TOPICS OF THE DAY.
PUBLIC BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THE motions and orders set down in the Speaker's paper are so numerous, that the 9th of June is the first day that can be found open. Ten motions have been announced for which no day is fixed, and which must, if brought on at all, come on after the 8th of June. The practice of assembling Parliament in February, is defended on the pretence that it is impossible to get members to attend earlier. We believe the pretence is without a shadow of foundation ; but, if it were true, since most of the real business of Parliament is discussed in a House of thirty or forty members, why not discuss that business deliberately in December and January, (for surely it will not be said forty members cannot be got together before Candlemas) instead of having it slovened over after ten or eleven o'clock, when the showy and useless part of the meeting for the night is disposed of, and all but the thirty or forty are gone to their private pleasures?
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