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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1845

FURTHER

PROROGATION

OF PARLIAMENT.

At the Privy Council held yesterday at OSBORNE
House, Parliament was further prorogued from
Tuesday next, the sixteenth, to Tuesday, the THIR-
TIETH instant—just one fortnight! From this short
prorogation, it is evident that Ministers are wait-
ing for certain expected contingencies. The
most prominent of these is, no doubt, the ar-
rival of the Speech of the PRESIDENT of the
United States, which may be expected to reach this
country in ten or twelve days—from the 23d to the
25th—Christmas-day. If the tenor of that Speech
he warlike, the Christmas chimes will not sound so
merrily as they were wont.

A prorogation for a fortnight is something very
unusual—it is a sort of from hand to mouth political
expediency. As the emergency presses, the Minister
pauses to see his course more. clearly before he de-
cides, and his caution seems to increase with the
gravity of his position. But that circum-
spection is wise. Precipitantcy too often re-
pents its daring, while sober resolve is fully
prepared to carry out its purpose. It is on this
principle we think that Ministers have delayed the
meeting of Parliament for yet a little longer. Looking
at the members of the Cabinet present at the Council,
it will be seen that they represent every shade of poli-
tical opinion, or party interest, in the present Adminis-
tration. The Duke of WELLINGTON was present,—
even the Iron Duke, whom a Morning Contemporary
whispered as having put his " No !" againstany inter-
ference with the corn-laws ! but which sliding laws
it was said, in The San of yesterday, the Noble
Duke bad DOOMED !! So much for the rumours of
the Clubs. There were also present the Duke of
Buccr.zuctf, Sir ROBERT PEEL, Sir J. GRAHAM, the
Earl of ABERDEEN, Lord STANLEY, Mr. GOULBURN,
the Earl of LINCOLN, and Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT—
in all, nine out of twelve or thirteen composing the
entire Cabinet. From this assemblage we may
readily infer the complexion of the whole.
If the tenor of the American PRESIDENT'S Speech
be aggressive or even ambiguous, Parliament will no
doubt he summoned for the thirteenth or fiteenth of
January; but if Mr. POLK should deem it
more prudent to bide his time, why then Sir
ROBERT PEEL will let the meeting of Parliament
stand over until the 20th or 27th of January, or, it
may be, until the old-fashioned 3d or sth of Fe-
bruary, in order to allow Mr. COBDEN ample time
to clench the repeal of the corn-laws on the classic
b yards of Covent-garden

In the meantime, the landlords will be at work,
urged on by Lordly Dukes and apprehensive mort_

gagors ! The poor, deluded farmers, will be called

on to pelt the PEEL Ministry with diseased potatoes

instead of rotten eggs, and the horrors of approaching

famine will be laid to the account of the Premier's

free-trade in politics, and over-speculation in direct

rail ways !

The reversal by the Judges of the conviction for mar-
drr of the seven Brazilians, tried and sentenced to
death by Ur. Baron PLATT last autumn at Exeter, is
an event which, for many reasons, should not pass viiith-
out public comment.
The chief facts of the case are briefly these. The
Felicidade, a Brazilian schooner, fitted out for the slave- I