Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-12-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DENTON AND HAUGHTON  EXAMINER.  SATURDAY DECEMBER 906, 1882.  THE PROROGATION SPEECH.  T;ie so•called supplevntary session of Parliament, which came to a close on Saturday last, was really a detached portion of the session that began so far back as February, and this is hoW it catne to pass tht.t the country witnessed the novelty of a 'prorogation speech from the Throne in the beginning of December. It was the neces• city felt by the Government forgetting the new rules of procedure passed in the 'malion just ended that brought about this result, So important was it deemed that o lsages should be made in the then existdig regulations of the House of Commons - for tue purpose of exneditir- ft— •  ,d=,„\  urgent business. If the entire length of an ordinary session had teen needed to carry the new rules, the country would:not have considered that the time was wasted, so important had it become that the facilities afforded for wilful obstruction by the old regulations should be broke down. An example of the beneficial operation of the new rules was affoided by the failure of Hr. Parnell, in the closing days ot tl.e I session, to get up a debate on the working of the Laud Act because he could not muster a sufficient number of members to support his motiou for adjournment, which if (rattled, would have enabled him and his follower s to exhaust the patience of the House. The prorogation, speech afforded evidence that the session of Parliament which passed the new rules aff.eting the conduct of business in the House of Com• mons, was by no means a barren one in other respects, though the obstructionists, Parnehite sod Conservative, availed them. selves as much as they could of the license afforded by the old rules, having a presentiment that these were certainly doomed. The Crimes Preventioa Act and the Arrears supplerneutary to the coercive and remedial Acts of the previous session rilda• thug to Ireland, were additions of the utmost importance to the Irish statute-book These Acts have been long enough in operadon already tOr their woith to be tested, and there cannot be any doubt, whatever maybe said to the contrary by the enemies of the Government, that they have produced and are producing the , most salutary effects. There is marked I and decided id.provement in the districts that were most disturbed, and that auspic. ions circumstance is not affected by the recent bloodthirsty outbreaks in Dublin of the ruffianly emissaries of the secret societ lee, which are believed to have their head. quarters in the Irish capital. Some have gone the length of pointing to these assassination outrages as convincive of the failure of the Act of last session of tranquillise Ireland ; but murders committed in England or Scotland might just as well be referred to as illustrations of the failure of 'the- gallows to diminish the shedding of -blood. It was inevitable, sines the .house of Commons supplies the sinews of war, that the brilliant success of the brief campaign in Egypt-wlikh even Lord Salisbury is compelled to admit line increased the popularity of the Government should receive some prominence in the Royal Speech which prorogued Parliament. It was equally inevitable that marked reference should be made to the valour and fidelity to duty which .had distinguished the officers cud men both of the military and naval service. Glory is not gained without cost in the sacrifice of lives and in the expenditure of money; but the country has the satisfaction of thinking that, as regards the campaign in Egypt, it has received money's worth for what cannot be considered an extra-vagant outlay. When extra cost has been incurred, the state of the revenue becomes a matter of first importance, and this is referred to, in no complaining spirit, in the Prorogation Speech, thoundi it