The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY. AUGUST 25, 1845.

In all the delinquencies of Parliament at the approaching
close of a session, there is nothing so shocking as the steam-
power haste with which (the legislators being resolutely
fixed on the day fur leaving the scene of their duties) the
arrear products of legislation are consigned to the limbo of
unfinished Bills and embryo motions and measures. Bills
for the protection of partridges or the punishment of
paupers ; for the creation of new channels of legal
patronage, or for defrauding the poor of their rights
of common and waste ; for extending, beyond all
principles recognised by the common law or the Constitu-
tion the powers of the creditor to inflict the most merciless
visitation on any debtor to him, under judgment, in a
sum not exceeding 20/. ; or for arbitrarily interfering with
the representative tf capital and with its employment—
these, indeed, are carefully exempted from this unceremo-
nious handling. One would suppose that the Premier could
mot sleep soundly in his bed, during the recess, without, in
the first place, disburdening his conscience of the duty
of previously seeing every objectionable or oppres—
sive measure conducted through all its stages to
the effective maturity of a statute. When the Earl
of LINCOLN, with Lord WORSLEY'S assistance, has
fenced out, warned off, and thrust back the hardy but poor
yeomanry—the laborious but vulgar peasantry of England
and Welesthe ever-toiling but ill-clothed and worse-fed
artisans of our manufacturing districts-”-from ail the
healthful fields of exercise and relaxation that yet re-
mained to them in the- wild commons' and healthful
waste-lands of their native country ; lie can rush
doWn by rail or steam-boat to the moors of the far north.
Si' ,TAstEs GRAHAM, after breaking open the letters of
11....11AzzLer, libelling-his character, and then discovering
" that he believes he meat have been 'mistaken" in the ter-,
rible imputations that he had thus Cast on a foreigner, to
whore tlici State had accorded the protection of ite'sairctuary;
after "running-amuck" against all the " general practitioners'
of the medical profession ; and replying to communications
touching the disgusting mismanagement of paupers in
union houses (to the unirnagired atrocities of which every
day has since supplied fresh evidence), by vague and worth-
less protestations of his own incredulity on the subject,—Sir
JAMES likewise, in his impatience " to be off," throws
overboard all his pledges on matters of poor-law
amendment, the improved sanatory condition of towns,
Ac. &c. The grouse of Cumberland are still better
flavoured than those of Inverness-shire, and the sport
is little inferior. So this Lord of Netherby hastens from the
haunting appeals of poor-law misery, and of dear connexions I
unto*ardly mixed up with sorry explanations about
the buyiiig and selling of railway shares. The Premier.
having been again beaten off in his attempt to strangle
the monetary.. system of Scotland, from which she has
imbibed !be energy and buoyancy that have' sustained her
for a century and a half, advancing her by slow, but always
established, steps from one stage of political strength and
improvement to another, contents himself with deter-
mining to complete fur that kingdom next year the same

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