Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-20

IT'S the railway business which has been the most diligently
and effectively pushed large as the portion which stands for
completion next year IL was clear The beginning thai rail-
way legislation would be the grand chasacerse az he s
sion and has been The number Of bis was nearly
two hundred and fifty the House Of Commons was spl IN
into Committees OF five, 10 deal with The detsls and win
less felicity the details have been disposed Of ~
We have next glance at the position several parties
into which is divided now 50 numerous All parties ex-
hiht signs Of being weakened by inherent decay
than by the strength of opponents The fact appears be-
that single party has fully kept pace with public opinion
which, again. itself unsettled and distracted by different
lecs The result upon the several parties and sections that
none dares to make appeal TO the power whence must,
alter ALL derive real sustenance but rub by keep
ng up senbancc of intelligence with the public, and boast
y strength which il darcs bring full by bold and de-
cSve Deeds lest the deeds should be disavowed The differ
snce hes in the degree which each party in discred
~ most so perhaps is the old Utra-Tory party, whose
PVuces nave gone out Of fashion, whose tricks Of Govern
pen. nav ed whose battered arguments has
p =: - pacn up with pecings. OF this party, the
who swear by Church and State arc reduced to band
OF gentlemen so few in number as to throw an air az rdicne
~ e uoyoeu resistance 70 every relaxation IN the ancient
code OF dcue being the most dangerous Of ali
influences for political parties encounter The agricultural
Proectionss nearly in the same pr;caept and when
NIL mi Mites q MI psnsss made pssmp'O demand that
jory against them showed how little consideration survives
for the heirown mutton country gentlemen who have
forgotten to read their political and disguise their
exclusive projects in free-trade g principles. /"
The Wings began the session, in the person Of Lord John
RUSSELL by cayling, with glances the Wing Budget
Of 1914, otherwise forgotten they end the session. still in
Lord John, by caving the whole burden Of their song is
that Ministers praised for doing something the Wings
could have done better twas obvious that they begun the
session without plan or policy; they went without
either they finish without either except that notions
dawn upon them simply Of outopg the Tories Thus while
Lord john in his retrospect Of the session, Sir
bert Peel because his principles Of potecon" have grown
fine by degrees and beautifully less his fixed duty
has grown equally he talks Of it in the abb
has
s. to 0 while he is evidently drifting towards Mr. Vlerss
position Of total repeal Lord Pamerston has been the other
active Wings and he has made many nibbes at the right of
search the convention with France and other foreign
maerswithout result But the vscounts has been
very strange In his efforts 10 damage this Administration he
has not make assertions respecting the deenceess
state OF the country, which If false rash
and culpable II true. So reckless ake expect
turn to Office wts responsibilities he speaks like despe-
rate man. hopeless Of rcganng power and of
some special exclusion nay, tmgh almost be supposed that
he felt spite against the country for ncgccting him and his
preensons and wished to nnre in the struggle
tain its station in the world The French journalists read his
allegations somewhat after that fashions and the Prese
that he has "estabshed the fact that France may gappIe
with her ancient rival on her soil He has coued in
yason To these mouthpeces of faction Lord Melbournes
speech delivered this week in Fshmonger Hall instead Of
Parliament, is severe rebuke, with calm and impartial
glance at Sir r. PeeIs practical measures
The Freemdes have done nothing very striking. Mr..
Coben made good move for inquiry into the operation of
protection farmers Mr. Ward made his annual demand
for inquiry the special burdens on land; Mr. Vliers
for total abolition Of the Con-aws excellent speeches
were Delivered and the whole ground lost hut the
good harvest and the Of prosperity against eec
tive action the Corn-aws in Parliament The hest adj
made by the pleasant hoyday making style of pac-
teal dsqusion fdoOr the Bazaar andby
Sir Peels quiet cautious process Of undermining procc-
ton with guGsi Potectionist admissions and sweeping
roads the outpoststhe lesser duties in the Tariff The
Irish members have found how much attention has been paid
Ireland, how little obtained by themselves If they had
known their opportunity better they would have that
however agitation in Ireland might have exoed Of these
late CONCESSIONS the attendance in Parliament to urge the
practical results and improve The details would have furhered
the real interests of Ireland.
One other party ought not 10 be forgocn-lord Broug
ham copious in his legislation, universal his activity ter
rbie in his hostile vigilance railways The House OF
Peers said to have dwned down be the House of Lords
Lyndhurs Brougham and Campbell and he is the most
active partneacng for both sides, against both sides and
the House of Brougham The Three Estates Queen,
Broughan and Commons Amid all this nerness Of large
public elements all this conflict Of party and sectional nte
rests the position Of Ministers has been seriously affected
After ALL the Government Sir Robert Peel and his po
son determines its wheeabout Peel hps both gained and
lost strength BY the Of his policy be has
gained adherents among those who opposed him. the slow
thinkers Of the mdecasses have begun understand him.
and, having round agree with those who counted him
the best be had under circumstances are dis
posed to regard him the best possble-a final states
not to be questioned whose bitby policy realizes the
slow natural progress ages and proane zeaos in the
faith have gone far adopt the cry Of Peel and Provi
dence On the other hand, his beralized viewed
BY considerable portion Of his original party adhcren with
increasing disgust 81