WASTE OF PUBLIC TIME.
TIME, said CARDA.N, is may estate. Time also is a great part of the estate of the public. It is well to keep a vigilant eye over the expenditure of the public money; is it not also desirable to keep an anxious watch over the expenditure of the public time? The House of Commons divided last week on the Preston preservation amendment,—for it 5, against it 206. "I had not the slightest expectation that that amendment would be carried," said Mr. Hinvr. Then why, in the name of wonder, did lie make the amendment? There are seine members who seem to have an irresistible passion for being in a ludicrous minority. These fruitless divisions are a culpable waste of time ; and in the case of a general election, it will be as well if the electors dismiss some of those gentlemen who seem to sit in the House merely for the pleasure_of .heasing_thein7 selves talk. . To reject a candidate who has carelessly voted away the public Money, is very fair; and equally fair would it be to reject a candidate who is in the habit of prating away the public time.
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