Sir Robert Peel's management rivals that of Mr. Lumley: seldom
has the season before Easter been so short as this has been, seldom so well filled with work done. We speak not now of the merits of the several performances, but of the amount of the labour accomplished, talis qualis. The Commons have a very full score to display: The Budget has been discussed. They have done their part in settling the Income-tax and the Sugar-duties. The Tariff has been put into shape for discussion, with little prospect of much ulterior change ; and thus the important remission of the duties on cotton' glass, and auctions, is virtually determined.. Railway legislation has been assiduously forwarded, and, it may be gathered from the poverty of the complaints, in a way that is satisfactory, as things go : the House have laid down a plan of forms for bills ; they have arranged a method for passing bills through Select Committees with expedition, -Chong& not without needful scrutiny ; and a multitude of measures awe before the Legislature. Nor have the Lords been quite idle : 'besides same minor but useful measures, the bill for removing some Jewish disabilities has been sent down to the `Commons. Are the ..rouse still to pine, next August, for the dilatory gun ; or does this gence really promise a shorter session?
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