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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1339.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH brought under the notice of
the Peers, last night, the condition of the Hill Coolies
who have been carried to Demerara, and who are said
to die there very fast. Lord BROUGHAM adverted to
the destruction of life on the voyage, and spoke of the
blood-guiltiness of those who are concerned in this
nefarious traffic. That is becoming indignation in the
Lords, and we humbly share their feelings. To them it
must be a great consolation to know that, on this subject,
they are not partners in the crime—they do not ordain
it—it does not grow out of their enactments, but from
the avarice of other men—and they have only meddled
with it to suppress it. We have the same consolation
touching the Corn-laws, the victims of which are as
numerous, and they die as cruel deaths, as those of the
slave trade, and of transportation from Bengal to
Demarara. On this point, and on many other great
sufferings which grow directly from their Lordships'
ambition or avarice-dictating laws, they can have no such
consolation, and well would it be for them were there a
Lord BROUGHAM in the House to tell them, as there are
scores of men telling it to the multitude, that the blood-
guiltiness of dooming thousands of the people to the
long lingering death of starvation belongs to the Legis-
lature of Great Britain.
A debate subsequently took place on some questions
put by the Marquis of LONDONDERRY concerning the
war in Spain, which is remarkable for an able and elo-
quent speech made by the Earl of CLARENDON, lately
our Ambassador at Madrid. We shall, perhaps, here-
after advert to this topic, and only say now, that the
questions of the Noble Marquis were properly an-
swered.

The power of Magistrates became a subject of con
versation in the Lords as well as the Commons, and
Viscount MELBOURNE advised their Lordships not
to trust legal opinions given in debate, and not,
therefore, to trust the ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S op-
tion delivered in the House of Commons. The
LORD CHANCELLOR wisely would give no opinion, and
took time to inquire. On the judgment seat his dictum
.can only be questioned by an expensive appeal.
Tile Reduction of the Postage was partially dis-
nssed, and warmly espoused by the Duke of Rim-
atom:). We do not rely much on the estimates men-
tioned in the debate, and shall not therefore quote them.
The Canada Government Bill was read a second
time, and is to be discussed on going into Committee.
Several other Bills were forwarded without discus-
sion, and their Lordships adjourned, at a Quarter past
Nine, till Thursday.
In the Commons a brief notice was taken by the
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Of Lord DENMAN'S ignorance
I of law.

joAtiN RUSSELL
tdiscussion ensued on the propriety of Lord
proceeding with his Birmingham re-
solution before the other business, which, by the
almost utranimous feeling of the House, he was
allowed to do, thougliit was predicted that after
he had got the
vote for money, the House
which would be counted out,
actually occurred.
Mr. LEADER wished to resist the Noble Lord's
course, but was not
supported by the House,
which went into a Committee, voted in a hurry
10,000/. to establish a police force at Birmingham, and
allowed a Bill to be brought in and read a first time,
to carry the vote into effect. It is curious, so recently
as this town received a Charter, that no regulation
was then made by which a rate could be raised for
police. Mr. ATTWOOD stated that therew
a
body of Street Commissioners, amounting to 100, who
could could do it, and why they do not was not explained.
It is probable, however, that all the inhabitants do not
agree, and that the Street Commissioners and the Cor-
poration are, like the Chartists and the middle classes,
at open enmity. No valid objection was made to the
grant, indeed all parties seemed to concur in it. when
311411 we see a I;ke unanimity in reiressing a single
grievance?
After Mr. EWART had obtained some returns rela-
tive to our trade with Western Africa, and the House
had heard Mr. FRENCH move an Address to her
lAJESTY, to take measures for providing railway
communication the House was counted out at Ha—
Past Eight o'Clock.