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NOTES FOR THE MONTH. 
Tue prorogation (at last) of both Houses of Parliament, on the 28th 
of July, has left the landowners at liberty to look to the getting-in of 
their harvest, and the lawyers to attend their no less profitable “ duties” 
on the autumn circuit. The event, too, has been a grateful one to the 
editors of the newspapers ; who, towards the end of every session, begin 
to be ‘a weary’ of the dense dark column, and to cry with Macbeth, 
« Bring me no more reports—let them fly all!” And to the Parlia- 
mentary reporters it is deliverance from the land of Egypt !—who, even 
from the Ist of May, regularly curse Mr. Hume a hundred and fifty 
times a night, and threaten physical force upon the uprisings of Dr. 
Lushington, or Sir James Mackintosh.* 
The session, although lengthy, has been more marked in the deyvisial 
of business than the disposal of it. One of the measures to which the 
country looked with the most anxiety—Lord Wharncliffe’s Game Bill— 
was lost. The Currency question does not appear to be yet finally settled, 
and a report exists that Mr. Peel will resign his office upon it—a report 
which, it is hardly necessary to say, we trust is without foundation ; 
since the loss of Mr. Peel’s services at the present moment would be a 
matter of infinite disadvantage to the country. And the deliberations 
of the Finance Committee, of Mr. Brougham’s Commission on the 
State of the Law, and the Committee of Police, will not be in a shape 
for consideration (at the earliest) before next year. 
In the mean time, the address from the throne, which accompanied the 
prorogation, though satisfactory as far as it goes, contains little intelli- 
gence that is conclusive or material. In fact, upon foreign affairs, it was 
scarcely possible that any information could be communicated of a defi- 
nite character. The clouds that arose six months since in our political 
horizon, have not burst; nor, on the other hand, are they dissipated. 
Nothing has occurred materially to increase the chance of a continental 
war ; nor any thing to diminish the hazard or possibility of it. Russia, 
in spite of some sharp fighting, and a threat of the plague, on the part 
of the Turks, is advancing, steadily, and not very slowly, in the direction 
of Constantinople. The King of England’s speech formally recognizes 
these hostilities, as “ undertaken by Russia, on her own account, and on 
grounds unconnected with the Treaty of July, 1827.” In a few weeks 
more, the Porte, which already seems inclining to a belief that insolence 
is not strength, will be contented, by abandoning all her claims on 
Greece, to purchase the aid or the mediation of the European powers. 
And, whether, when this interference appears, the Russian monarch 
will be content to retire from his conquest, upon such indemnity as 
France, and Austria, and England may think it safe to award him, is 
the point upon which the question of peace or war must turn :—which 
* There are particular speakers in the House of Commons who are always unpopular in 
“ the gallery ;”” and among these, especially, are Sir James Mackintosh and Dr. Lushing- 
ton. Mr. Hume is an awful bugbear towards the close of an evening ; but there is a prac- 
tical purpose in what he says, and he is not “ classical’’—he does not declaim! But the 
right hon. ex-judge, and the learned civilian, when they rise, “‘ leave hope behind.” For, 
from the first, youmay make sure ofa “ set speech,” no matter what the occasion is, or what 
the subject. And the last, though irregular enough in his style, has only to be entrusted 
with a coal tax petition, and out there inevitably rushes a gurgling torrent at the length of 
twenty minutes, about every topie, and upon every question, but that before the House. - 
