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      fllUE English world is in suspense , waiting ; for l _ the Parliamentary battle -which has been postponed until next Monday ; and for the battle , at or about Bucharest , between the advancing Turks and the retreating Russians , of which we may expect hourly news . " The meeting of Government " supporters" ( who are always voting at least against the Government ' s propositions ) at Lord John ' s official house , last Monday , was only successful in staving off a crisis for . a week , and , perhaps , also , in preventing some personal impertinence , from Palmerstonian liberals , to the Duke of Newcastle . But the

      conference did not produce any better feeling between " the leader" and the led ; those who spoke at all , spoke jof their disappointment and disgust with Lord John Russell ' s conduct : and ( is the mass of invited gentlemen , who did not speak , left the room while Lord John was settling with the Irish members about Tenant Right , -we may infer that no very affectionate or respectful

      party feeling prevails . The general question asked , by these gentlemen of one another waswhy were we invited here at all ? not that they took the constitutional ground , that these private Parliaments are improper , but the reason of convenience — all that Lord John coldly said , being precisely what ho could have said publicly . En fact , Sir John meant to have said a good deal more , had ho seon that the tone of his

      audience was pleasant ; but it was not : ho is going down , amid general contempt : and' the whole Whig party must be startled at finding , from what certain Radical members intimated on the occasion , that those Liberals who still adhere to the notion that Liberalism must bo carried by one or other section of the aristocracy are beginning to think that the Poelites arc the party for the " popular members" to follow . All that is proffered by partisans , in explanation of the

      unarchy in the ranks of the Government huuportors , avoids the real truth , —which scorns to ho that , while we a \\\ know that there in a vnst mass of splendid intellect and fine character in the Coalition , nobody knows what tlio Coulition k at , whether in wiror peace . And , of course , it becomes the busmesa of the Radicals to coasutor whether Uiour duty to thoir constituents is consistent with a pol . cy which is mere politeness . If the Radicals otnaot and fit loaders among the arbtocracy , why

      not appoint a leader of their own ? Would not Sir William Molesworth take the premiership if the Radicals would give it to him ? Monday will test our worthiness , as a people , of parliamentary government ;—at present Parliament does not at all control the Government , though it renders Lord John unhappy , and occasionally makes him cry . If the 3 , 000 , 000 / . to be allowed ( not new taxes , be it observed , but a seizure of current revenue ) , on Monday , be conceded , as a

      credit , without explicit conditions at the instance of the Radical members ( among whom we may include Mr . Bright , for , as there is a war , it is his policy to make it pay ) , the sooner Parliament prorogues , after that , the . better : — the Parliament is no use to us : we must trust to the press , which is daily more and more usurping Parliament ' s functions , as . in all countries where there arc only forms of representative institutions . Parliament itself i 3 impatient for the " Recess ;" and it is on all hands always dealt with as an evil

      that the session should extend to September . Lord Brougham has aided Lord Monteagle in throwing out of the Lords ( that is , into a select committee ) the bill which was to effect the reform so long urged by Mr . William " Williams , and at last adopted by the bold Mr . Gladstone ( the pnyment of all revenue at once into the Treasury , without drawback for cost of collection ) , on the ground that if certain fixed votes had to come for the " annual control 1 1 of the House of Commons , that chamber , having so much more business to

      do , would have to extend its sittings : —a sort of comment illustrating our complete oversight of what our " constitution" provides for . The Lords , as a . House , have been guilty of the same blunder , and which was properly exposed iu the Commons by Mr . Bright ; for by deciding thnt they will receive ( practically this is what is meant ) no Commons bill after the 25 th of this month , they limit the action of our representative senate —that is , chuck altogether

      what wo are pleased to call self-govornment . The Commons , however , take the " setting down " complacently ; and , in truth , thoy have done mo little , nwl have so little to do ( they think ) , ( hut this would scarcely be a Ruitublo session fof them to Htand out on constitutional doctrine . This week they have hud two days — ono day lusting fifteen hours !—on the liribory Bill , which will g < sL into the Lords before the 25 th ; und we do not apprehend any groat opposition there to the measure ,

      for the Peers can do very well without bribery , seeing wliat a splendid yet simple weapon is intimidation , —with which , if they lose all the borou ghs , which they won ' t , they could still contrive to keep nearly all the counties . What time was not devoted to bribery has been spent in mere silliness : on Tuesday , an individual clutches at the public money , or , worse , in a mercantile effort to turn the House of Commons into a patent agent ' s office in printing-machinery affairs ;—Mr . Gladstone talking common sense on the matter -with no effect , "When the House of Commons thus degenerates and neglects its grand old functions of ruling , why should the Lords be stifled in a London August ? We summarise in our news columns the position of the war ; and comment on the negative attitude which our forces have taken up would be useless . Our Ministers will , perhaps—it is not at all certain—tell us on Monday something of what we are to expect : how the negotiations stand , and whether Dundas a * d Lord Raglan , and Sir Charles If ivpicr , will measure their movements by those of the diplomatists . Our Court is receiving

      a Prussian envoy , and our Cabinet is answeringor has answered , and is waiting a rejoinder , " iu due course "—the Russian proposals communicated through Vienna , —no indications being noticed that Austria is seriously contemplating pushing her troops into WalUchia . The front of the Czar is still firm ; his last orders that we hear of were that his generals should re-occupy the lost positions in the Principalities ; and , meanwhile , be negotiates . Louis Napoleon , as if expecting nothing , journeys with h \» sick empress to tlic Pyrennees . Whero ho will meet , very likely , Queen Christina , and , it is not impossible , the " filia * ) ulclirior" Isabel ; for Madrid is in open insurrectionhalf a dozen of the chief towns of Spain have declared against the infumous rdyimc—and Eapartcro and Nnrvnez are appearing on the scene . O'Donnell has shown the qualities of a first-rato party chief ; ami his proclamation is that of a bold

      statesman . \\ o have no great faith in Ins hints at " representation " —• otic is ns wonry of watching that iiirce in . Spain ; w in England . But his and Duk'o ' s plan about " a militia" is something moi'Q roul . Wo know , iu « liifUory which is partly our own , what Spaniard can do , in localities , nixd provinces , whoa they arc trained j \ nd Uavo AVnas in thoir hands ; and aa the nation is advanced somewhat into ft distinct Knowledge of what good

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 22, 1854, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22071854/page/1/