New-York tribune., 1876-08-19
1AST DAYS OF PARLIAMENT.
CLOSING DAYS OF THE SESSION.

THUNDTH,ER INQUEST.
rpoy An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRiBUSE.l
Ioxpoy. Aug 3.-Wheu will this weary session
~ is 0ueston which everybody has been asking
.arvbodv else for some days, and which The Stand
.,5 has answered this morning. The Standard says;
session is not prolonged by factious opposi-
.;on to the Education bill Parliament will be pro-
r,ed on the 14th or 10TH" But inasmuch as
..rv important deputatOn, representing the adj
anced wing OF the Liberal party, yesterday waited
,on Lord Harrington, asking him TO enter protest
., the future stages of this measure and receiving
ood crumbs of comfort from him, will doubtless act
On tbeir own account, it is not unlikely that what
The Standard chooses to term factious opposition"
uiu be oaeIc cd The Education bill has to pass
trouch two Parhamen taTy stages yet, and II 1t is
foucbt on both of these-as there is every lndica-
ion that it will be-the Government Will have
10 choose between sacrificing the extraordinary
,d nnwarranted piece of Ietrogressiye legislation
rb;eh has been introduced for a generation, and
,be;r ropularty in the House. As il is, even upon
7Bc Standards own prediction, the session will be an
extremely late one. 1t is now many years since Par
roment was detained after the 18th of August, and
7 rboud imagine that the effect of OBTAINING II this
,eor will have such a salutary influence upon the
Government that 1t will be many years before the
sxnerment is tried again. The action of the Gov
eminent in reference to the Education bill is doing
more than anything else to bring about some sort OF
cohesion in the Liberal party. The Daily Ners to-
dov makes an observation which will find favor
With many Liberals when it says 1T is entirely
the fault of the Government that education is once
more made a party question. They have taken the
onportunity to crafty their reactonary supporters
hy repeaiing the compromise OF 1870 They nave
deliberately reOpencd the religious question: and
,,ode war ON the School Board system" That is the
,ft tI,aI ol,,ar W and
even the protest which Lore Harrington consented
70 move u useful as an indication that their re-
turn 10 Office they will not regard the present act as
!, any degree binding upon them. Indeed the action
of the Government has made the Liberal party more
unanimous than ever in the opinion that the time
hos come for the universal establishment OF Liberal
views
That which by immemorial custom usually ac-
eoupanies the end, or the approach of the end, OF
the Parliamentary scssiOn-the entertainment Of the
Cabinet at dinner by the Lord Mayor OF London
took place last night but as both the Premier ana
the Lord Chancellor were too unwe!i 10 attend-at
least so they sent vOrd-the affair lost much OF ITS
interest The duty Of replying for the Government
devolved upon Lord Salisbury. while MI HARDY
said few commonplaces about The army. Mr.
Hunt spoke what, when reported, amounts To hail
dozen lines of platitudcs about the navy. Mr.. Cross
House of Commons, and the Chancellor OF the Ex-
.beouer was laudatOry of the social virtues Of the
LoId Msyor Indeed the only person of any I'M
portance present was Mr. PieucpoEt, and the only
sIeecb. save it NAV be MT. CrOsss which afforded
auy lively reading was that of the new United
States Minister. Mr.. Picuepont appears TO be great
favoIite with Lord Mayor Cotton, for on two occa-
lions recently he has been the sole representative OF
the diplomatic body at the Mansion House hoSptaii-
ties Mr. PierIepont told the guests that Americans
were very fond OF debate, but they were sometimes
very much frightened at legislation. do not know
whether you will detect in the light o recent events
at Washington any clew TO this remark But. per-
haps after all. it must be admitted that it was TO
Lord Silisburys speech that the chief attention was
turned aad of this must tell you little. | shall
probably not be very far wrong if / say that the
noble LoTd's speech has excited sort OF feeling
and that il is even to-day read with anguid inter
est On questions of domestic policy he said abso-
lutely nothing, but he claimed that what had been
done when added to what yet remained to be done,
when accomplished, was a list of measures not un-
worthy of the country. In speaking of foreign af-
fairs his Lordshp was equally reucent. He only
yentured to say that if the recent reports OF atroc-
ties in Bulgaria were not exaggerated, they were
very shocking. He thought they were exaggerated
and moreover il not, nothing had been shown that
tney 70 he ldlu al iiit OOOI VI 'I'
erumeut. They might be certain that the Turkish
Government would make every effort to stop those
borrors. even if they existed and even If they did
rot do il from their own feelings the voice that was
rising from England and all parts of Europe, must
warn them against allowing such proceedings to go
on.
The debate On the Eastern question III the House
OF Commons, which took place after SO many DC
lays on Monday night, in The presence OF very full
house. was a very tame affair, and fell far short OF
the expectations which had been formed Of It,
Three resolutions were before the House, but any
amount Of pungcDcy they POSSESSED was by general
assent taken out OF each Of them, aud any element
OF censure upon the Government quite oblitcrated
Indeed at the end of the debate they were all with
drawn and thus they only afforded an excuse for
tie discussion. The debate upon the question took
pace in both houses simultaneously hut the debate
ia the Lords may be dismissed with fever words
than even that in the Commons. Lord Granville
offered the mi.iest conceivable censurc upon the
Government on one or two minor points, and Lord
Derby repeated in substance the main points Of the
reply which be made 70 tho deputGtion headed by
Mr. Bright which waited on him fortnight ago.
The only element OF interest in the Commons de-
bate was the intcrpOsit0n OF Mr.. Gladstone, whose
speech at once brought hr Disgaeli % Lis feet IN
reply. MF. Gladstone justified his intcrpoAtion in
the debate Oh the ground that he was the sole sur
viving member Of the House Who was Responsible
Tor the Crimean war, and said be arose to Justify
The war and 10 contend that its results afforded
means Of dealing with the present Crisis. The object
Of that Mr. Gladstone declared 20 be the defense
Cf the Turkish Empire from outward attack and
IRON corruption and dissolution from within. Rus
tia was defeated in the Crimoa and so reduced in
her resources that the terror of Russia was row a
~ ntar NJ I flo