Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-08-27
been styled we here extract from the report of the

Mr. c. BERKELEY appealed to the common Of the
Houset would be useless to include the honorable and
gallant member for Lincoln among those having common
he appealed to the common sense OF the House
whether elections should be made simple and dry
ter of business whether they to have at them
these bands Of music and banners and ridiculous
sons Only suppose his right honorable friend the First
Lord of the Admiralty marching to the hustngs under
| banner Inscribed "Jepmy Graham and Consistency"
| loud laughter Another honorable gentleman said
!" You surely won't prevent the ringing of bells" Why
at the last election in borough the clergyman refused
let the friends Of Of the candidates have the key
the belfry They broke open the bcfry rang the bells
TO their hearts content and then broke every window IN
the clergymans house
Col SIBTnoRPE said the honorable member who had
just down had been pleased to aude him in very
courteous terms, and he should treat his observations
with the contempt which he had for the honorable gentle
There two kinds Of sense common sense and
at all lie in better position than the ho-
norable member, he having and the honor
able member having at ALL He should not trou-
bic the House with further observations, and the honor
able member might take what he had said as he liked
1t is confidently expected that Parliament will be
prorogued by the Queen person the lSth at fur
thest on the 10Th instant.
The abors Of the session said to have told this year
with unusual force not only the comfort but on the
health also of many members of Parliament, and 1t is
quite natural that they should sigh for the joyful day
which shall shut up Saint Stephens and leave them free
to wander off in search of of health TO the
country to the moors, to the Continent to yachting or
to shooting, any thing rather than late hours bad
air. and smoky, hot, and dusty London They are evil
IDENTIFY clearing their way many bills passed over or
deferred The been lately done in Parlia
ment by about 200 members who alone remain in town.
The consequence of this is that Government at any
time liable be defeated in its most useful propositions
| by combinations by mere accident. The members,
oo who still left just of the class who most need
relaxation and recreation this the only when
continuous fine weather be expected The willing
horses do all the work Something be done to
the evils Of system which induces such results sug
geston which Lord JOHN RUSSELL threw out the other
night has been favoraby received is that there shall
be short session. from the beginning of November
| the middle Of December then propagation until Feb
ruary, when there will be chance of keeping Parla
ment creditably and usefuy together until the end of
June. With view to making at least an experiment of
this Sort there is present in circulation in the House Of
Commons sort Of declaration in its favor and urging
Government to give it trial and thin that House at
present is up to Friday night this document had, it is
understood received the signatures Of fewer than one
hundred and twenty members. The remainder of the
session will probably largely augment the number Of its
subscribers.
Ministers having declined to interfere with the decision
of the majority of the National Board of Education in
Ireland relative to the prescribed books, Archbishop
WHATELEY, Mr.. BLAcKBURSE and Mr.. BARON GREENE
have resigned their at the Board The clergy have
drawn up strong .emonsrance to Government and here
the matter stands present The dispute in the Board
Invested Of all technicalitie this The mi
norty believe that united religious instruction up to
certain point, practicable and ought to be aban-
dcned the contrary the majority contend that the ex
pertinent Of twenty years has been complete failure,
and have decided by their Government refuses
to interfere with this decision, and hence Archbishop
WHArELEY and his friends infer that their views are not
approved Of by the Government and have consequence
resigned We fear that there great danger of the whole
governmental scheme of education for Ireland falling to
the ground. Certainly nowhere is education so much
needed
Rumors respecting the Eastern question have succeeded
each other rapidly during the week. the papers
been SO filed with comments upon these rumors framed
by the hopes fears of the writer's and nged with the
political feelings of the party to which the respective
journals attached, that shall not your
ders by reporting them but shall merely repeat the yet
uncontradcted dit of the day One thing certainly APP
pears be Russia prefers delay, and delay the
very thing which will best promote her Interior designs
With view to this, it is said that the Emperor re-
fuses to close with any proposition made by England and
France, and prefers diplomatic communications with the
Porte, to be made and answered through Vienna The
Daily News says
The Car has on evident interest in prolongng the
negotiations just Reconstruction is too papaby
the policy of Russia, while delay to Turkey death 1t
may be thought worth the Sultan while for the sake of
procuring immediate evacuation of his territories to
concede something of pride and dignity even at the risk
of woundng thereby the religious and political ppeudices
Of his But his position is manifesty critical to
render any further concession safe unless the compen-
satng advantages which is intended be imme
date and palpable."
Another great evil arising from this delay is the grow
20 al
with the long proracted discussion and the hestancy
taking steps revenge the insult put upon Turkey by
occupancy Of the princpaites. morning paper says
All the letters received from Constantinope continue
to bear witness to state of the popular mind fraught
with the greatest danger to civil tranquility The Otto
man population disappointed at the naction of the
Government and what to them appears to be the weak
bad faith Of the allies The Greeks the other
hand eate and nsoent and exalt the power of Rus
sin than Upon these perilous elements the
agents of Russia daily operating and the obseryant
alarmed when they perceive how small cause might
provoke an explosion"
We very much afraid that the truth will be Disco
vered at last to be that Austria has had every thing al
most her way, and that if any should arise be-
tween Turkey and Russia, Austria will join the latter
The number of Russian troops in the prncpates pro-
baby reaches 100 000 The Turkish army stationed
in Roumelia is about l25,00o The main force is at
Shunia.
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