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influence which might enable Ministers to induce
Ammar/6k members of that House to say Aye or
No, when their consciences and common honesty
would oblige them to an exactly contrary vote.—
Mr. Peel and the Marquis of Londonderry appeared
exceedingly angry at this unadvised candour on the
put of Mr. Robinson. " When rogues quarrel,
honest men get their due," but this rule, like all
others, is open to exceptions, and the useless lumber
of the Post Office (the Marquis of Salisbury) is re-
tained by the vote of the House of Commons, fur
the express purpose of increasing in that House the

influence of the Crown—we arc glad, however, to
observe, that another opportunity will be allowed
the members to review their decision, and by re-
versing it to redeem their characters with their
constituerts. Lora Normanby on Thursday; night
declared his intention to bring the subject again
before the House, and his full reliance on ultimate
success. The motion of Mr. Creevy on Thursday
night for a Committee to inquire into the duties at-
tached to the Board of Coutroul, with a view to a
reduction of the Commissioners, met a similar fue ;
but this cannot astonish any one who will look im-
partially at the constitution of that House which
airogates to itself the title of the Representatives of
the People—every dad shews more and more the
nccessi!y of a Reform, and we are of that number
that would rather the House should be reformed by
Acts of Parliament, than by a rebellion of the people
driven to desperation by the enormities of their
rulers. Reform must and will be had—if it be not
obtained without violence the House of Commons
will have only itself to blame.

THE DIAMONDS—Many obscure allusions have I
been made to the subject of the sum of 70,0001.
which it was said was intended to be charged to the
coronation expences—the following we believe to be
a fair statement of the facts:—llis Majesty pre-
sented, some time ago, to the Marchioness of Conyng-
ham an elegant diamond collar—at a party given
at the Pavilion the next evening Lady Francis
Conyngham, the Marchioness' daughter-in-law, ap-
peared with the collar on her neck—the King said
he intended it for the decuratioa of the person of
the Marchioness, who replied, that she considered it
more appropriate to Lady Francis, and that she
wanted a thastoNso Srumacusli—the latter article
was therefore procured and presented, and the bill
for the two baubles, amounting to 70,0001., sent
into the Treasury. Lord Liverpool immediately
wrote a letter, in which he stated that " In the pre-
sent time of cavil at expenditure, he could by no
means countenance such a payment from the public
funds, but the demand must be met from the privy-
purse"—this letter arrived at an inauspicious mo-
ment and was reserved, as it is supposed, until a
propitious opportunity should occur for the COM.
munic4ion of so unpleasant a document.--l» the
interim, however, a second application was made at
the Tncasury for payment, and the Earl of Liverpool
went immediately to Brighton, where finding his
letter bud not reached its destination, he protested
against any intervention betwecn his Majesty and
his Ministers, and in consequence of Lord Liverpool's
sternness on the subject, Sir Benjamin Bloomfield's
dismissal teuk place—it is but justice to both parties
to add that his Majesty intimated his gracious in-
tention to continue his salary, to which Sir Benjimin
nobly replied, that if his services were no longer
required, he could have no possible claim to be paid
fin. them. Sir Benjamin is succeeded by Lord
rancis Conyngham, a younger sun of the Mar-
chioness of Conyngham !!!

By the ship //onto., arrived at Baltimore from
Buenos Ayres, we have the following:—
The surrender of Callao was produced by a scar-
city of provisions among the garrison. The garrison
is said to have amounted to 6 or 800 invalids. Forty
thousand stand of arms have fallen into the hands
cf tht, Patriots. At ytesent Guido is the attx;