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tCoRREsPoSDENCR or THE FREE PRESS. |
Letters from England.
no. XXXVIII.

LONDON, July IL, 1853.
/ In accordance with my plan of remarkns
on any interesting principle or usage of
English legislation which P ssing events may
bring into notice, | shall say word on
parliamentary measure to which considerable
attention has been directed during the past
week namely, calling the House On
ordinary occasions it is not customary to take
any notice Of the absence of members from
their seats. There is not, in either House.
anything resembling " call Of the roll i" as
we express it. Although in theory the SER
vice of members OF both Houses is obligatory
at all times, in practice the members of the
House Of Commons are amenable for their
delinquency only to their constituencies On
occasions OF great interest, however, when il is
desirable to get an expression of opinion from
a full House, it is competent for either House
to require the attendance Of every member.
and to punish with fine or imprisonment any
who, without satisfactory excuse, absent
themselves at the time specified in the order.
You must not understand that this " call"
Is ON occasion of a vote being taken it is
merely Il calling of the names Of members to
ascertain II they are present No member
can be compelled by any Parliamentary cx-
pcdicnt to give his vote on any question
This measure has not been resortcd to since
$50, when call was ordered pending dis
cusson Of the Corn-laws until Tuesday last.
when Mr.. Roebuck attempted to bring the
House to order - CALI for the 18th. on
which occasion he is to move his resolution
conforming ererp member of the late cabinet
1t is no great matter Of surprise that Mr..
Rocbuck lost his motion. In whumsoever
the British people have confidence or no con.
tidencc, they certainly place very little re-
lance on Mr. Roebuck or any of his restless
angry party.
This last move seems more like demons
tration of Mr.. Rocbuck's own vanity, than Il
well advised measure for the general veal
Indeed it is impossible not to think that he
is so pleased with the eclat of having over
turned u government, that he is ambition. to
repeat the game, and to play off his proves
with the greatest possible flourish. There
does not seem to be very much gained in the
present state of parties, by these rapid
changes of ministries bad as any of them
may be. one is about as good as another, and
1t is only useless waste of the venomous
stuff of which such men as Mr.. Roebuck are
made, to be always throwing dirt at the
Treasury Benches. In crisis, such men arc
some times useful, but if they would occn-
siOnllly intermit their clamor, there would
be more time for discussing those useful bills
about education and such things, which have
50 often to give place to some resolution of
ieiGned alarm from Mr.. Roebuck and his
comrerrS We have so many protracted dc.
bates on purely personal matters raised by
these needless and fruitless motions of no
confidence, that the session has been wasted
in clever plots and counterplots of PARTIES
and now We see one useful measure after
another doomed to neglect solely for want Of
the time which has been so needessy en-
crossed by these foolish resolutions, " fruitful
in controversies. but barren of effects "
We are involved in another ministerial
melee, which has all the appearance Of
crisis but how it will end nobody knows cx-
rcpt heaven above and the correspondents of
the New York Press. That eccentric poiti-
rlan Lord John Russell, has lust been brought
'ut in another Of his incomprehcnsible move
nents. IL seems that when he and the French
'lenirotentiary so suddenly left Vienna, it
vas under pledge to Count Buol, that they
should advise their respective Governments to
'ccert the Austrian proposition for settling
he third Of the four points. The nature
n this proposition was, that Russia might
Keep what naval force she might choose in
he Black Sea, but that the Western powers
hould maintain an equal force as n counter
heck upon any hostile attempts against lur
Key. Thus the Russian prcpoHdcrdnCc was
q be limited, while the Russian porcr was
O be allowed to grow unchecked. Both
governments refused to entertain the propo-
ition, Mr.. Drouyn de Lhuys resigned, but
ord John Russell neither showed any in
entionS of resgninG, nor even allowed the
ountry to understand that he had been the
carer and advocate of tactic proposition,
ut came home and acclaimed Justify against
he treacherous aud villainous designs of Rus
Ia, and insisted upon the absolute necessity
[ prosecuting the war with all possible vigor,
t transpired recently, through a Circular
ublished by Count Buol, that Lord John
ad made TO him the statement and the prom
Sc above alluded to with reference to the Aus
RAN proposal. Then the long cherished sus-
icion was verified that there was peace par