The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-04-09 00:00:00

(FROM'THE AGE.)

Parliament I—God bless it I—has taken holidays unto
itself, and we are to be deprived of the pleasure of its
agreeable company for another week. We must endea-
vour to live under the affliction.
It has carried one measure in more than two months ;
and that has been so completely mangled and bungled
during its progress through the house, that its

"Mother would not know its child."

Nothing else whatever has it done, except prate, prate,
prate—in which accomplishment, indeed, it surpassed any
other assembly on record. We suppose it will just be as
industrious when it comes back to us again.
Croker, in a very clever and smart article in the Quar-
terly just published, has a sharp analysis of this Par-
liament.—The most common observation," says the
Ex-Secretary, " that we hear in every society, and read
in every journal, is, that the Reform Bill has disap-
pointed everybody. Yet we believe that the truth is,
that the Reform Bill has disappointed nobody. Sure
we are, it has not disappointed us. The new Parlia-
ment is composed, and is working, exactly as all the
leaders of the conservative party—and as we, humble fol-
lowers in that honourable train, predicted; and the
avowed partisans of the bill, who so loudly complain that
they have been disappointed, make theolight mistake of
-confounding their premises with their prognostics." He
proceeds then to prove, that " the Whigs or Ministerial-
ists, with purblind selfishness,W
believed that it would en-
able them to plunder the Tories of politica.' power, and to
continue themselves in office for a session or two—and
they have not been disappointed; the longer-sig-hted,Ra-
dicals saw that, by playing the temporary game of the
Whigs, they were laying the foundations of their own not
distant supremacy, and that the first step towards a-uorn-
plete dernocratical revolution was, to have a House of
Commons whichshould bring itself into contempt, and all
old and constituted authorities into odium and peril—and
have they been disappointed ?"

We shall answer—they have not. The Whig House
of Commons is the most thoroughly despised House
that ever sat in St. Stephen's; and, to use the words of
Sir John Cam Hobhouse, " it would-be felt as a sort of
national triumph, if they were to be taken by the ears
and thrown into the Thames." This was said when Sir
John was a flaming patriot—an annual speaker against
flogging—a deeply sympathizing sniveller over the me-
lancholy misfortunes of the harassed Hibernians, kept
down by harsh laws, prohibiting murder and other fro-
lics of the same kind—An 'short, When Mr, Hobhouse had
no idea that he was to scale the treasury bench, and
pocket six or seven, thousand a year at the easy price of
unsaying in office all he had ever said out of it.

The Working cf this Reformed Parliament has shown
to the people, that all the fine things that were promised
them were merely thrown out in delusion. The distress
of the country was forced—absolutely forced by Attwood,
on the House, almost in the teeth of its forms—it was
met by the previous question. The horrors of the fac-
tory system are not to be abated. No !—the Refortned
Parliament has granted the mill-owners tithe to collect.
evidence, by .a majority of one—that amounting, in fact,
to throwing- Lord Ashley's Bill over the Session. The
strap and the billy-roller will rule triumphant over the
galled backs, or the battered limbs, of. the unfortunate
children, throughout the year 1833 at least—thanks ..to
the Reformed Parliament. -A great noise was made
about the abolition, which was to be, of •flogging in the
army—a Rx. :;.'-)rmed Parliament, and .a Reforming Minis-
try, voted its continuance. The army was to be dimi-
nished—it is increased. So was the navv—we are in •
volved in a contest which will require. a navy on the war