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London, England, 1824-03-19 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOUEtNALS•

DAILY
Extracts front the Morning Papers, March 19.

[NEW TIMES.]
The Debate of last night in the House of Com-
mons was more amusing than important. Lord
John Russell deserves some praise for his intre-
pidity in bringing forward his promised motion
about Spain, when all the world is tired of the
subject, and all the predictions and expectaf.ions
of his political friends have been falsified and
disappointed.

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Consols closed at 94 for the Account yester-
day, and more business was transacted than for
the last few days. The private advises received
by the expresses are of a favourable nature, and
the Rentes were on Tuesday in Paris higher ; but
the political intelligence continues of the same
unimportant character as for some time past.—ln
Foreign Securities we have little to notice, as the
business transacted has been inconsiderable ; the
prices consequently remain without alteration.—
Some purchases were made in the New Assur-
ance Company's Shares at 15 premium; the first
instalment upon this plan is payable to-day, and
will place in the hands of the Treasurer an im-
mediate capital of 500,000t.—(Ibid.)

[MORNING POST.]
In the House of Commons last night, Lord
John Russell made his promised Motion on the
subject of the evacuation of Spain; for the pur-
pose, as he asserted, not to bring a charge against
his Majesty's Ministers, but to draw from them
some explanation of the policy which they had
adopted towards that country. Sir Robert Wil-
son took that opportunity, while seconding the
motion, to bring his own case before the House,
and to describe the services by which he had
obtained the Foreign Orders of which he had
recently been deprived. This he did at consi-
derable length, but with a degree of military
frankness which does equal honour to his he-
roism and modesty, as our readers will be able
to judge by the following specimen :—" One of
these Ordershad lwen for participation in a service
which (he would say it) was for daring enterprise
in the plan, for fortitude in the execution of it,
and for brilliancy of success not exceeded by any
thing that occurred in the course of the war."—
Now this is all very natural, but it appears to us
that the gallant (aur would have better con-
sulted his dignity if he had remained silent on
the subject. llis taking notice of the withdraw-
ing of his order might be considered by some
less acquainted with his contempt for distinctions
as a proof that he regretted their loss. Mr. Lit-
tleton wisely returned to the original question,
and considering his Majesty's Ministers entitled
to the confidence of the country, and no danger
likely to accrue from the temporary occupation
of Spain by the French armies, moved an amend-
ment to that effect. On this the House were
going to divide, not one additional voice being
raised in support of the motion of the Noble
Lord, when Mr. Secretary Canning rose and ex-
pressed his astonishment at the inconceivable
neglect to which a proposition brought forward
with so much of menace and preparation
scorned likely to be sacrificed. The Right
Honourable Gentleman then declared, that he
believed France to be at this moment anxious for
the evacuation of Spain, and that there was less
difference than Gentlemen seemed to imagine
between the views which France entertained to-
wards Spain and those which were supported by
tots country. In a vein of the richest irony he
then represented the military expeditions of the
Gallant Officer (Sir Robert Wilson) and a cer-
tain Noble Lord, as having thrown great impe-
diments in the way of neutrality, and showed
that they had compelled his Majesty's Ministers
to offer explanations, when they should only have
thought of asking them. The description given
by the Right lion. Secretary of a Noble Volun-
teer's journey- to Falmouth convulsed the House
with laughter. The Motion was ultimately ne-
gatived, and the amendment Agreed to without
a division.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
As the present Session is likely to give birth
to an inquiry into the state of the practice of
Courts of Equity, with a view to the most effec-
tive means of preventing the delays and extraor-
dinary expences of proceedings in those Courts,
the public must naturally feel anxious to be in-
formed who the individuals are to whom they are
to look for the redress of those grievances of
which they have so long complained. We do not
profess to be in the secret as to who are to be the
Commissioners charged with this most important
duty, but rumours have reached us on the sub-
ject, and though not prepared to state affirma-
tively who the Commissioners ought to be, we
think we may, without exposing ourselves to much
difference of opinion, state who they ought not
to be. We will not presume to assert that the
Lord Chancellor, under other circumstances,
would not be a proper person to be at the head
of such an inquiry, but we think we may venture
to doubt whether, under existing circumstances,
he ought to preside on this Commission. His
Lordship, as Chancellor, has been at the head of
the Profession for upwards of twenty years, and
whatever may be the cause of the grievances now
complained of, it seems to be admitted that they
had not reached so intolerable a height when his
Lordship was raised to his distinguished station.
We mean not to infer that his Lordship has been
'wanting in the discharge of any of his various and
arduous professional duties, but we refer to the
fact to shew that the evil has grown up, if it did
not originate, in his Presidency, and thence eon-
elude, that as his Lordship has not taken a single
step during twenty years, almost daily witnessing
the evil, to check its progress, he is not the indi-
vidual upon whom reliance can be had for its
utter extirpation.—Should it be said that the
Chancellor's time has been too much occupied in
administering the law to allow of his directing his
attention to the amendment of it, allowing the
apology, we would then ask whether his Lord-
ship is likely to find time to review a mass of
grievances, the growth of many, many years, if'
be could not find time to prevent that growth by
checking it even in a single instance ? lu this view