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the Legislature. There have besides been seve."
ral Select Committees long and diligently em-
ployed on various inquiries essential to the
welfare of the realm, especially those appoint-
ed to investigate the general state of Ire-
land. Upon the Members of both Houses in-
deed, hut particularly on the Members of the
House of Commons, the labour of the Session
has been unparalleled, perhaps we might say ex-
cessive. Such a mass of private business never
before, we believe, came under the consideration
of Parliament, nor was disposed of with more
attention and dispatch. It is therefore to be
presumed that the rest of the Session will neither
be very protracted nor very momentous. The dis-
cussion of the Roman Catholic Bill, the discussion
on the CornLaws,theChancellor of the Exchequer's
Budget, and a few other subjects will, of course,
excite much interest. GenerAlly speaking, how-
' ever, we think the heaviest duties of the Legis-
lature have been already discharged, and that
the period succeeding the Recess will be mostly
occupied in perfecting what has now been deter-
mined on, and finishing off the additions and im-
provements which have been made to the fabric
of our prosperity and power—of British great-
ness and universal happiness.—The adjournment
of the House of Lords is to the 13th, that of the
Commons to the 14th inst.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The intelligence received yesterday in the
Dutch and German Papers is highly satisfactory.
The pacific disposition of Russia is proved by the
arrangement just concluded between Mr. Strat-
ford Canning and Count Nesselrode, for the ad-
justment of the differences between the two
Powers, as to the boundaries of their respective
dominions OD the north-west coast of America.
A Convention, it appears, has been signed, by
which the limits and rights of each are accu-
rately defined. Concerning the affairs of the
East, nothing definitive seems to be yet known,
though it may, we think, be safely inferred,
from the whole aspect of the political horizon,
that the independence of Greece will be finally
recognised, without the annexation of any con-
ditions unacceptable to the Greeks themselves.—
The members of the Holy Alliance view with no
friendly eyes the establishment of a new State,
in disregard, or, to speak more correctly, in con-
tempt of their wishes; but they must conform to
the actual circumstances of the day, and if they
cannot make the new Government exactly what
they are desirous it should be, they must even
suffer it to be what it will. By the ex-
tract we have given from the Brussels Oracle,
it appears that the measures lately brought for-
ward by Mr. Huskisson are already beginning to
produce the most favourable effect on our trade
with the Netherlands. By the steady persever-
ance of the British Government in extending the
operation of the liberal principles of their com-
mercial system, all doubt will soon be removed
with respect to their sincerity, and foreigners
will be induced the more speedily to imitate
their example. How much more wisely, then,
has the surplus of the revenue been applied to this
purpose than it would have been to those modes.of
partial and domestic relief which an unsuccessful
attempt has been made to stir up the people to
demand. The general prosperity of the civilised
world will be promoted by the free intercourse
which the nations are now cultivating with each
other; and England, as the most commercial of
them, will necessarily participate most largely in
these beneficial results, that will accrue in more
or less degree to all.

(THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
The report, we noticed some days since, that
Associations are forming in France to resist the
insatiable demands of the Emigrants, has also
found its way into the Brussels Papers, as will
be seen from the extracts under that head. The
report is plausible enough, and the necessity of the
Association is apparent from certain speeches made
this Session. In these speeches, the holders of
what is called national property are designated by
the title of robbers, and the epithet has sunk the
more deeply in consequence of the design which
it discloses. In fact, some of the Emigrants
have called the project of indemnity a sort of
hush-money to induce them to postpone their
full claims ; but leaving them the right to bring
them forward at a more convenient period. The
effect of such intemperate words, at a period
when the nation is called upon to pay a thou-
sand millions to the party from whose ranks
they have issued, may be easily conceived,
and this indemity scheme, which was to
close the wounds of the Nation, is likely
to rip them open, and set them bleeding anew.
It is fortunate for the Emigrants that they
have the bayonets of the Holy Alliance at
their service, or they would run the risk of being
sent on their travels again ; and it is equally for.
tunate for them that they have, in Count Villele,
a man who consults his own judgment, and not
their passions, in managing their interests. Yet
their hatred of this Minister is only inferior to the
contempt in which they hold the feelings of the
great body of the people; but woe to them should
it be in their power to gratify this hatred ! He has
mainly contributed to procure for them the
triumph they now enjoy ; and in trying to ap-
pease their clamours, and, at the same time, tran-
quillize the public mind, his situation is no bed
of roses. His difficulties too, as well as his
labours., appear to. be properly appreciated by
the Allies of France, who have probably retained
him in power, in opposition to the wishes of his
party, in spite of Court intrigue. In return for
this support, he keeps down the military spirit
of the French ; and his policy, as it respects
Foreign Powers, is decidedly pacific. It remains
to be seen whether he will succeed quite so well
in conciliating opinions at home, and, above nII,
in keeping within some kind of bounds the itn-
predent spirit of his party. He has hitherto suc-
ceeded beyond expectation ; and, therefore, much
may be expected from his future efforts.

[HORNING CHRONICLE.]
We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday,
and the Elate of Wedne day's date. The trial
of: Forte has 'terminated by his condemnation to
fortedlabOur for ever, to ciposure and degrada.