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London, England, 1838-01-18 00:00:00

CORN AVERAGES.

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended Jan. 0, Is3B, made tit from the Returns of the
Inapectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per
Imperial Quarter.
Wheat s2s. lid. Oats
Barley.... CSe. 10.1. I Rye
IXPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX vrzEirs
PRECEDING.
Wheat s2s. lid. Oats
Barley:. ...... Vs. Is. Od, Rye
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
Wheat ..... „.. 345. fid. I Oats
Barley ...... ... ISs. 44. I Rye

LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1331.

DEA.TII OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

We extract the following from a Brussels Paper
received this mottling :--•••
BRUSSELS JAN. 15.-It was reported in this city yesterday,
that the King of Prussia died on Friday last after a long ill-
ness, and that the news had been brought by a courier.

The Houss of LORDS did not meet yesterday.
In the Hocsa of CosnioNs several petitions were presented,
praying the House not to give its sanction to a war with Ca-
xr-da. One presented by Mr. HALL, from Marylebone, prayed
the House to refuse supplies to the Government for carrying
on an unholy war with Canada.
Mr. WAK.LET, who also presented a petition from Fins-
bury dcprecatiug war with Canada, gave notice that on Mon-
day he would present a petition, praying for mitigation of
punishment in the case of the Glasgow cotton-spiniers.
Lord J. RCSSELL presented her. Majesty's answer to the
Address. It will be found in the Parliamentary Report.
Lord MORPIETN said, in answer to inquiry, that he intended
to move the second reading of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill
on the 6th of February.
Lord Joty4 Resssu. then proceeded to move for leave to
bring in the Bill of which he gave notice the preceding even-
ing, to make provision for the temporary Government of
Lower Canada. For the details of the Noble Lord's notable
measure we refer to our Parliamentary report. The Assembly
'a to be summarily;,suspended, and the Governor-General,
with a Canadian Council, is to perform the work of pacifica-
tion, and of giving plenary satisfaction to the aggrieved
colonists I I
The House divided, when leave to bring in the Bill was
carried by a majority of 198 to 7 1
It seas then agreed to, on the motion of Lord Jos), Rus-
situ., that the House do adjourn till Monday.
Mr. Hums moved for certain papers relating to Canada, to
the production of some of which no opposition was offered,
while others on a division were refused.
Mr. GROTS presented a petition from Mr. J. A. Roebuck,
in which that Gentleman stated that he was Agent for the
House of Assembly in Lower Canada, and prayed that he
might be heard at the bar of the House in argument against
the Bill then pending about the Canada'.
After a few words from Mr. Waluav and Mr. Wasavg-
roN, both of whom supported the petition, Lord Jowm Rus-
sun consented to afford an opportunity for moving, on Monday,
that Mr. Roust:ex be heard at the bar, previously to his mov-
ing the second reading of the Bill. The House adjourned, at
a quarter past one o'clock, till Monday.

After a long and very animated debate, the Minis-
terial Bill for the tranquillization of Canada was read
a first time in the House of Commons last night.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL undertook to explain its leading
provisions to the House, in which he succeeded so
indifferently, that Sir ROBERT PaEL was satisfied
there were not ten Members present who did not mis-
apprehend the entire drift •f his Lordship's observa-
tions—s. statement of the Right Hon. Baronet which
was responded to by Mr. HUME. The Noble Lord
said that the object of the Bill was to empower the
Governor in Council—the Council not to be limited
in point of number, but requiring for the discharge of
business only the attendance of five members—to pass
any laws required for temporary purposes during the
suspension of the Constitution. Here the Noble Lord
should have stated that he took leave of the Bill alto-
gether ; instead of :which he went on to explain
the future policy of the Government, as if it really
was embodied in the measure then before the House.
Assuming the provisions of the Bill to be such
as are here reported, we have no fault to find with it,
provided Ministers feel themselves strong enough to
carry it into full effect. Lower Canada is in a state of
insurrection ; the constitutional channels for the ad-
ministration of justice are already closed ; and the pro-
visions of the Ministerial Bill will soften the rigours of
martial law. If, then, Ministers can calculate upon a
force strong enough to make the power thus conferred
upon the Governor in Council respected and obeyed
by the Canadians, the Bill cannot be passed a moment
too soon ; whereas, if the Bill is to be backed with no
greater display of physical power than accompanied
the coercive resolutions, it will be the signal for a
' revolt from one extremity of Lower Canada to the other.
The Government should adopt no measure which it is

not prepared to carry out with an energy calculated to
silence every whisper of disaffection. Where the ques-
tion is one of peace or war, the most straightforward
course is always the wisest.
But Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not confine himself
to the Bill before the House. His Lordship reca-
pitulated the heads of the Ministerial plan for the final