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LONDON:
FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1841.

The Lords appear to have suspended their own busi-
nes ; last night, to listen to Sir R, PAL. They adjourthd
after the presentation of some petitions, and crowded to
the House of Commons. We noticed there Lord
HAnnownv, Lord lIADDINCTON, Lord ASHBURTON, and
a great number of other Peers, who left the House when
Sir R. PEEL concluded. It was only to hear him that
their Lordships were curious. They certainly had not
so spicy a treat as the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet
on the Sugar Duties, for his motion last night had no
clap-traps, no jokes conned over in his closet, no con-
scious misrepresentations, no assertions to tell on the
House, and to be, if possible, glozed over, or kept from
the country.

Soon after five o'clock the SPEAKER called on Sir R.
PEEL ; but the impatience of the House to hear him was
delayed in its gratification by an llon. Member asking the
President of the Board of Trade what he had done about
the shipwreck of the William Brown. Members seem
to think legislation quite omnipotent, and soon we shall
have Acts of Parliament to put a stup to shipwrecks and
provide against the loss of any more Presidents.
Mr. LABOUCIIERE answered the foolish question by
saying that the William Brown was not an English
vessel• _

Mr. MARK PHILIPS then asked Sir ROBERT PEEL
whether he had received any communication which made
him in his own mind believe that he had misrepresented
the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester to the House
of Commons ; and as Mr. AsawouTH had not sent the
letters he addressed through the newspapers to Sir
ROBERT, the wily Baronet was able to reply that ho had
received no communication whatever on the subject. The
" no, noes" of his party, when he was about to proffer an
explanation, cut the matter short, and prevented the
Right Hon. Gentleman from completely exposing himself.
Sir ROBERT PEEL then moved his resolution that the
Ministers do not possess the confidence of the House,
and that their continuance in office is at variance with the
spirit of the Constitution. The RightHon.Baronet stated
his case clearly and almost concisely, and, as he said at the
end, without any personal or party asperity. He first
showed, by the recent votes of the House of Commons
and by some of its former votes, that Ministers did not
possess its confidence. He then showed, at considerable
length, referring to the cases of Sir R. WALPOLE, Lord
Nonni, Lord LIVERPOOL, the Duke of WELLINGTON in
1830, and his own case in 1835, that the Ministers of the
Crown, since the establishment of our present constitu-
tional, government under the house of Hanover, had always

thought if necessary to resign when they had lost the cor.
fidence of the House. The case of Mr. PITT was not ana-
lagous to the other cases, or the case of the present Minis-
ters. Ile had never submitted any Measures to the House ;
he was not obstructed in legislation; but the House
thought his appointment was caused by undue influence,
and, therefore, they refused even to allow him to submit
measures to them. The Right Hon. Baronet also refer-
red at great length to the consequences of Ministers re-
taining office after they had lost the confidence of the
House. "It was their weakness," he said, "in the
House, their loss of the confidence of the House, which
made them oscillate between two parties, now attempting
to govern on Conservative principles, afterwards making
concessions to appease their Radical friends, which had
plunged the country into its present financial embarrass-
ments." The Right Hon. Baronet alluded especially to the
Post-office revenue, which had been sacrificed to appease
the Liberal supporters of the Ministers. The Right Hon.
Baronet quoted the authorities of Mr. BURKE, Mr. Fox,
and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, whom he complimented highly,
to show that the course of the Ministers was contrary to
the spirit of the Constitution ; and towards the conclusion,
he warned the House that the Ministers were endanger-
ing the prerogative of the Crown. He referred, as an
illustration, with some emphasis, to the division on Mr.
DUNCOMBE'S motion, which was only decided in favour
of the prerogative by the casting vote of the SPEAKER;
and Sir ROBERT complimented the SPEAKER very highly
for his conduct. The Right Hon. Bart. boasted that he had
always expressed his opinions explicitly on constitutional
questions; and he affirmed that, his opinions being known,
it was not necessary for him to make any explanation as
to what he would do. With respect to financial and
temporary difficulties he gave no opinion whatever. To-
wards the end of his speech he expressed something like
regret for his speech on the Sugar Duties, and apologised
for it on the score of the heat of debate, declaring that he
always meant to be calm, argumentative, and reasonable.
The speech was without any burst of eloquence, plain
throughout, and it elicited fewer cheers than the Right
Hon. Baronet's speeches generally do from his supporters.
The Right Hon. Baronet spoke for nearly two hours,
and on his concluding his speech, the motion was read
from the Chair.
Lord WORSLEY spoke honestly, and said, because he
differed from the Government on one point, he could not
conscientiously withdraw his support from them, after
the measures which they had brought forward since Sir
R PEEL left office in 1835. He felt more justified in
this decision, because the Right Hon. Member for
Tamworth had given the country no intimation what
policy he would adopt on the great questions which now
agitated the country.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER, the other Member for Lincoln-
shire, expressed his surprise at the speech of the Noble
Lord, as he distinctly understood him to say at the great
meeting at Lincoln, held the other day, that as the Go-
vernment had overthrown the agricultural interest, he
would do what he could to overthrow the Government.
Lord WORSLEY in explanation, said that although he
withdrew his support from the Government on the Corn-
law question, he had never intimated that he would
withdraw it on any other question.
Sir J. HOBHOUSE, who has rarely spoken lately, showed
symptoms of reviving patriotism, and after analysing the
speech of Sir R. PEEL, concluded by saying that whoever
might be in office, the measures proposed by the Govern-
ment must eventually be carried, and become the law of
the land. Mr. D'ISRAELI praised Sir R. PEEL, and de-
nounced the present Government for attacking the House
of Lords, the House of Commons, and the rich and the
poor alike.
Mr. T. B. HOBHOUSE reminded the Hon. Member for
Maidstone that he was the last man in the house that
should attack the Government or any party for incon-
sistency, after his declarations when he stood for Wy-
combe, and when he carried down to that place two let-
ters from Mr. IlumE and Mr. O'CoNNELL in his favour as
a Liberal candidate. He praised the conduct of the Govern-
ment and trusted that, whether the present motion went
against them or not, they would pursue their measure
relative to the Corn-laws.
Mr. LIDDELL praised Sir R. PEEL for his conduc in
bringing forward the motion, and trusted it would have
the effect of driving Gentlemen opposite from office.
After some remarks from Sir H. FLEETWOOD, Mr.
WALTER, and a good speech from Mr. MACAULAY, on
the motion of Mr. S. HERBERT the debate was adjourned
to this day.
The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and
the House adjourned at One o'Clock.

The charge made against the Wliigs by tyc
Tories is, that they mean to dissolve the Parlia-
ment, which the Tories say is unconstitutional.
At the same time it is admitted by the organs of
the Tories that were. Sir R. PEEL in office he
would dissolve as soon as he conveniently could.
Both parties are agreed, then, on the necessitli
and the propriety of dissolving the Parliament,
and all the objections raised by the Tories apply
only to a dissolution by the Whigs. Poor disap-
pointed men, they lack office. They want the
power which is now in the hands of the Whigs,
and then they would do precisely as the Whigs
propose to do. In and out makes all the differ-
ence. The people of England, however, will not
be contented with that distinction, and they in-
quire with earnestness why that is unconstitu-
tional in the Whigs which would be constitutional
in the Tories ? When Mr. Fox opposed the dis-
solution by Mr.PITT, he did not want to dissolve
the Parliament—he would not have dissolved it
if he had had the power. In that circumstance
lies all the difference between Mr. Fox's conduct
and Sir R. PEEL'S, and Sir ROBERT can with no
face condemn his rivals for proposing to do what
he himself only sighs for the opportunity of doing.
In fact, only the half-informed Journals of his
party object to the dissolution. He did not say
one word last night against the presumed inten-
tion of Ministers to dissolve, though he referred
to it. He acquiesces, therefore, in the principle,
that Ministers may dissolve the Parliament,
though he makes objection to the time of their
doing it, and to the topic—the Corn-laws—on
which he presumed they are to make their ap-
peal. That is a question, however, for the public to
decide, for Pro-Corn-law men will take one view,
and Anti-Corn-law men another. As Sir ROBERT
said, the subsistence of the people is at stake ; it
is a most exciting subject, and no one can tell
how the electors will decide.

No person can, in general, say that Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL is a bold man : we believe that the
world will be inclined to say, from his perilling
the aristocracy, on a resistance to the repeal of
the Corn-laws, that he is a very rash one. Be-
tween the subsistence of the people, and the pre-
servation of the landowners, there cannot be a
choice ; and if they will stand in the way of the
people being fed, they will be destroyed. Sir
ROBERT PEEL has taken a rash step. to try and
oust the Government on a question- which will
enlist the bulk of the people against him and his
partisans.

A farewell entertainment was given on the
11th of this month, at Malta, to Sir R. STOP-
FoßD,by the Officers of the Mediterranean Fleet,
when the venerable Admiral made use of expres-
sions towards Sir CHARLES NAPIER, which we
are sure every man in the country will read with
regret. Sir ROBERT STOPFORD claimed all the
merit of the successful operations on the coast
of Syria to himself, and said that had Sir CHAs.
NAPIER not been present, others would have
been found toj perform the duty. We have no
doubt there are many Officers ,in the Navy as
brave and as determined as Sir CIIAS. NAPIER,
but bravery and determination are nothing with-
out judgment.
On this eventful occasion, Sir C. NAPIER showed
that he was not only brave, but judicious, and
adopted the best means for carrying into effect
the treaty of July. We would advise Admiral
STOPFORD not to adopt the sane language when
he returns to this country. Every human being
here gives the whole merit of the successful ope-
rations on the coast of Syria to Sir C. NAPIER,
and the universal opinion is, that if Sir ROBERT
STOPFORD, at his advanced age, had been with-
out such an assistant, the contestwould have been
prolonged till the TRIERS' party in France had
found good reasons for joining with MEIIEMET
Au, and bringing ou a European war. Sir C.
NAPIER is recognised as the only man in the
fleet worthy to be ranked with NELSON, and Sir
R. STOPFORD would, therefore, act wisely in not
provoking a comparison.

We recommend attention to a letter on the
" Brazil Trades" The writer, no doubt, is inte-
rested in the trade, but he states so distinctly
—and are not our manufactureres, our shipowners,
nay, every class of the community, and, above
all, the poorer class, interested? He does not
merely argue the question, however; he states

facts; and let the one-eyed philanthropists say
what they will, this country cannot afford to give
up a market of such importance. Were we mad
enough to isolate ourselves from slave-holding
or slave-dealing States, they would soon find
means to dispense with our manufactures; and
without in the slightest degree alleviating the
sufferings of the negro, we should incur the grie.
vows sin of driving to the workhouse, or starving
to death, thousands of our fellow-creatures.

Semlin letters of the 13th of May announce
the arrival of the Constantinople mails of the 4th
instant. The news of Bulgarian insurrection
created a great alarm in the Turkish capital, and
at first the SULTAN proposed sending IlussmN
PACHA, the destroyer of the Janissaries to quell
it. But after some deliberation the GRAND
VIZIER thought it best to send a deputation of
Bulgarian Christians to the insurgents, with the
strongest assurances of pardon and a full redress
of grievances. TAHIR PAcHA, who commands
the expedition against Candia, is a man of a most
cruel and ferocious disposition, and is more likely
to foment than to suppress rebellion.

Brussels Papers of the 26th inst. state that
such is the scarcity of sailors in Holland, that an
entire crew was hired in that city to proceed to
Batavia, and that as an encouragement to the
men three months' wages in advance were paid
them. In France, Belgium, and Holland, the
usual amount of wages in advance is two months.
A letter from Amsterdam of the 24th an-
nounces that an enormous quantity of the Bank
notes of that city are in circulation, and that
they have been received in London in payment
of the Dutch funds negotiated here. The Bank
knew for some time past of their being in circu-
lation, but rather than alarm the merchants here
paid such of them as were presented. This only
increased the confidence of the forgers, who
have thrown such an enormous quantity of them
into the market that the Bank can no longer re-
main silent. The forged notes are executed in a
most masterly style, so that it is almost impossi-
ble for foreigners to detect them.

BRUSSELS, MAY 26.—The average price of wheat last week
was 18f. Olc., and that of rye 10f. 87c. per hectolitre.

The Paris Journals of Wednesday, contain no
news of any interest. The Debats was of opinion
that on that day or the day following, the Minis-
ters would come down to the Chambers with a
message from the KING, relative to the forged
correspondence, and the alleged conversational
pledges given by his MAJESTY to the British
respecting the evacuation of Algiers.
The trial of DARMES is a dull affair, and so
early as Wednesday the Peers appeared to be
sick of it. The lawyers only exhibited signs of
animation and bustle, as vultures are only roused
by the fetid odour from some carcass in a state of

decomposition.
The scarcity and dearness of butchers' meat
continues to be loudlylcomplained of by the work-
ing classes, who cannot be made to comprehend
the patriotism of starving to increase the wealth
of the monopolists. The poor are everywhere
an ungrateful race. Every day we find the
rich troubling themselves about them, and
yet they are neither thankful nor contented.
For them the wealthy provide mendicant
asylums, and prisons, and threadmills, and
silent systems. To keep them in order, and
that they may famish with silent resigna-
tion to the will of Heaven (i. e. the will of
those who think the popular blood is best kept
from fermenting by careful abstinence from the
exciting stimulants of bread and beef) are there
not hosts of yens d'armes provided with autho-
rity to breathe the veins of the turbulent with
such lancets as no horse-leech ever applied to
the hide of a quadruped? It has been said
that there is one law for the rich and another for
the poor. In France we should say that all laws
are for the poor for the benefit of the
rich. Wealth knows no law, just as law knows
no guilt in the conduct of a constitutional King.
Unhappily, however, the victims of hunger in
France, are loudest in their denunciations of the
only effectual remedy for its removal—free
trade. They are famishing, and yet cry aloud
against a system of reciprocity, which would
supply them with abundance of excellent beef
and mutton from Germany and England.

M. Cochelet, French Consul-General at Alexan:lria, and M.
Gaulthier d'Are, French Consul at Barcelona, have arrived
in Paris.

The Temps states that the house of Balaydier of Lyons has
stopped•payment ; and that the house of Messrs. J. Laffitte
and Co., of Paris, are holders of 2,800,000 f. worth of bills of
that firm; but that they have all been accepted with such gua-
rantees that the latter house hasno fear of being losers. ,
The Quotidienne states that Deutz, who betrayed the
Duchess,de Berry, has just deztroyed himself. " Some time
since," it says, " this man lost most considerable sums in spe-
culations on the Stock Exchange. Treachery had enriched
him, rambling has ruined him. Reduced to the most extreme
misery, Deutz has thrown himself into the Seine."
Ile have received the following letter from Algiers, of the
18th of May :
As soon as General Rugeaud and the Prince set out for Mos-
taganem, increased efforts were made here to prepare every
thing for the immediate opening of the campaign. On the
15th an immense convoy was organised, which set out on the
following day, taking the road to 131idah, with the expeditionary
column which served as its escort.

The Arabs appear to be disposed to trouble us again. Groups
have again shown themselves at Torre Chika, and the enemy
seemed inclined to venture an attack on the flock belonging to
the Government, which was sent back to the plain of Staoueli.
The enemy appeared at other points, particularly in the environs
of Dover; the day before yesterday, in the morning, and we
have again to regret some losses on that side. Six colonists
have disappeared, and as no dead body has been found, it is to
be supposed that these unfortunate persons have been taken
into the mountains. We much fear that Abd-el-Kader, instead
of opposing the march of the expedition, will send a consi-
derable force into the Metidja, which may do us much injury.—
Le Constitutionnel.