The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-26 00:00:00

LONDON :
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1839.

A little amusing sparring took place in the House of
Lords last night between Lords BROUGHAM and MEL.-
MOU RNE, on the former presenting some petitions re-
ferring to lunacy, when he bantered Lord MELBOURNE
about the believers in the necessity for getting rid of
commercial protection being fit for a mad-house. Lord
MELBOURNE, however, stuck fast to his opinion, and
persisted in affirming that what he said was perfectly
true. We can only suppose that the Noble Viscount
has some extraordinary conception of the extent and
value of protecting duties, which other political philoso-
phers have never formed.
The Duke of Wellington's Estate Bill was read a
third time, when Lord BROUGHAM complimented the
Duke for his generosity.
Lord BROUGHAM declined to press for some returns
relative to the Canada prisoners, of which he had given
notice, while the case of the prisoners were under the
consideration of a Court of Law, but he protested
strongly against political offenders being mingled with,
and treated like, burglars and highwaymetr.
The Peers adjourned at an early hour, after receiving
a few petitions.

Mr. Ews took his seat in the Commons for Leicester.
The Great North of England Railway Bill was read
a second time.

Colonel PERCEVAL presented a petition from Sligo
against the appointment of Lord FORTESCUE to the Lord-
Lieutenantcy of Ireland.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in moving the House into a
Committee on the Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspen-
sion Bill, refuted a calumny of the Times relative to Lord
WRIOTHESLEY RUSSELL, and Mr. V. HARCOURT, with
Lord ASULEY, by their conduct and language, amply
confirmed the refutation.

On the motion for going into a Committee of Supply,
Captain BOLDE RO persisted in preceding Mr. T.
ATTwooD, in moving an amendment, touching the sup-
ply of great-coats to the Marines, notwithstanding an
affecting appeal which Mr. ATTwooD made to the
Captain, whether he would, as a gentleman and soldier,
interfere, with his great-coats, to stop Mr. ATTWOOD'S
Important motion relative to Russia.

After some little discussion the Captain withdrew
his motion, and Mr. ATTWOOD proceeded to unfold all
the terrors he feels at the might of the CZAR. The
Hon. Member made a long speech, in which he
preferred the Tories to the Whigs, and both
to the Radicals, who were the worst of the three.
He dwelt much on the danger to which the country
was exposed from Russia, and expatiated on her
power and our weakness. He concluded by moving an
address to her Majesty, to take efficient means to pro-
vide seamen for the fleet. No Member could be found
to second the motion, and the House went into a Com-
mittee of Supply on the Navy Estimates. Seve-
ral sums were voted, after Mr. HITNIE had
noticed the fact of the Hastings having
been placed at the disposal of the Queen Dowager,
when a ship, as the Honourable Member said, was
wanted to go to Vera Cruz ; and Mr. WOVERLEY ATT-
WOOD had brought the inadequate wages of the ship-
wrights in the dockyards under the notice of the
House. The Hon. Member was generally compli-
mented for the way in which he did it. Mr. WOOD
admitted that it was a subject of difficulty, and thought
it would be wise to revert to superannuation.
There was also a brief discussion on the propriety
of hiring transports, or employing men of war
as troop ships, but nothing of iportance was said or
done further than voting the money.
After the House had resumed, Mr. HonsmAN post-
poned his motion for returns to elucidate the statistics
of impressment.
The House adjourned a little before One, having been
occupied all the evening with the Navy Estimates.

By the arrival of the packet-ship Scotland, Cap-
tain ROBINSON, at Liverpool yesterday, we have
received highly important intelligence from New
York to the 7th inst. inclusive. The Report of
the Foreign Committee on the boundary question,
with the all founded upon it—which passed Con-
gress with a haste almost unprecedented—will be
found in another part of The Sun. Both docu-
ments will well repay the trouble of a care-
ful perusal. The Report evinces an anxiety
for the amicable adjustment of the question to
which we cordially respond ; but we cannot omit
observing, that either the friendly professions con-
tained in the Report are insincere, or the Com-
mittee has acted injudiciously in accompanying them
with assertions and declarations which amount to a
virtual pre-judgment of the question at issue.
Every acre of the disputed territory is assumed both
in the Report and the President's Message,
as belonging to Maine ; and yet Maine her-
self has
boundary da notr !determined where precisely to fix
This does not look as if the
United States Government was as averse to a war
yr-41511,s country as a just appreciation of the in-
terests of the two nations, a rational anticipation of
the deplorable consequences, and the conviction of
a high moral responsibility, would lead us to expect