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LONDUN, S.ITURDA T, FEB. 15.

Is the absence of any scheme of legislative
action deliberately adopted and publicly announced
by her 3I tarrtv's Ministers, the short discussions
of miscellaneous topics which commonly arise on
Friday evenings daring the session promise to
form for the present the most interesting portion
of the proceedings of Perliernent.

In the House of Lords last night the new ope-
rations reported to have been undertaken by the
Government of the United States for the obstruc-
tion of the Harbour of Charleston wero brought
under notice by Lard STANNOPL. Lord RUMMELL
was unable to give any official information
on the subject, and refined to the remonstrance

he is known to have made when the main channel
was blocked up, and to Mr. SZWARD.ri explana-
tion of the intention of his Government. From the
quiet, businesslike way in which the new operation
has been reported in some of the best Sew York
papers, we fear that there is no room to doubt the
fact that Maffit's Channel has been treated like
the main channel. Having taken pains to ascer-
tain the real state of the case when a few weeks
ago the harbour was reported to have been " her-
" mstically sealed " and " for ever blotted
" out," and having expressed much satis-
faztion on finding ,that the best of the
several entrances to the harbour had been pre-
served, we shall not conceal the regret and
disapprobation with which we observe a return
to the use of the stone fleet. The Ame-
rican journalists blind themselves by sophistry to
the real character of this barbarous act, and are
angry at being told that it is one against which
foreigners have a right to protest. But it is the
duty of friends whose position enable* them to take
• calm view of the iieetion, to remind them that
the right of a belligerent to suspend the commerce
of neutrals by a lawful blockade is one so hui ful
that the public opinion of the world barely tolerates
it, and that to extend it by operations tho injurious
consequences of which must in any case endure
long after the legal termination of the blocks le,
is not the part of a Government which has formerly
distinguished itself as an advocate of a reform of
of the laws of war, nor yet calculated to increase
the forbearance of neutral nations.

Lord Dcro►r\ur brought under the notice of
the Peers the act of the Luau CH►\IBERLAIN in
permitting the managers of theatres who hold his
license to open their houses, as their rivals, the
music-halls, casinos, and theatres licensed by the
magistrates, already do, during a season observed as
sacred by a part of the Christian Church. Lord
SVI.NEV defended his conduct on the ground of
erenhandod justice, but explained that neither on
Ash Wednesdays nor on Good Fridays would the
theatres under his regulation be opened. Why
should the L PRI. CHAMBERLAIN have anything to
do with the theatres f Let the Legislature except
from the general liberty, besides Sunday, those days,
such as Good Tiiday, which in virtue of their
associations command the respect of the com-
munity, and Clot leave the rest to the law of the
land and the police.

The reluctance of the Belgians to make a com-
mercial treaty with this country, as they have
done with France, and their desire to sell us ad-
mission to their markets in return for a large sum
of money paid down, in the form of a capitalization
of the Scheldt dues, a subject which was brought
forward by Mr. Foams., the member for
Bradford, intmduced to the House of Cow-
men' a complaint often heard out of doors,
of the want of a stronger representation of the
interests of trade in the Foreign-office. Lord
l'sultiorros had the satisfaction of stating that
negotiations with Belgium for a commercial
treaty are in progress and promise well. On the
influence of the representative institutions of a
country upon its commercial policy, and the modi-
fications of diplomatic action which fol'ow from the
necessity of cousidting the feelings and prejudices
of parliaments, the noble lord made some observa-
tions which if not novel were just and to the point.
He denied, however, that the Foreign-office was not
w,ll c,oistitiitcd to give effect to the commercial
hiteresta of the couutry, and declared that it was
enalded to do so by the clew connexion it main-
tained with the Board of Trade. Henceforth,
therefore, if Chambers of Commerce find aught to
complain of in the Foreign-office, it will be
understood on the authority of the Putman that
the fault lies in the personal and not in the or-
ganic constitution of the department. The noble
lord vindicated the French Treaty from the
groundless charge of having caused the distress at
Coventry, and paid a deserved tribute to Mr.
Coam►x as the negotiator of the French Treaty.

GREAT Onnomy EurnoN.—ftiorims PRocren-
37c*. —The j.. 11 took place jeeterday, sad we receive by
abeaMe telegram the follow* embers ss the close of the
p 0: atsPotio, ; Ilemege, 436; majority 20. The
brief Wearer. speaks of terrible rioting, of Mr.
Ides .s hotel heieg compisaely gutted, mid of the street.
Wing tors up. Tb. Ilea *km who were seat for in the
morning, were, it is said, half murdered. Many men received
serious injuries, as.. of widei are reported as almost
Total.

NATIONAL EDCt'ATlnle4ttrir•!, IRMA ND. —The
Commimineers of National Education are about to anininate
four nindi lair. to commie for one vacant place in ths class
of eul.ia*pm tor* of national *shoots. NOM but members of
tb.• Roman slouch are eligible I. eampete for this
Tlir timinatines will be add le Detain, under
the ilireetioe of the Lied Merwlee Oillembeisears.—Cirit
Burin UtizAttr.