practicable remedy—what laws press with undue
severity on certain classes of the people—what taxes
can be repealed or reduced without an injurious dimi-
nution of the public revenue—what branches of in-
dustry are most worthy of encouragement ; and having
settled these things to his own satisfaction, henceforth