7 JULY 1832, Page 1

NEWS OF THE 'WEEK.

THE session of Parliament is drawing towards its close ; the mem- bers are weary, so are the public ; yet business does not progress with that rapidity which in an ordinary case such a combination of eircumstances•would naturally produce. The truth is, that the baser part of the House hang as a drag upon all liberal measures; and let the Ministers propose what they will, the machine moves slowly. Then the Irish members—who talk every night and all night long, and in whose imaginations words have so long usurped the place of things, that • they consider talking as the only true business of the House—are -so divided, that let the discussion be what it will, Ireland must •mingle with it ; and let what Subject soever connected with Ireland be discussed, for every word in its praise by one member, there is sure to be three against it from- -another. Thus weeks slip away, and nothing is effected. During the present Week, we had a speech- from Lord -RopEN,--as Jong - as. Oxford Street, on the eternal ..dis- tin:bailees of his Clear country,—to which he and his party have contributed- as much as all other causes put together; and a grand division, which left Lord RODEN, Lord GREY, and the Irish disturbances, precisely where it found them. On Tuesday, we had O'CoNNELL running tilt against Mr. SPRING RICE and Mr. STANLEY, in defence of the worst and most corrupt portion of the constituency in the empire, and above all in Ireland—the freemen of towns. On the same day, we had a dissertation in the Lords on the subject of Irish Education, and the banishment of the Word of Truth from the Government Schools; and, apropos to the ba- nishment of' the truth, an episode concerning Bishop PHILL- Pans and the Duke of BUCKINGHAM'S famous letter, of which the Times "Radical' gave a verbatim copy that did not contain a word - of the original On Wednesday, we had Sir HENRY PARNELL and his precious Registration Clauses; for which if he get not the thanks of Queen's County, he will deserve them. On Thursday, we had -Irish Education andIrish Tithes once more. Last night gave us the -Irish Reform Bill in a new and much-improved edi- tion; against which, it may perhaps be granted that the speeches on nothing during.the rest of the week were cheaply exchanged. • MT. 'STANLEY'S Irish Tithe Bill, introduced on Thursday, is Meant to effect a general and compulsory composition, and to facilitate the recovery of the tithe when so compounded for. His other bill, for erecting an ecclesiastical court for the investment and distribution of the sums paid for-tithe redemption, will hardly be pressed this session. The success of the first is not altogether certain.

The Scotch Reform Bill was read a second time in the Lords on Thursday, without opposition : it is to be committed on Monday. Lord HADDINGTON threatens amendments—the wrong way, of course.

The topics incidentally discussed have not been many. The Duke of WELLINGTON has found out that in sending the children of the Poles to Siberia, the Emperor does not go an inch beyond the treaty of Vienna; and we suppose, in plotting for the downfal. of Earl GREY, he Was. equally, in the Duke's opinion, within .its ample verge. The only other topic of interest has been the case of SOMERVILLE, the soldier who was so cruelly flogged for corresponding with a "Radical newspaper. - He is", it seems, to be discharged; and Lord HILL is to inquire into the alleged causes of punishment. Lord ALTHORP. says the Court will be so constituted as to give general satisfaction. We trust it will.