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      w "P ARLIAMENT was prorogued on Tuesday , JL \ with " warm acknowledgments" from the QuejPn for " ° l an ( ^ assiduity" in public duties daring : the session . It was a session during which a larger proportion of bills has been thrown out than in almost any on record ; during which members have talked about great practical reforms , Lave quarrelled over the practical methods of affecting those reforms , and have left them undone . * If Her Majesty had given to Parliament her warm acknowledgments" for words and ¦ worry , the gratitude might be due for the work done . As it is , the speech makes the largest boast it can of the principal measures that have received the royal assent . They are enactments beneficial to the Executive , to trade , and to those who go to college or to law . The improvement of the Coast Guard , and of the police , smooths the way of the Executive . Cambridge University is slightly improved—we cannot say " reformed . " The County Courts are further improved —a roal advantage to the public . And the principle of limited liability is extended , though still with untoward restrictions , in the act for regulating jointstock companies . This is the work done : how long a list of projects for all kinds of improvement , save political improvement , represents the measures abandoned or lost ! Of these the ltoyal speech makes no mention . Hkk Majesty also tells the Lords and Commons that they have nobly answered the appeal made to them for the means to carry on the war ¦ with energy and vigour . The Commons have supplied the means in millions of taxation , the country has supplied the men , the Covernment has kept to itself , and to tho governing class , the advantages of military commissions with only slight relaxation for the benefit of tho working soldier ; and we have yet to ascertain that the speech is true , when it tell . s us that " tho objects for which the war was undertaken have been attained" —unless , indeed , those object .- ! were falsely stated to tho public . Already liussia , is contesting tho observance of tho treaty of peace ; she lias not surrendered to Turkey the fortresses of Ismail and Ueni ; hIm : has not evacuated Kars ; she has once more taken possession of tho Crimea--formally surrendered by Sir Wii . i-i . vm Cojdiungiton . So Parliament is dismissed for the season . It

      has even during the last few days undergone a change . The Right Hon . Edward Strutt having been created Lord Belper—partly to compensate him for being shifted about when his place in the Government was needed—he has been replaced by Mr . Charles Paget ; who , at the hustings , talked moderate liberalism after a good set fashion . The best part of his speech was that where he contended for the right of Manchester to make experiments in education separated from religious teaching ; but the new member for Nottingham will not materially alter the character of the House of Commons . ~ S Ye must go a little further in our choice of candidates , we must raise some more stirring questions , before we can expect the people to arouse themselves for the purpose of altering the character of the House of Commons . Indeed , it is a question whether we shall be able to do so until the suffrage be considerably extended . At Nottingham a people ' s man offered himself in the person of Ebn'kst Jokks : the show of hands was for him ; the poll of the qualified electors was so certain to go for Mr . Paget , the middle-class man , that the Chartist loader judiciously declined to stand . From the experience of the last session , however , when internal political questions were entirely shelved , we may conclude that the class in possession of political power does not intend to concede any extension of the suffrage until the misconduct of the members appointed by the present fractional suffrage makes the bulk of the people angry . Every extension of the suffrage , aincc those statutes which took away the right of every freeman to a voice in the election of the representatives , has only been extorted by something like a resolution in this country , and it seems that our Conservatives are bent upon compelling us to keep up with untoward custom . As our soldiery is disappenring in the Crimea , it is appearing on the great parade-grounds which have become a new feature in the scenery of England . AMershottwas the theatre , on Wednesday , of one of the grandest military displays which the people of this country have ever witnessed , —or rather have hoard of , for the people were prevented from witnessing the display for which they pay . Tlio . stage-manager on those occasions is General Knoi . i-ys , a court-Holdier who dijstingui . shcH himsulf by arrangements that keep tho general public at , an enormous distance —so fur oil" that they cumiot really seo tho proceedings . It i . s evidently held that tho classes which cannot afford to ride

      on horseback have nothing to do with 4 hese matters . Such a notion is the more to be regretted , since , upon the whole , the public shows a strong sympathy with the Queen ' s desire to bring out the military qualities of the Englishman , and there is pleasure as well as amusement in the smile with which John Buix sees the first lady in . the land riding about with a general ' s plume of feathers on her head or a general ' s pair of epaulettes on her shoulders . Whatever her ministers may advise , Queen . Victoria is manifestly preparing the British , army for greater efficiency in active service . What service ? The question is practically important . In France also the soldiery , which has been disappearing in the Crimea , is reappearing on its native soil , and there it finds an important occupation . The Emperor Napoleon is forming a new army for a specific purpose—it is called an " army of observation , " and its purpose professedly is to watch the frontiers of Spain . Why ? The Emperor cannot anticipate any invasion of France from that distracted country , and , in order to ascertain what practical purpose he may contemplate in the army , which is constantly increasing in its numbers , we must see what is going on . within Spain itself . Here is chronic confusion . O'Donnelf . has not managed his coup cVetat with anything like the decision and completeness that crowned the coup d \ tat of Louis Napoleon with such infamous success . There has , indeed , not been apparently the same indiscriminate slaughter of an unoffending populace , but there has been slaughter , and in numerical amount probably the Spanish slaughter exceeds that of Paris , as it has also taken place in a far larger number of towns . But O'Donnulx had not acquired such complete command over the army ; he had not procured so well constructed an agency in the different provinces ; and , above all , Madrid is not Spain . Saragossa still holds out ; other towns in Granada keep the royalists at bay ; in one or two places the . Generals of the army have been compelled to grant an armistice . Hero and there one reads of a General who has been arrested by the insurgents . The Governors of various municipalities have- been superseded , in some places the Captains-General have been superseded ; yet we do not learn J & ffxf }' ;;^ all tho . successors have taken tho piacgrof . tifujf ; " superseded men . Tho municipality in ^ jJlaqljic ^ ';(¦ has been abolished ; martial law , remi ( tod in tho' *?; - *•*'•'" . ! ' * ' ' i ' . I .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02081856/page/1/