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    ALTHOUGH Ministers transacted the whitebait dinner in the most regular manner on Saturday , the Commons have been impudent enough to prolong their discussions , and the House will not break up this week . The impudence of the Commons in thus hindering the official arrangements will be the more apparent when we show how clearly the duty of members

    lay before them . They had accomplio' - " ^ * greater part of the sessional business , they had voted all the money , and rejected several of the Ministerial Bills —quite enough to satisfy the natural malignity of man . In fact , they had tired themselves out with work and had gone—that is the majority had gone ; leaving the House in possession of those members whose official duties or parliamentary rank is thought to entail the obligation of stopping to the close .

    Ministers even went beyond the necessity in order to fulfil their pledges to the House . For instance , Mr . Vebnon Smith had promised that a statement of the Indian Finance should be brought forward ; and although he might have well found excuse for delay in advancing the measure until prevented by the close of the session , he honourably fulfilled his promise ; giving a very able resumt of those works in India and of the state of the revenue—which might have been compiled from the Indian papers , if it had been worth while to do so .

    So long as the House of Commons sits , members wilt bring forward their motions . Sir John Fitzgerald , for example , desired to obtain the interference of Parliament , or of Government , to enforce good fnith in payment of Spanish bonds —payment at least of the interest . Spain has a magnificent mode of arranging its money difficulties : it borrows money on terms of exorbitant interest , which is of course deducted from the

    principal in the usual way . It then finds that it has not had 100 / . for every 100 / . of stock nominally sold , discovers that there is something to chaffer about , and delays ; the interest is much accumulated , Spain then " capitalizes " the arrears , and begins again with no settled purpose whatever of accompliahing the new bargain literally . Sir John asked Ministers to interfere , but Lord Pai ^ mbbbton declined to pay the debts of Spain . Again Mr . Hkywood desired to obtain a reviiion of the Holy Scriptures by competent hands ,

    the whole of the volume being at present under the discredit entailed by the known fact , that a large number of passages are entirely distorted in sense . But Sir George GREr objected to the motion , as tending " to unsettle the faith in the Bible . " We cannot conceive how a correct translation of the volume could unsettle the public confidence so much as the distinct parliamentary announcement that the text is very erroneous and misleadinor .

    We do not believe that even that announcement will unsettle public reverence for ecclesiastical institutions half so much as the strange debates upon the Bishop of London and Durham Retirement Bill , or the correspondence upon which the bill is based . We now have more of the story . The two bishops are completely superannuated ; they offered to resign if they were paid , the one COOO / ., the other 45001 . a year ; Lord Paxjwerston at once perceived the propriety of acceding to that proposal , which permits men burdened with y !« . . * to retire honourably , creates two vacancies in the epidcopal bench , and opens the way for episcopal

    dais this week . Lord Glabendon has been obliged to confess , in the presence of the Peers , that Russia has dismantled the fortresses of Ismail and Reni , contrary to the treaty : the strongholds were to hare been surrendered to Turkey , but such are the independence and good faith of our Government , that no attempt will be made to compel a better observance of the treaty on the part of Russia .

    Meanwhile Lord Palmerstok , having a grudge against Brazil because it resented his dictating in the internal administration of that empire , continues to preserve towards it a position of great hostility . Now Brazil has been conspicuous , first for treating its slaves with humanity , next for facilitating the emancipation of slaves , then for putting every check upon the dealing in

    slavesslave trade being prohibited , and being continued only by help of a contraband trade which has been impeded but not entirely suppressed . Brazil is a " !«? ual ) Je customer , interchanging commerce with England ; it is governed by a constitution , and is strictly an outpost of those ideas in politics and trade which we ought to support . Lord Ci . Aj » , r ** - i > on ' s confession of our present attitude towards Brazil is humiliating .

    resignation . Leading members of the House of Commons resisted the measure . They find that there is no law permitting the retirement of bishops ; well , here is a law supplied . They object that to stipulate for money in resigning the offices of the Church is simony . Not at all , since the bargain is quite open . They also object to being forced into a decision without having time to deliberate ; but , replies Government , there is no necessity for deliberation : two bishops are so old that they cannot wait , our measure is quite reasonable , your own supporters have gone away to rusticate for the summer , we have the majority , and you must pass the bill . Bill read a second

    Lord Lucan and Mr . Viuliers have been speaking at each other from their several Houses . Lord Lucam has accused Mr . Viluehs , by implication of having been partial iu the exercise of hia duty at the Chelsea inquiry . Now the charge is the harder , since the Judge-Advocate was generally considered to favour Lord Lucan by allowing him a most outrageous licence in the time and tone of his speaking ; and this ia how Mr . YnxiEBS is repaid !

    time . Even proposals to facilitate may become hindrances . Mr . Wilkinson , for example , brought forward a motion for a new standing order , fixing one hour as the maximum of duration for any one speech . The proposal is specious , but not likely to be successful , even if carried ; which is of course out of the question . While telling the longest and aim > st

    It is the more difficult to understand why Lord Lucan should not be satisfied , since we have the Chelsea report , which ought to be a real triumph 1 for him . The purport of this document , indeed , has a more than poetical justice , —it has a most exact distribution of happy endings . Tlio persons accused in the report of Sir John M ' . Njsxu . and Colonel Tujuloch of not properly providing for the cavalry horses were Lord Lucan , Lord Cmdigan , Sir KiciiAiiu Auiky , Colonel Gojudoit , and : Mr . Commissary-General Filbkb . The Lord is

    the best speakers that they must not talk foriu re than one hour , it would practically proclaim to ill members whatsoever that they were perfectly i ! . ; e to talk for that time . Is it not probable that we should have a great increase of speakers , each man talking for exactly sixty minutes ? The proposal was rejected by 57 to SO . There have been not a few Parliamentary

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 26, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2151/page/1/