The Globe remarks, that the speeches of Members of Parlia-
ment, " not over-profitable at any time, are provokingly tiresome at this season of the year." As Sir ROBERT PEEL said some time since, "who can be expected to sit through long Committees in the Dog-days ?" In imitation of this well-bred impatience of the town in August, our contemporary, it seems, " grows sick, and damns the climate, like a lord." Besides, the Reformed Par- liament having prudently resolved not to repeal the Sep- tennial Act, where is the use of making speeches now 2 In the course of the next six years, there will be numerous opportunities of holding forth; and if their constituents ask the honourable members what they have been doing since February 1833, is there not the Irish Suppression Bill to point at, and the grants of twenty-one millions to West India slaveholders and Irish titheholders ? When did any of the old Borough Par- liaments vote away so much of the public money in one session ? This we take to be the real meaning of the following passage, which we find in the Globe of last night.
" The remaining business of the House of Commons will, it is expected, be got through in about a fortnight ; but if so, the members must withdraw many of the motions of which they have given notice, or shorten the speeches, which, not over-profitable at any time, are most provokingly tiresome at this season of the year. As there is no reason to suppose there will be any dissolution, those gentlemen who wish to display their zeal and talents for the gratification of their constituents had better defer their labour to some more convenient opportunity; and they may easily excuse themselves by the mass of business which has been transated."
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