Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-08-15
NUMBER 80.

metaphor and very small amount of og;e ,,,..,... -
asersoon; s Prom the moment Mr.. whits~ide had deli.
,ereu otter philippe against Lord Stratfor de R.e,
the power Of the Conservative party for eomtne .c,;
vac extnguished Ate herself vas never NOR. succ...,
~ Gnnsng .ne apple OF discord The House OF Commons
aso ren-moered that whatever might be thought Of IN.
misfortune of Kars Lord Pamer.ton had succ.d - ,h
OF Puone snsrs at time Of great danger and dif.
heuity y, and while others had sought to ar,b ON, he
nour snj lower national chsf.ct.r had c.,r,.t -.
through the conflict without oss and without di.crt =
The motion was rejected by enoruou. nlsjorty yor
another signal triumph Ministers were indebted "a, .no,h
Irish gentleman, Mr.. q. H. Moore, Who forced uoon an.
House OF Commons debate on the recruiting in a.,
ana mus exposed his party TO still dana
iefeat Another triumph OF the Government .e.rc.Iy
e-s signal was the almost unanimous assent TO the copd
toos on which peace concluded an assent
70 'ne moderation OF Parliament sndhghy horoarable to
Letd falmcrston and Lord Clarendon.
Among the episodes of the NAV mentop tho
ne single combat between Sir James Graham and Sir Chas
apier from which neither party retired wholly un,cs,hed
out m which Sir Charles Napier did himself by pub.b
ing confidential documents infinitely more ni.sb;.f th.n
he suffered from the lboured inv.etve. Of Sir J,n,.,
6raham Another subject the reform OF The Statute
Law, which was pressed upon th. House With unusual ur
gency and frequency but OF which we have tt. hon.
I'll the house can bs induced to carry method and
precision into its proceedngs give up
anu uesaitory eeisanon and % remsnber th only
by king on fixed principles and 10y .ystem.tic rules
that such reform can be effected perpetuaed Anotb-
er remarkable episode Lord John Rns~es attempt To
re-csiablsh himself in the opinion OF the House and M
country by the introduction Of general system OF educ.
uon Ihe failure sa' a. complete any OF those .aeh
have attended his later efforts result ha. been
to establish Minister OF Education the House of Com,
mons and thus TO diminish the chance Of the quiet work
ing Oh the present scheme on which only hope
gres towards popular education depends
IL Is not for the leading
OF the past session, which certainly that Ministry
Is able TO produce such proofs Of the confidence
the House Of Commons should have been foed in 90 ms.
ny measures, and have Withdrawn many more for lear
oil similar late. The cause must think be sought
partly IN the Government ITSELF patty in the House Of
Commons and more than either in the extraordinary
manner n which that House il pleased to conduct it, bu.
ness The Government, no doubt, has often shown lack
OF debating talent in defending its ea.ures and levi
y and want of eanestness in abandoning them the rt
show OF an opposition, often greater than might rea-
sonaoy have been expected The House also seems 10
be less under party influence and inclined 10 think
and act Tor seit but there has been enemy ega
ton in THE session at all comparable ia his power Of OBJ
strueton to Time. Parliament has done little Of what
t has attempted for lack of the leisure
out its designs Never 30 complete an eIempI6ca-
ton f OF strenuous dleness This to Us mainly to
arise from two cAusesft that the House Of Commons
insists upon carrying every measure through all its
stages in the iul House. by which IL entirely fore
goes the advantage OF the division Of labour
and overwhelms Itself with the business which part OF
1t could discharge much better than ths whole and
secondly that small portion OF its time IL devoted to
the dispatch of the real business OF the session Il /.
admitted on all hands that legislation is impossible except
through the agency OF the Government. The Govern
ment has also carry through the House the
OF expenditures tor the year it b also expected to sur
render Its own business nights any who demands
an opportunity to mpeach its proceedings The House
OF Commons has sat six months. For the first four
o these Government has been allowed only two Ays our
OF hve IN every week and from these two be deduc
ted half Friday generally taken up by objectionable
license, in making speeches the motion Tor ADJOURN
Monday. From the ith of February the sth
OF june the House was occupied Government nights
with the discussion OF the estimates with the exception
OF three or four nights given the County Poc- and
one to the Joint-stock Companies Bill All other Co
vernment business had to be huddled through after
twelve o'clock, at period when il any one objected
it necessarily postponed Since Supply was finished
the business of the House has been completes scramble
and, there being time for discussion measures were
dropped TO avoid the time which opposition would cost
Il Is needless TO add that the days appropriated to
Government between counting out speaking against time
urging stale claims and the ventilation inpractca BILE
theories by impracticabe men, little no business has
been transacted Surely would be unreasonable to
demand that the House of Commons should appropriate
little more than twohs of its time the transaction of
business that the nuisance Of Friday adjournment speech
es should be absted aud that plan should be bit
on for delegatng portion of the House
OF the details OF legislation Till these things
have little hope Of witnessing in future any improve
ment OF that much ado about nothing which has been the
eadng characteristic OF 1856.