The results of the session are now before us. The

time for eon- sideriug calmly what has been gained or lost by the legislative proceedings of the last seven months has arrived. We have ex- amined the Votes of both Houses—those dry but truth-telling records of things done—with the view of getting at the actual re- sult of all the strife and talking with which the country has been so long dinned. It is unsatisfactory beyond the belief of any person whose attention has not been regularly given to the progress of Par- liamentary business. To put our readers in possession of the facts, we have drawn up a few tables, which will show at a glance the fate of the more important measures and motions introduced into either House during the past session.

First come the Bills having reference more especially to the affairs of England and Wales.

ENGLISH Bats.

Introduced. By whom Introduced. TLennad.b.7 Fate of the Bill.

Title.

Rejected by the

Stafford Borough Feb. 9 Mr. DIVETT March " t Lords,29111July Feb. 11....Lord JOHN Russzt.L. June 28.1 itsreds.1.8bily, A t„hr,e.

English Tithe

try thu

Re jected

..Sir Scam CAMPBELL.. March 24/ tommons,11th

Aug.

Allowed to drop .. Sir 1011N CAMPBELL. .Aug. 8./ because pervert- ed by the Lords. Allowed to drop { rt by Mr. O'Co-

NELL.

Passed by the

Prisoners' Counsel Feb. 12.. .Mr. E WART April 12 1 Commons, 19th

August. Registration of Births,

&c., and Marriages 1•Feh. 17. •

Celebration

Pluralities Bill tpril I2...Archbp. CANTERBURY . 1 iihe r g,,,lutsse.t1. obt yxt,hi,

Rejected by tire

Lord's Day Bill April 21.. Sir ANDREW AGNEW. { he

Commons, 18th May.

Established Church May 20....Lord JOHN RUSSELL ..July 26.. 1 P;iszitil:t.11th Charitable .Trustees June 7 Mr. VERNON SMITH .. Aug. 1.. { RLI:;crittyAtubge.

'Rejected by the

Jewish Disabilities ....June 14...Mr. SPRING RICE ....Aug.15.../ Lords, 19th

August. Passed by the

Stamp-duties June 22 Mr. SPRING RICE ....July 26..1 Lords, 12th

August.

Imprisonment for Debt .June 30 Ld.Chan. COTTENHAM I Rejected by the

l Lords,11thJuly County Flections Poll 1

/June 30...Lord JOON R usszw.. Au 1 {Passed' 19th Bill August.

Passed by the

Customs July 16 Ir. P. THOMSON Aug. 4.. 1 Lords,10th Au

gust.

Posboffice Commis- }skaters July 16 Mr SPRING RICE ....AUg.S...{ Lords, 12th Ait-

Rejected by the

gust.

Next in order come the

IRISH BILLS.

Tule. Introduced. itc'lle;Lvedordi.Z Fate of the Bill.

Rejected

our Relief Feb. 9. .Sir R. MUSGRAVE { by the JC,owmemons, 8th Ditto Feb. 15.. .Mr. POULETT SCROPE.. Ditto.

Rejected by the

Municipal Corporations. Feb. 16.. .Mr. O lf 'LootErr

March 241 Commons,30th

lone.

Irish Constabulary .... Feb. 18.. .Lord MORPITH March 241 Pass" by the

Lords,10th May

Roman Catholic Mar-/ Feb. 26...Mr. LYNCH may 13..1 Rejected by the riages i.oTds, 4th Arrg.

Rejecteal by the

Irish Church April 29 .. Lord MORPTTH July 18..1 Commons, 2d 'then the meagre list of the August.

SCOTCH BILLS.

Tit'e. Introduced. By whom Introdnood. griller Fate of the Bill.

Edinburgh Poor-Rate ..March 14 .. Sir J. CAMPBELL May 30. 4 { Riejercdtpellztui4e

Scotch Court of Sas- 1

/March 30..Mr. J. A. MURRAY August 1. { Rejected by the slots Lonls, 9th Aug.

{ Withdrawn in

.§c0felt Universities ....June 61....Lord Macsouarre ... the Lords, 2d

August.

We close the list with the more celebrated

PRIVATE BILLS.

Received If Bata of the BIB. Title. Introduced. By whom Introduced. the Lords.

toneel and Biightonl I Rejected by the / Feb. 12...Lord G coaos Lawson June 30.1

Railway Lords. 4th Aug.

Manchester and Cho-) Feb, ,........ `,1.7 { RLejoecidteed, the shire Railway ., ...r... ILBRAHAM .... JUDO 21. 25bthyl July

{ Rejected by the Trinity Harbour Feb. 25,. .Sir A. Lima Hair .."' Commons, 8th August. Municipal Corporation} Feb 11 Act Amendment.... "

Voters' Registration ....Feb. 11..

meta }Feb. 11.... Mr. O'Coarism. Law of Libel Amend-

.. Lord Jour; Rtissem, —June 30. {P,atsusgefuis.t.15th tion IMarch 24.. Alderman WOOD Rejected by the Civil Offices Declara-

kug. 12 ./ Lords. 16th August.

1 Passed by the Loids, 17th May. With. drawn in the Commons, 12th Poole Corporation ....April 20...Mr. POULTER July 28

South Durham Rail.' March- 3.. Mr. Bowls June 30. Rejected by the Li cerpeol Docks Marsh 15.. Lord &mans {Rejected by the

Dundee Water-works ..March 29 -..Sir II. Pentrkm, Rejected9th byJuly the wet! • • 4 Lords,12th July

June J June.

'1" . 20 Lords,1

Commons, 24th

It will be observed, that though many of the bills have been formally rejected by the House of Commons, the Lords have been the real Destructives; and if we add the measures which they mutilated with intent to destroy, to those which found their last home in the House of Incurables; the account against the latter will appear much more formidable. In point of fact, though not of form, the Peers are chargeable with the loss of all the under-mentioned Bills—

The Stafford Borough,

Municipal Corporation Amendment,

Voters Registration, Civil Offices Declaration, Poole Corporation, Charitable Trustees, Jewish Disabilities, Imprisonment for Debt, Post-office Commissioners, Irish Municipal Corporations, Irish Church, Roman Catholic Marriages, Edinburgh Poor-rate, Scotch Court of Session, London and Brighton Railway, Manchester and Cheshire Railway, Trinity Harbour, Dundee Water-works.

Neither is the whole mischief done by the Peers comprised in the account of rejected measures. They have damaged many, which the Commons have reluctantly accepted ; and among them

the following— The Prisoners' Counsel,

Registration of Births, Marriages Celebration, Established Church, County Elections Poll.

The legislative annals of the country furnish no parallel to this slaughter and mutilation of bills sanctioned by the House of Com- mons. The cause lies on the surface. Formerly the Peers had little to do except to pass their own bills, the assembly styled Re- presentatives of the People being merely the Lords' instruments. But now that, for the first time, an effort is made to carry a series of measures really and truly for the People, the anti-national spirit and policy of the Peers is transparent. It is no longer denied by the Peers, that they regard the House of Commons, and every thing emanating from it, with jealousy- and distrust ; and the de- termination to maintain the oligarchical principle of vesting supe- rior power in the minority, is most offensively avowed by their chosen leader. The loss of almost every one of the bills in the long catalogue above printed, may be traced to the working of this policy. The Municipal Act Amendment Bill gave the Repre- sentatives of the majority in towns a control over public property; the Poole Corporation Bill punished frauds in elections, by which the minority were enabled to elect a majority of Councillors; the Imprisonment for Debt Bill made landed property—the mainstay of an aristocracy—liable to the payment of just debts ; the measures for reforming the Irish Church and Corporations recog- nized the claim of the Irish millions to a share in funds now en- grossed by the Orange fraction of the nation; and as to the Trinity Harbour, Dundee Water-works, and Brighton Railway Bills, (on the intrinsic merits of which we offer no opinion here, for the decision did not turn upon merits or demerits,) they interfered with the interests, alliances, and spites of certain Lords. Acting on the principle we have attributed to the Peers on the authority of their own repeated admissions, they could not consistently do otherwise than reject all the measures they have thrown out. Besides, their policy, as a party anxious for place, has been to thwart and trample upon the House of Commons,— to demonstrate the inefficacy of the Whig-Radical union to procure practical benefits for the country. They have succeeded—for the session : whether for their own ultimate good or evil, remains for the future to tell. All depends on the use which may be made of the lesson which the session has read both to Ministers and People. Much mischief has been done by the Peers; but they are nips solely blameable for the small results of the session. Lord COT- TENH AM'S Chancery Bill was contemptible, and we cannot regret its rejection. A glance at the dates in the table of Bills will show how lazily Ministers and Members did their work in the House of Commons. For instance, the Voters' Registration Bill, intro- duced on the 11th of February, by the Attorney-General, did not reach the Lords till the 8th of August! and the little Jewish Disabilities Bill was two months in its progress through the Commons, though patronized by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Lords, on the other hand, must take their share with the Tories in the House of Commons for the waste of time occasioned by the attacks on Mr. O'CONNELL. It was announced before the opening of the session, that the Raphael affair was to be its leading question ! Mr. O'CONNELL'S sale of Carlow was to be brought forward by a County Member of great weight and autho- rity in the House and the country, (poor Mr. WALTER, who backed out of it,) and the existence of the MELBOURNE Ministry was to depend upon the upshot. In this miserable display of party plotting and spite many valuable days and nights were

wasted. The only thing satisfactory about it was its ending in the ignominious exposure and defeat of the conspiratcrs.

Another, and perhaps the most distressing canse of the slovenly and inefficient mode in which public business has be( n proceeded with, is the enormous mass of private legislation with which Members have had to deal. Our list merely contains specimens of the few bills about whose progress and fate public interest was excited. As regards the great bulk, how they have been dis- posed of we cannot say, or by what means they were carried : but, judging from the proceedings which have been brought to light, we must believe that corruption to an enormous extent has been prac- tised in relation to those bills whose progress in Commit tees is veiled in obscurity. Merely to ascertain their ultimate fate, however, would be a work of much time and ineffective laboar. In looking -0 over the Vote-paper of the Lords, every now and then we perceive that some twenty or thirty Private Bills have received the Royal assent ; though their merits are quite undistinguishable, and their titles frequently give little insight even into their objects. On the 19th of February. there were eighty-six petitions presented for leave to bring in Private Bills. It is impossible that, with the best intentions and the utmost exertion, more than a small portion of the private business of the House can be properly transacted ; whilst the ill effects of the system on the conduct of public affairs are visible, in the hurry, confusion, and ignorance that strike every person attentive to the proceedings in Parliament, and in the listlessness and unconcealed disgust of the thirty or forty Members who are kept together at the fag-end of the session, to transact what is very often the most important and ought to be the most anxious portion of our Representatives' duty. Until Local Boards are established for the transaction of Private Bill business, there never will be any thing like decent performance of business of any kind in the British Parliament. The Legislature should have fewer matters to attend to, and the number of Mem- bers should be reduced. What is wanted for legislation is, a deliberative body of well-informed men, not a mob of squires and dandies.

Before we leave the subject of Bills passed and rejected, we must mention the two which have become laws with general satisfaction—the English Tithes, and the Stamp-duties. The first was carried by compromise. The existing clergy imagine that its operation will increase their income; and what need they care for posterity ? The landed interest see their advantage in the provision which protects future improvements (with the very questionable exception of new gardens) from tithes. Should the landowners, however, discover that they are paying too dearly for the prospective gain, the Tithe-Bill will not be a final measure. The Stamp-duties Bill was also an affair of compromise. The Tory journalists began to discern profit to themselves from the passing of the bill; so they quietly. forebore to repeat their wise saws about the respectability of dearness, and agreed with the advocates of cheap information to take the proposed reduction of the Stamp-duty. It is to the expectation of gain to the Tory newspapers that Nyb owe the ultimate passage of Mr. SPRING RICE'S bill through the LYNDHURST House.

A considerable portion of every session is passed in discussing motions which lead not to legislation, but not unfrequently are more useful than the bills. The following table will show the chief part of what has been done in this way since the meeting of the Parliament in February.

MOTIONS ON LEADING SUBJECTS.

Subject. When mode. fly whom mode. F Result.

Committee of Inquiry ap-

Carlow Election, pointed.y a egut t ilnt j.ntl oi rxes. Raphael versusiFeb. 11 Mr. HARDT

O'Couttql

Suppression of 1

Orange Societies , r Feb. 21....Lord JonN RtissELL , Mr. R treow Negatived, by 180 to 53.

.Lord CHANDOS Negatived, by 208 to 172.

Lord Brudenell's 1 Railway Profits .. May 17 Mr. Mottnisow Withdrawn.

Bele: ' 2'1 Ladies' Gallery . May 4 Mr. GaarrnEv BERKELEY. House refused to vote naetbt' if I °ii- 'Ma 31 M T D smilax Withdrawn. A ppoi III me nt .. y May 4 Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH . Negatived, by 322 to 42.

May .... r. T. LT

M /on the 10th August the Carried, by 132 to 90; but the money for the Gal- lery.

Balhit June 23....Mr. GROTE Negatived, by 139 to 83.

ON COLONIAL AFFAIRS.

Slavery Committee of Inquiry into Discontent of the wiLt.h.e. 1

yMarch 23—Mr. FowELL BUXTON ./ the working of the Abo- lition Act appointed.

East Indians— /Negatived, without a &si- May 14... .Mr. Calcutta Peti- t mon.

tion

Canadian Policy Aug. 15....Mr. HUME Withdrawn.

. The above list calls for little remark. The value of the deci-

SiOn against Orange Lodges, depends upon the zeal with which the intentions of Parliament are enforced by the Government.

With a Tory Lord-Lieutenant at Dublin Castle, Omngeism would tigaia be rampant. The very little attention paid by Parliament to Colonial affairs,

Taxation larch 24.

Military Fl, ,,, ging . April 13.. Pension List ' April 14.. Attend:owe of the Bishops in Par- }April 26.. liament

Agrieult Dig- } April 27..

tress . Mr. ROBINSON .Major FANC0URT „Mr. trsit,,1 affirmed on the 226 April, by 243 to 169. An Address to the King.

Ianswered by his Majes- ty, that he would take means for the suppres- sion of Orangeism. 'Negatived, Without a divi- t sion.

Negatived, by 212 to 95. Negatived, by 268 to 146.

awakens serious reflections. We question whether the House of Commons devoted time equal to that employed in arranging the squabble between Colonel TRENCH and Mr. WAsosr, in discussing the condition, present and prospective, of our hundred m illions of Colonial fellow subjects. This is an unnatural state of things, and affords another proof of the necessity of remodelling the present system of Government. Practically, the Colonial Minis- ter is an irresponsible despot—his subjects may be thankful when he is not an incapable one also. The following are the principal Public Committees which have sat during the session. Hitherto the advantage reaped from their labours has been small ; but we are disposed to anticipate consi- derable benefit from the adoption of the recommendations of Mr. Poinirrr THOMSON'S Committee on the manner of dealing with Railway and other Private Bills in Committees ; from Mr. CHARLES BULLER'S resolutions respecting the formation of Elec- tion Committees ; and we know that a mass of most interesting and valuable information may be expected in the Evidence of Mr. WARD'S Committee on Colonial Lands. All these subjects will furnish us with occasion for future remark.

PUBLIC COMMITTEES.

On who Motion Appointed. Lord JOHN Russibb Mr. EWART

Election Commit-1 f Feb. 25... tee Prisons March 11.

Joint StockBanks May 16...

Colonization, as connected with Poor-laws for

Ireland

of the House ; but until the time of meeting is changed from

Some efforts have been made to improve the internal economy February to October, the number of the Members reduced, and other extensive reforms adopted, little benefit will be derived from minor improvements. One great point, however, has been gained: the names of Members, voting on divisions in the whole House, are now, thanks to the tact and perseverance of Mr. WARD, regularly published in the "Votes and Proceedings" issued every morning under the Speaker's authority : but how stupid it is (with or without the Speaker's authority) to refuse to extend the practice to divisions in Committee, which are generally just,as important ! BUSINESS OF TIIE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Subject. When Introduced. By whom Introduced. Result.

Resolutions on y Referred to a Select Corn.. SelectComm it-} Feb. 5 Mr. E WART . 1 mittee.

lees Motion that no

public business Mr. E WART Negatived. by 233 to mem,. alter ele- j

should corn-Feb. 5 yen o'clock.... Divisions to be taken, and pub-

lished with the Feb. 18 Mr. WARD Carried. authority of the

Douse Resolutions for Compensation

to Officers of June 2.... Mr. Hums Agreed to, June 29th. the and House, Abolition of

Fees

We have selected a few of the more important out of the mass of the Dropped Notices of Motions. It will be seen that Mr. TENNYSON D'EvrscouRr allowed his motion for Triennial Parlia- ments to be pushed aside; and, to the shame of our Representa- tives be it spoken, the session has been allowed to pass away without a single discussion of the "question of questions," the Reform of the House of Peers. The subject which every real Liberal knows and feels to be the most pressing of any, has not once been regularly broached in Parliament; though out of doors it is constantly debated, and occupies the thoughts of every earnest Refo:mer. Is it possible that the House of Commons can pre- tend to represent public opinion, a bile such a question as that of Peerage Reform is allowed to remain in abeyance?

DROPPED NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

Subject, Day Fixed for By whom. the Motion.

To extend the right 01 Voting for Mem- Town-t'oimcillors in Parliamentary bers of Parliament to all Electors 01 Feb. 4 Mr. HARVEY.

Boroughs Repeal the Septennial Act March 22 Mr. TYNNYSON D'ETNCOURT. Abolish Clitacherates No time used.. Mr. WILK&

Reform the House°, Lords Julie 30 Mr. °Tont/Eta,.

In the foregoing remarks, some of the causes manifestly con- ducive to the unprofitable result of the session have been touched upon ; but we suspect that the principal source of evil is latent, and can only be removed by a change in the policy and tactics of the Liberals themselves. The Peers have gained courage in the perpetration of mischief from the shrinking of the Whig Minis- ters. There were symptoms of vacillati II from the first : Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not even copy Lord MELBOURNE in uniform boldness of tone, and adherence to principles, in his speeches. But the disposition to give way to the Tories on the Irish Muni- cipal question—to sanction what was unjust to Ireland and incon- sistent with the principle of their own measure—for the first time put beyond doubt the fact, that Ministers had no fixed plan, and that the Opposition were proceeding upon a regular scheme to make the Ministry contemptible, awl to exhibit them as ince-

Subject of Inquiry. Agriculture Arts of Design ....Feb. 9 Railways Feb. 23... Appointed.

Feb. 8 June 8 Result of the Inquiry. ( Three volumes of Evi- 1 dome, but no Report.

No Report published.

A series of Resolutitffis

. Mr. PoULETT THOMSON ... adopted by the Hoene,

{ 31 August.

1 A Report made, bult not I adopted.

. Lord JOHN RUSSELL No Report. .Mr. SPRING Rica No Report.

ReSolut ions and Evidtince Mr. WARD.. ........ reported, bat DIN yet I. printed. . Mr. CHARLES BULLER ....

pab!e of performing their implied contract with the Liberals. Then it appeared too plainly that the GREY policy of impossible conciliation—or rather, a negation of policy, which may be ex- pressed by the terms "killing time," " putting off the evil day," " trusting to the chapter of accidents "—bad been adopted by the MELBOURNE Ministry. A perseverance in that policy has brought the Government to the brink of dissolution. Is more experience of its consequences required to make Lord MELBOURNE sensible of its fatal folly ? If so, his Lordship is likely to have it. lie has been supported through the session ; but we know that many of the most disinterested of his past supporters have resolved to keep him no longer in a do-nothing position. Granting

that Mr. O'CONNELL, for Irish purposes—for the sake of keeping a Tory Lord-Lieutenant and Secretary out of Dublin Castle—

should remain his thoroughgoing partisan ; still, the Ministry is at an end on the day when the union of the Whigs with the Eng- lish Radicals is broken up. The Irish section of Liberals is far outnumbered by the conjoint force of the English and Scotch Reformers. As, however, there would be no occasion, so is there no wish, on the part of the English Reformers to withdraw their aid from Lord MELBOURNE, provided he take the onward course necessary for the preservation of his own character and the main- tenance of his position against the Tories. He is not called upon to say or do any thing violent. But he is required to form a plan of operations calculated to put down the Anti-Reforming Opposi- tion in the Lords, and to use an early opportunity of proclaiming his resolves for the satisfaction and encouragement of the Liberals.

The very announcement of such a determination would of itself disarm many of his opponents, who strike boldly only because they fear no hit in return. At the commencement of the session, when the Liberals hoped, and the Tories feared, that Lord MEL- BOURNE had a plan, Lvenn URST would not have ventured to de- liver such a speech as that of Thursday night ; which, however extravagant, and however coldly received, yet being assented to as an exposition of their policy by the Tory Peers, marks their deter- mination to follow the same line next session. They may be driven from this resolution, by the timely adoption of a manly policy by Lord MELBOURNE. Round a leader worthy of their confi- dence, the Reformers would rally in zeal and force as invincible as in 1831; and then Lord MELBOURNE might risk a new election as soon as he pleased. In default of his adopting this course, he must expect to see the English Radicals acting as an indepen- dent party next session, and frequently opposing the Du-nothing policy equally with the Obstructive. We hope there is reason to believe, that the majority of the present Cabinet, including its most useful and by far its most popular members, are not indis- posed at last to declare for the course necessary to preserve the union with Reformers and to keep the Whig party from falling into utter insignificance. Let the dissentient minority openly seat themselves on the Tory benches ; where they will become as in- significant, powerless, and unpopular, as STANLEY and GRAHAM.

No new star of brilliancy has arisen in the political firmament during the past session. Tile character of Parliamentary elo- quence is relieved from the charge of mediocrity only by two or three old favourites. O'Cosfeees's powers are undiminished; but his persevering and monotonous support of the Whigs has somewhat crippled their display. One or two of his speeches, however, have been superior perhaps to any of his former exhibi- tions in Parliament—with less of declamation and personality, and more of muscle and argument. Mr. SHEIL has proved him- self the most perfect rhetorician of the day. He is quick, bril- liant, sarcastic, and elaborate; but in the higher attributes of eloquence—in pathos, originality, and massy earnestness—he is and must always be O'CONNELL'S inferior. Mr. Roemice is wonderfully improved ; and has, by sheer intellect and energy, forced his way to a standing in the House, which once seemed hopeless. He is one of the very few Members who can be relied upon in a crisis to speak disagreeable truths, and state the naked fact, without conveying the impression, which clings to all Mr. HARVEY'S exertions of a similar kind, that he is actuated by feel- ings of personal spite. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, young, fear- less, and generous, has appeared to advantage on more than one occasion. The most finished speech of the session was Mr. GROTE'S on the Ballot. Nobody in or out of the House attempted to answer that perfect s.recimen of cogent and at the same time most persuasive argument. Mr. GROTE is remarkable for bring- ing philosophy and the most refined sentiments to bear upon the every-day business of life. Sir JOHN Homouss was formerly a man of mark and likelihood; but he appears, this session, to have subsided into the humdrum official. Sir ROBERT PEEL has ce- mented his union with the High Tory party. Compared with Lord LYNDHURST, be is a Liberal in seeming. Only as a professor of moderation is he useful. It is his business to catch dupes among the timid and trimming, or, as they like to term them- selves, " practical" men ; who have a dread that undisguised Ultra-Toryism might lead to civil war. Few, however, are now deceived by PEEL'S mock Liberality : it is known that he is bound, soul and body, to the Tory party,—who have thrown away the mask of Conformity, assumed by his advice and after his example. Of Lord STANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, the twin renegades, there is but this to record, that their bitterness has become more bitter, and that even the show of friendship is no longer kept up with Lord STANLEY by his former colleagues.

In the House of Peers, the Duke of WELLINGTON has per- mitted LYNDHURST to lord it in fine style, as we have seen. The

Duke is a bold man of action, and needs a talking lieutenant, unscrupulous because needy, and subservient from the hope of reward. Such a person is Lord LYNDHURST. He is not the leader, but the prizefigher of his party ; though, doubtless, he endeavours to gild over the degradation of his present employ- ment by flattering himself that he is really the captain. His employers also hope that they shall escape the responsibility of his reckless actions : but they too may find themselves mistaken. With all his fluency, hardihood, and dexterity, Lord LYNDHURST is scarcely a match in debate for the fine old Whig Lord HOL- LAND; who seems to have aroused himself from a long lethargy, to take once more a leading part in Parliamentary discussions. Lord HOLLAND has on various occasions, this session, brought his ready memory, experience in legislative forms, constitutional learning, and polished sarcasm, to the aid of his colleagues in the House of Peers. LYNDHURST has usually shrunk from a contest with one whose speeches cut deep, like the knife of a skilful

rator. But Lord HOLLAND has distinguished himself for 'scme- thing better than cleverness : reteandly he has skis 1 ferward

as the advocate of thoroughly Liberal pr nsiples in civil al d ecclesiastical government ; and it is much to his credit, that he alone in the bad House has had the courage to defend from calumny and vituperation the great leader of the Irish millions. Lord CLANRICARDE has distinguished himself by an unflinching de- fence of popular measures. He may understand that he has made himself formidable to the Tories, for he has earned the sneers and abuse of their Swiss. The Premier still maintains his reputation as a man of large views, and of vigour in supporting

them—in debate : at the close of the next session, may it be our pleasing duty to award him the higher praise of acting up to his principles!

In the comparative leisure of the recess, we shall take frequent opportunities of clearing up more fully many of the points which we have just now glanced at cursorily. Among the Parliamentary Papers, there are probably several which will repay the trouble of examination; though, in the hurry and confusion from which we have scarcely yet escaped, it has been utterly impossible to bestow attention on any but the more immediately pressing topics of the day.