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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 11140.

- Both Houses met yesterday, a little before two o'clock,
for the purpose of proceeding in state to Buckingham
Palace, to congratulate the QUEEN and Prince ALBERT
On their marriage. There was a great attendance of
Peeii and Commoners, and on this occasion the Tories
seemed most anxious to outdo their opponents in de-
monstrations of loyalty. The House of Lords particu-
larly exhibited a vast display of Conservatives.
The House of Lords adjourned at two o'clock till to-
morrow.

The Commons met again at five o'clock, when the

SPEAKER read the reply of her MAJESTY to their Ad-
dress of Congratulation.,
Lord ASHLEY gave notice of a motion for the 3d of
March, to appoint a Committee to inquire into the
working of the Mills and. Factories Act.
On the motion of Sir RO➢ERT PEEL, to which an
amendment was moved by Lord JOHN Russuu.,
Returns were ordered for all Pensions on the Civil List
granted since the Ist of January, 1828, specifying the
names of the parties and the amount of Pensions
granted,. together with the total amount of Pensions
granted in each year.
Sir R. PEEL then, according to notice, moved for
Returns of the number of Marines employed on the
coast of Spain, and the amount of stores furnished to
the Spanish Government, which were granted.
The Earl of LINCOLN then appeared at the bar with
the reply of the Duchess of Kent to the Address.
Mr. PENDAIIVES brought up the Report of the Select
Committee on Election Petitions, and gave notice that
he would bring the subject before the House this day.
In answer to a question from Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
Lord PALMERSTON said the papers relative to the dis-
putes with China would be laid on the table in the
early part of next week.
In answer to another question from the Right Hon.
Baronet, Lord PALMERSTON said ho could not state
the nature of the relations between the Shah of PERSIA
and Lord AUCKLAND, lint he bad reason to believe that
there was no ground for alarm on the subject.
The question of privilege was then, for the twentieth
time, brought forward, and Mr. T. HOWARD, the son of
the attorney in the suit of STOCKDALE against HAN-
SARD, was called in and examined, whereupon the
-ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that he had been guilty
of a breach of privilege. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved
as an amendment, that it is expedient that a Joint
Committee of both Houses be appointed for the pur-
pose of securing the freo exercise of a power
so essentially necessary. A number of speeches were
made on the occasion, none of which excited any inte-
rest except that of Mr. WALLET, in which he attri-
buted the illness of the emancipated Sheriff to good
living and a short neck ; and recommended, as the best
way of maintaining the privileges of the House, to put
all the delinquents on short diet. On a division the
motion was carried by a majority of 100. On the next
division, Mr. T. HOWARD, jun., was committed to the
custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, by a majority of 93.
Mr. PEARSE, the clerk of Mr. HOWARD, was then
called to the bar, and, after some debate, was committed
to the custody of the Sergeant•at-Arms.
Mr. Fox MADLE obtained leave to bring in a Bill
to amend the County Constabulary Act.
Returns were ordered on the subjects of Municipal
Corporations, Canada, and Merchant Seamen.
Mr. LEADER then presented a number of petitions in
favour of a free pardon to FROST, WILLIAMS, and
JONES, and was proceeding with his motion when he
was interrupted by Mr. F. MatiLE, and after some con-
versation the further discussion of the question was
postponed till Thursday.
Sir JOHN C. HOBHOUSE then made a motion for
the purpose of including Major-General WILLSHIR3
and the officers engaged in the capture of Kelat, in
the vote of thanks to the Army employed in the mili-
tary operations to the west of the Indic!,
The House adjourned a Quarter-past Twelve.

Amongst the notices which stand on the order
book of thet House of Commons there is a series for
Thursday, concerning the number of the constituents,
given by Mr. I-1 UM E. They are intended to bring
down the returns which have before been made to
embrace all the registrations of the past year. We
do not anticipate that they will show any large in-
creases of the constituencies. As far as our experi-
ence has gone, the operation of the rate paying
clause, on the registration has tended to diminish
the number of electors. Persons in general are
very careless about a right which may only be ex-
ercised six years after it is acquired. At present
there is much political apathy, and a want of every
kind of stimulus to make men anxious to obtain a
vote, exercising which may bring them into colli-
sion with their landlords, or deprive them of
customers. The registration itself is an irksome
mode of acquiring a prospective and valueless, or
even troublesome right, and we should not be sur-
plised to learn that the constituency had diminished
in numbers.

But supposing it to be 5,000, or 10,000, or
100,000, more or less, than existed when the last
returns were made, what effect will that have on
the great dispute betwixt the represented and the
unrepresented ? The exclusive principle which now
exists will not be altered. The strong line of de-
marcation by which the Reform Act sepa:atcs the
slave class from the master and free class, will not
be weakened, or made to embrace a wider sphere.
The returns may show to a nicety the extent of the
disfranchisement, but will not inform the public of
any danger, nor provide a remedy. They will de-
fine the disease, not cure it. Fur that we require
a very different method, to apply which both the
wish and the courage are wanting.
We by no means disparage Mr. HumE's
exertions.- We know no man who has rendered
more useful and more disinterested services,—no
man who has less considered his individual gratifi-
cations, and more thought of the good of the
public, in all his unwearied and unrewarded labours;
and we know no man who better deserves the title
of a patriot. His late speech on Mr. DUNCOMBE'S
motion has gained for him praise from many of
those who were opposed to him. At the same
time, we must say, that statistical details are less
required now than moral considerations. Statesmen
may con over the less than one million of electors,
the almost Five millions of grown males in the
empire, without being roused by that to see the
storm that ovethangg the land. That will come
from men's feelings and thoughts, which require
therefore to he studied, as well as their numbers
and their possessions. It is more necessary to
know what the unerdianchised meditate than
what they do. We might have ton times as great
a proportion of unenfranchised peOple in the
empire, and if they were all contented, be exposed
to no danger. If the whole constituency were only
5.000, instead of almost a million, or if all the
posers of the Government were concentrated in the
hands of a single person, and the people were, one
and all, reconciled to his administration—if they
had confidence in his talents and his virtues—if they
believed him, as the Peruvians believed MA NC A
CA PAC, to be a demi-god—there need be no appre-
hension of internal commotion under a despotism.
But when there is wide-spread discontent coexisting
with. freedom of discussion—when the masses, so
far from reprding their rulers as demi-gods, con-
tinually speak of them as very ignorant, interested
men—when they treat the comparatively numerous
constituency as usurpers, and loudly express their
mistrust in them—then the number of the unen-
frmchised is a most important element for the con-
sideration of the statesman. These higher and
important moral considerations, connected with the
thoughts -and-'--feelings of the people, give to Mr.
HUME'S statistical tables an immense value.

We are indeed aware that they will show no in-
crease in the number of voters, and no deduction,
Therefore, from the vast number of those who
point to their exclusion from the franchise as a just
cause of dissatisfaction. We have ourselves very
little confidence generally in the wisdom of states-
men ; but never was it more at fault than when it
was supposed that the Reform Act, which so dis-
tinctly excludes all below the ten-pounders from the
franchise, and so marks them as slaves, should con-
tent the people, or be a final settlement of the re-
presentation. It is impossible that such glaring
injuries can be permanent ; and Mr. HUME's re-
turns, by showing its cast extent, while the moral
considerations we have alluded to demonstrate its
vast mischief, will prepare the way for further
reform,

Mr. Alderman HARMER is a rich man as well
as proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch. Hi e s on
the road to the Mayoralty, and next in succession
to the Chair. We think he is a proper person
therefore for the bigots to attack on account of his
opinions, and they accordingly stigmatize his cha-
racter, and try to injure his property. They have
already assailed Lord MELuoußNiz and Lord
NORMA NBY for their too free opinions, and Mr.
Alderman HARMER justly follows as the link be-
tween those noblemen and Mr. PARE. The Times
and its correspondents, by attacking the Alderman,
show a proper sense of indiseriminate justice, and
are tesolved that no class shall escape the bigot's
censure. We rejoice at that, for it will make the