NEWS OF THE WEEK.
PMILIAMBNT has naturalized and "established" Prince Ammer. For this purpose it was assembled before the usual time; and, having discharged the loyal duty, it manifests disinclination to take up the regu
lar business of the session. No Canada is yet announced ; when men talk of China, the Foreign Secretary assumes an air of mystery, and is either dumb or unintelligible; something is to be done with Joint-Stock Banks and the Currency-nobody knows what; the Scottish Kirk must be dealt with, but Lord 3Inimounssn admits that his puzzled Cabinet are at sea on that question. One leading measure, however, has been introduced: Baron LYNDHURST'S Irish Corporation Bill, gulped down by the Whigs, will become a law. More encouragement for the Tory Lords to insist upon controlling the Representatives of the People. Though somewhat stiff for a time, the P,eformed House of Commons may be reduced to pliability and submission to the higher powers. The crop of speeches has been plentiful, thongh the work done in Parliament is of small account. More of the Privilege brawl! Two great lawyers-Sir WILLIA3I FOLLETT and Selicitor-General Witsso besides men of lesser calibre, delivered learned dissertations on this subject on Monday. A third arose ; when weariest Members refused to
listen to the infliction any longer, and shouts of "Adjourn 1 " compelled Sir Enwsno SuctDEN to sit down. The debate, which hung upon a motion by Mr. DARBY to discharge the Sheriffs, teas adjourned; and filleC then we have neither seen nor heard of it. Peace be with its half-interred remains!
The Commons have consigned Mr. HowArtn, Srocaosse's attorney, to Margate-the intermediate custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms being dispensed with in his case. The consequence is, that Howsno resides in airy, spacious, comfortable rooms, while the poor Sheriffs are almost smothered in the Sergeant's cells. And this is by way of stigmatizing Howsun, (whose "contrition" on a former occasion was all a sham,) and testifying superior regard for the dianity of the Sheriffs. Mr. WAKLEY, the Coroner, is next in jeopardy. The Court of Queen's Bench has issued an attachment against him for refusing to attach the Sheriffs for non-payment to STOCKDALE of the money let led st ITsassuo's printing-office. The Coroner-Member has made: up his nand how to act in this extremity ; but he buries the secret determina tion in his bosom, and wont make the House his confidant. There are to be more motions and speeches on the question ; and when it will be 'settled" nobody pretends to foresee. Members have nibbled at the " Condition-of-England. question." SLANEY moved for inquiry into the eanses and remedies of popalar discontent. But worthy MI". SLANEY only succeeded in convincing everybody of his own incapacity to brindle a subject of which the pith eluded his grasp. Politics he purposely avoided; but descanted on the discomforts of filth and the salubrity of sewers. Cornelaws, the fran chise, and the protected vote, were put out of sight, while Mr. S1.ANEY talked twaddle about checking the consumption of gilt, Ile received noeordial support from any quarter. One Member ridiculed the notion of excluding polities from the inquiry ; another protested that the Com-laws must be included ; a third considered the motion as embracing too much already ; and a fourth declared that more harm than good resulted from appointing Committees, which raised expectations of
benefit never to be realized from their labours. Lord dons It tasaas,, unwilling to disoblige a Member whose votes are at his service, ap
peared to give Mr. 81.ssEy a sort of Ia itt titi encouragement, butt only Is .n.in.ry ..le nlannlIte abandon him. An amendment, to limit the t ti
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and mining districts, met with little favour, and was withdrawn, together with :1Ir. leassiSaV'S putty motion. This is not the way to grapple the Con.fition-of-England question, It is not by sending some twelve or thirties gentlemen up-stairs, with power to call for witnesses anel papers, or by grand speeches on
Sights','' that Parliament will perform thin duty. Let every 30' t, el•cry diSClIsSiell, the entire proceedings and spirit of the Legislature. aim at just legislation fbr the whe/e. people, instead of the exeltkive interests of individuals and elasses,-then will the t'ondition-ofEngland question be considered in eked and in truth, it ii hittlut prating of' it.
The' Bishop of Ex ram persists m attaching the sect milled Socialists : sad has persuaded the Lords to join him itt addreesing the Queen Is take measures for preventing the spread of impiety and immorality. Hie Right Reverend Father sets up the image of something very indecent, very impious, and very tbolish. end calls his produetion a Socialist. He pictures our sober, steady Enaland as in danger of being overrun by these monsters. On the good sense and religions feeling
of a " most peovle" Dr. Pilussa,ars has entail rid tattoo, but he deems highly of the law s efficacy in correcting an aberration of the intellect.
All experience is against the Bishop. To punish Socialists as such, would place the sect on the vantage-ground it seeks; while for such gross offences as Ile lays to their charge, the Statute-book teems with penalties. There is no need of new enitetinents, or of directing the law's thunder With extra rigour against the. Socialists. If we would have them remain harmless, and crumble to nothing. like the St. Simonists Its Frtinee-now almost forgotten-there most be no persecution for their odd notions, and eVell the less said about their morals the better.
Another of Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD'S Copyright Pills has gained a slippery footing in the I louse of Commons. There is little chance of the IllgaStire being carried this session ; butt smitimentnl speeches will be plentiful, and " vexatious" opposition provoke the learned Sergeant's wrath. Mr. WAHIWRTON is again in the field : and that he will not yield an inch of ground Mr. TALF0171ID must be well assured, front past experience of the Member fi,r Bridport's perseveresce. Both Houses of Parliament have voted thanks to Lord AUCKLAND and the Indian Army tic the brilliant success in A fahanietan. The Duke of Waissauros, while be hunted the plan of the campeien. freely allowed Lord. A is:also:1i the credit of concoming it. Sir Itonievr Plum, on the other hand, demttrred to the insertion of the Governor-General's name in the vote of thanks, and was disposed to question a eivilimas partici; ation in military honours. Respecting the polies. of the war, Sir Ronan:: was more cautious than the Dlike-thhboghu
eVell the Duke formally reserved his opinion on that point. Sir Romer wished to see the bill of costs-he wished to ascertain the capacity a India to pay it-before he sanctioned the policy which rendered so vast an outlay necessary. In all this, Sir ROBERT PEEL exercised a sound discretion ; though a Ministerial journal rails at him, and attributes his caution to the sore remembrance that Lord AUCKLAND superseded the Governor-General of' his LINVII 110111iDution. The Duke. however, has a nobler spirit ; his " moral calibre " is larger than Sir ROBERT PEEL'S. Few days have elapsed since Palm was the favourite of' these disinterested censors: now the Duke is highest in their estimation. One or other, it would seem, they must bedaub, though not exactly with " celestial flattery." A discussion in the House of Lords on the state of the Navy produced the usual assertions and contradieti:MS respecting the efficiency of the marine force. In this respect it differed little front the debates on the same subject last session. The Duke of WastaNcrox took the opportunity to administer to Lord Minsuornan a severe reproof for his neglect of Chinese effitirs; and Lord ELLEN1:01101,'ClI, referring to the Greenwich Hospital job. annoyed the Premier and the First Lord of the Admiralty by asking what Admiral liasiearsu's services hail been, and if he had ever met the enemy Neither could aver that the Admiral had heard a attn fired, save at a regatta or when tile men were prac
tising,: Ian what then Lord Miustounsia did not think that a sailor or soldier acquired his chief title to honour or emoluments by fighting:
