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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The letter of " Constitutionalist" does not suit us. Prob.
ably it should be scut to the journal to which it is
addressed.

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LONDON :
THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1539.

Tha Lords did not meet yesterday.
In the Commons, Lord ASHLEY signified his inten-
tion of opposing, by all decent means, the omission of
the silk factories from the operation of the Factories
Bill,

Mr. RICE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to regu-
late the duties on soap, to which he said all partie—s
meaning the manufacturers—assented. The bulk of
the people know nothing of it.
The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought
up. Mr. HOME, on the proposal of a vote for public build-
ings, expressed a hope that the Royal Academy would
be turned out of the National Gallery, which was con-
sidered very hard on the Academicians.
Some conversation then took place about a petition
presented by Mr. FIELDEN, on the subject of the Poor-
laws, in which that gentleman's good wishes for the poor
were more apparent than his discretion.

Mr. LABOUCHERE, in reply to a question, stated that
the complete emancipation of the slaves in the Mauritius
had been quietly effected. The statement was con-
firmed by Colonel BROWNRI6G.
The Hill Coolies then moved the compassionate bowels
of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and the Under Secretary could
Igive him no other consolation than that they had suf-
fered very much on one estate in Demerara, in conse-
' quence of the neglect of a medical man, though there
WAS much exaggeration in the reports which had gone
abroad relative to their mortality in the whole of De-
merara. The philanthrophic care of the blacks cost
Sir JAMES and his like nothing, and therefore they in-
' dulge it ; to relieve the Hill Coolies, or the factory
Coolies at home, the hand-loom weavers, the over-wrought
. children, &c., by the abolition of the Corn-laws, would
lower Sir Jamrs's rent-roll , and in the luxury of acting
honestly at home, he cannot afford to indulge.
The Ecclesiastical Districts Bill, the Soldiers' Pen-
sions Bill, and the Highway Rates Bill, were severally
advanced a stage, after a brief discussion ou each.
The Postage Duties Bill went into a Committee, and
glad are we to see it making progress. The CHAN-
! CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is favourable to affix-
; ing a small stamp to the letter, but he is appre-
-1 hensive that the use of such stamps may lead to forgery,
against which he is to provide as far as he can. The
paper-makers and stationers, he said, were satisfied with
his explanation. The Bill went through the Commit-
tee without opposition. Several other Bills, as if the
House was anxious to make up by its haste for the
time it wasted at the commencement of the Session,
were forwarded, inclUding the Shannon Bill, and the
Birmingham Police Bill.
Lord JotAN RUSSELL moved for leave to bring in
a Bill to enable the Justices of the Peace in different
places to establish efficient constables. The Noble
Lord explained that it sometimes happened that the
Justices were unable to provide for the peace of dis-
tricts by not having sufficient constables; and this Bill
would enable them, each in his sphere, we suppose, to
levy a little army of his own. The Noble Lord made
a long speech in support of the measure, but all his ar-
guments ought to have been brought forward in the
beginning of March at latest. We see that the
Noble Lord has not forgotten the Home Secre-
tary, by whose concurrence the Magistrates are to act.
Mr. Honons hoped the duties of the constables would
be defined. Mr. D'IsaAELI opposed the Bill stoutly,
and declared that it would effect a social revolution in
the country. The CHANCF.LLOR. of the EXCHEQUER
thought more favourably than before of the measure
from Mr. D'lsaAELl's opposition, which he took as no
index to the sentiments of the Tories. He is right.
Mr. DISRAELI is not a Tory but a democrat, but he
wants to see tle-democrats in the ascendancy before he
declares himself. The Tories will all like such a mea-
sure. There was a little sparring in the middle of the
debate between Mr. Fox MAULE and Mr. WAX..
LET, while at the close of the debate Mr.
DISRAELI exhibited some temper. The Bill, how-
ever, was not effected by either, and it was, without
opposition, ordered to be brought in. We shall
have plenty of new laws at the close of the Ses-
sion, and, instead of doing nothing, it will be found that
the Parliament has done more this Session, and has
effected greater alterations in the Constitution, than
in any Session since the Reform Act was passed. The
House adjourned at a Quarter past Twelve.

Mr. BARING WALL, who has been called on
by the Tory Papers to resign, because he has on
twso or three occasions voted against his party, has
just published a pamphlet, " Thoughts on Par-
liamentary Independence," which we have read
with pleasure. It is high time that some Members
of 'Parliament, and high time that all the Journals,
began to think for themselves, and should not run in
deep-worn ruts of Whig and Toryism. We call our-
solves a reflecting people, and in matters of national
policy, which so materially affect the public wel-
fare. we all at the same time pride ourselves in fol.
lowing one or other of two systems of policy, of
both which this, if nothing else is certain, that they
were fashioned and adopted long before the present
circumstances of society came into existence, or
could possibly be conjectured. What Statesman cf
a
the days of PITT
Ox foresaw our present
condition ? We reproach those with some bitter-
ness who shut their eyes to increasing physical
knowledge, and who pertinaciously
systems of chemistry, astronomy, and
Yl' aodadbhoetarenyt,owtlitioicsiel
in their youth were
generaloYun d i
aceredited. But
their partial justification is t
and instinctive belief that the hn
.the general
is always the same ; and the errporyssicaf the l
worldold
interpretation of its phenomena, may authorise
a doubt of the new one. The mora
l or social
world, however, is undergoing a continual
trans-
formation. It is growing—it is in process of creation
and if the adherence to an ancient scientific sy
tem be blameable, it is much more deserving of -
re-
proach rb be the blind followers of a system of
policy which was framed without any knowledge of
the present social world. We are always glad,
therefore, when we find a Member of Parliament
getting out of the worn ruts of any ism, because
he is convinced it is no longer safe to run in them.
On this growd.we hailed with much pleasure the
manly'and sensible speeches of Mr. GrssoN ; on
this grAnd we welcome to the banner under which
we ourselves serve, the present deserter from
partyism.
Some of you, says Mr. Wall, (his pamphlet as-
sumes the shape of a letter to. the Electors of Guildford),
may think me vacillating in politics, " unstable as water ;"
la
I wish to convince that lam not so; and that al '

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