The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-04-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FROM'THE AGE.)  Parliament I—God bless it I—has taken holidays unto itself, and we are to be deprived of the pleasure of its agreeable company for another week. We must endeavour to live under the affliction. It has carried one measure in more than two months ; and that has been so completely mangled and bungled during its progress through the house, that its  "Mother would not know its child."  Nothing else whatever has it done, except prate, prate, prate—in which accomplishment, indeed, it surpassed any other assembly on record. We suppose it will just be as industrious when it comes back to us again. Croker, in a very clever and smart article in the Quarterly just published, has a sharp analysis of this Parliament.—The most common observation," says the Ex-Secretary, " that we hear in every society, and read in every journal, is, that the Reform Bill has disappointed everybody. Yet we believe that the truth is, that the Reform Bill has disappointed nobody. Sure we are, it has not disappointed us. The new Parliament is composed, and is working, exactly as all the leaders of the conservative party—and as we, humble followers in that honourable train, predicted; and the avowed partisans of the bill, who so loudly complain that they have been disappointed, make theolight mistake of -confounding their premises with their prognostics." He proceeds then to prove, that " the Whigs or Ministerialists, with purblind selfishness,W believed that it would enable them to plunder the Tories of politica.' power, and to continue themselves in office for a session or two—and they have not been disappointed; the longer-sig-hted,Radicals saw that, by playing the temporary game of the Whigs, they were laying the foundations of their own not distant supremacy, and that the first step towards a-uornplete dernocratical revolution was, to have a House of Commons whichshould bring itself into contempt, and all old and constituted authorities into odium and peril—and have they been disappointed ?"  We shall answer—they have not. The Whig House of Commons is the most thoroughly despised House that ever sat in St. Stephen's; and, to use the words of Sir John Cam Hobhouse, " it would-be felt as a sort of national triumph, if they were to be taken by the ears and thrown into the Thames." This was said when Sir John was a flaming patriot—an annual speaker against flogging—a deeply sympathizing sniveller over the melancholy misfortunes of the harassed Hibernians, kept down by harsh laws, prohibiting murder and other frolics of the same kind—An 'short, When Mr, Hobhouse had no idea that he was to scale the treasury bench, and pocket six or seven, thousand a year at the easy price of unsaying in office all he had ever said out of it.  The Working cf this Reformed Parliament has shown to the people, that all the fine things that were promised them were merely thrown out in delusion. The distress of the country was forced—absolutely forced by Attwood, on the House, almost in the teeth of its forms—it was met by the previous question. The horrors of the factory system are not to be abated. No !—the Refortned Parliament has granted the mill-owners tithe to collect. evidence, by .a majority of one—that amounting, in fact, to throwing- Lord Ashley's Bill over the Session. The strap and the billy-roller will rule triumphant over the galled backs, or the battered limbs, of. the unfortunate children, throughout the year 1833 at least—thanks ..to the Reformed Parliament. -A great noise was made about the abolition, which was to be, of •flogging in the army—a Rx. :;.'-)rmed Parliament, and .a Reforming Ministry, voted its continuance. The army was to be diminished—it is increased. So was the navv—we are in • volved in a contest which will require. a navy on the war