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LONDON :
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1839.

The- Royal assent was yesterday given to several
Bills, preparatory to closing the Session.
la att..wer to questions put by Lord STRANGFORD,
Lord MELBOURNE stated that the United States had
the best disposition to prevent attacks on Canada, that
the Craver:lntent of France was- anxious to put an end
to the blockade of La Plata, and that he hoped mea-
sures would soon be taken to settle the dispute with
France relative to Portendic.
The Bank of Ireland Continuance Bill, the Oysters'
Fisheries Bill, after a few words from the Duke of
WELLINGTON and Lord BROUGHAM, were read a
second time and committed. Other measures were
forwarded.
Lord BROUGHAM, after presenting petitions com-
plaining of the Grand Jury Cess (Ireland) Bill,
and for the repeal of the Post Horse Duty Bill,
moved for a copy of the London University Char-
ter, and took the opportunity to explain that he
had given up his own Bill on Education because he
wisJ,Jed the subject to be taken up by the Ministers, and
he recommended Lord Melbourne to take to his Bill
next Session. Their Lordships adjourned at an early
hour.

The only business of importance in the Commons was
to move for new Writs for Cambridge in the room of Mr.
SPRING RICE, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds,
and for Waterford for Mr. WYSE, who has been made
a Lord of the Treasury in the room of Mr. MORE
O'FERRALL, who retires.
Mr. WARBURTON made some observations on the
contract for conveying the West India Mails, which he
was disposed to blame, because the Ministers, in making it
for a period ofyears, have not considered the improvements
which are every day making in steam navigation, which
may make the contract most onerous and disadvanta-
geous to the nation. One person, he said, had been
offered 25,000/. for the share he held in the Company.
Mr. Woof) defended the contract, and the discussion
was not 'closed when the Usher of the Black Rod sum-
moned the House to the House of Peers, after which, at
a Quarter past Four o'Clock, it adjourned.
Th

,e substance of the charge made by Lord
LYNDHURST against the Administration on Fri-
day evening was, that the Ministers could not obtain
the consent 01 the Legislature to the measures they
proposed. To judge of that charge we must come
to some common agreement as to the extent to
which Ministers ought to control and influence
the Legislature. The real question is, how far the
Executive Government should exercise legislative
functions, and control the operations of Parliament.
Now though Lord LYNDHURST may have settled
this in his own mind, Mr. MAcA UL A Y justly stated,
in the debate on tne Ballot, that this was a ques-
tion, which, so far from being decided, had not
b ,en even mooted by any constitutional authority,
or any writer of eminence, and that it was and is a
new question, on which neither Statesmen nor the
public had either practically or theoretically expres-
sed or formed any definite opinion. A great Consti-
tutional lawyer like Lord LYNDHURST might
perhaps have been as well employed in examining
this question, and laying down the rules which
should guide the conduct of statesmen and the
opinions of the public, as in making a furious
party oration • but though such a labour would be
dignified and
useful, Aed might elevate Lord
LNNimuasTiitzuld not degrade a rival, and
his Lordship
s drl. by his nature to prefer the
malicious to the useft7
Under the. good old regime of the Borough-
mongers, such question
question
Aristocracy
,c-aunldd their arise, be-
cause, in fact, the
cialaredelyusurped the.
creat utrhees bothfunctions of the Commons
commanded the Ministry and commanded
Par-
liament, and what the Aristocracy could agree on
was necessarily performed by
Houses. The
Ministry, then, was the mere Organ of its will,
Government measures were the decrees of atii',de
Aristocracy, made known through the Ministers,
which the House of Coma:ons went throu.h
the farce of debat:ng and registering. The
question how far the Ministers should dic-
tate to the Legislature of the country is, there-
fore, strictly speaking, a new question growing
out of Parliamentary Reform and the establishment
of a partially independent House of Commons.
Lord 'MELBOURNE seemed in his reply to Lord
LYS URST to have caught a glimpse of this cir-
cutunce, for one of his grounds of defence was.
that i:iHslation was not the chief duty of the Exe-
cutive Government, it had the estimates to pre-
pare, the extent of the demi.idi for the public
service to consider, and the administration of affairs
to conduct. But neither Lerd MELBOURNE nor
!.,rd LYNDHURST made the smalles
t approach to '