The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-18 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, MARCH 16. —ln the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States-General, yesterday, a Royal Message
was received, with a project of law and explanatory memoir,
on expropriation for the public benefit.
These documents were referred to the Sections, after which
the following letter was read by the clerk :
" To the President of the Second Chamber of the States-
General. _

" Sir,-1 have had the honour to receive your letter of the
1 I th, with an extract from the Journal of the Secoi:::! Cham-
ber, dated the 10th instant, according to which the Chambe,
resolved to apply to me respecting a petition of Mr. Lipman,
advocate at Amsterdam, complaining that the King's Commi:-
sioners had voted, at a late election of two members of the
Chamber, in the Assembly of the Provincial Esfatei of North
Holland. .

" As the Governors of the Provinces were acquainted by
me ye-terday, by his Majesty's orders, with the desh e that
they should henceforth make no use of the right which they
enjoy by the existing regulation, to take part in the voting in
the Provincial Assemblies at the elections of members of the
Second Chamber of the States-General, I must consider the
object of the petition in question as having fallen to the
ground; at the same time I take the liberty of observing that
the seconding of the Royal resolution of the Bth of June,
_lB9O,
prevents me from complying with the resolution of the Cham-
ber in this case.

The Min'ster of the Interior,
" DE KOCK."
After very animated debates on various motions that were
brought forward, it was in the end resolved to ask the Minister
of the Interior for further information.—,Dutch Papers,
March 16.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is,
we regret to hear, suffering from influenza at Kensington
Palace, which compelled his Royal Highness to keep his
bed on Tuesday.
EMBARRASSING MODE OF DESCRIPTION.—
It may be well to put young persons on their guard
against adopting one form of expression, which more
frequently, perhaps, than any other leads to hesitation
and absurdity, and which arises from attempting corn-
parisons before tha object of comparison is decided
upon. Insteid of the convenient description very
high, very low, extremely rapid, remarkably beauti-
ful, &c., wo hear, Oh 1 it was as high as I don't
know what; it was as rapid as—any thing. The
moment the little word as is uttered on each side of an ad-
jective the mi=chief begins. It was as dark as dark 1
I was as warm as could be. Then (in another form of
speech) exagg:rations are sometimes resorted to for re-
lief: I ran like—lightning ; he roared like—
thunder ; it rained.—cats and dogs; I was tired--
to death. Yet these absurdities are less embarrassing to
the speaker than the comparisons first noticed. If
at once hardness and adamant be thought of ; a
minute flamo and a glowworm ; a welcome stranger
and the ing sun; or in more familiar matters, rough-
ness and a file ; smoothness and glass, &c., &e. ; com-
parisons may be easily and sometimes very expressively
made. But hurrying into as as is another affair. The ex-
qusite declared that the soda water poured out for him was
as flat as as flat as—,—a board 1 A lady complimenting
her hostess at tea table, exclaimed that actually the coffee
was so fine, it was as clear as—.a bell 1 Thus a clearness
of effect upon the ear was applied to a description for the
eye. And a similar absurdity was committed by the lover
eulogizing to his mistr•ss the brilliance of the moon, which
made the evening as light as—really as light as—a cork !
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