THE PARLIAMENT MEN AND THE PRESS.
THE Members of Parliament are for ever clamouring against the Press, and acting on its suggestions. This mock independence and real subservience, while it.amuses, gratifies us. We are content to be feared, for we look an Sear as the only true principle of obe- dience with th.S,so. to Whom our censures are dealt out more freely then accepta'si3e There is, however, one practice of which we think we have a eight to complain. It may be the misfortune of journalist', to see things somewhat more clearly, and expre,:s their jeW:i so.rnewhat more intelligibly, than lords for the mast part do. An li:ereditary io•norance of reasen and of grammar, we admit, males no Fart of the democratic privileges. Let this be visited with as much contempt as it deserve- : all that we ask is, that our- " no" shall receive the same coesideration as our "ave." If we, blame a peer, and the :leer reply not, we will permit Lord LONDON- DERRY to demand a reply on our behalf—protesting always, as in consistency he is 1100101 to do, that he does not f:elieve a word we say. But if we harsh to blame a peer, or if any one in our columns happen to blame a peer,—and if the peer think fit to reply, unasked, through the same cliannel,--then we say to Lord. LONDONDERRY, let the answer stand against the accusation. There is our poor and despised authority pro—there is the same authority eon : the one is as good as the other. To question Lord PO NSO NBY touching what Meinherr VA N DER SmissEN had said. in the Times, after Lola PoNsoNny had said in the Tint('N also that there was not a word of' truth in what Meinlierr advanced, was a sheer waste of the time of the Public and of Lord Pox- SO NI3Y. When a discussion is opened in the journals, it may be closed in the Lords : but there can be no reasen why a discussion that has been heard out in the journals and there settled, should be awakened again in the Lords. Let them repeat their own argu- ments a hundred times over, but there is not the sligi.ee,t neces- sity for repeating ours.
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