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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1833.

A conversation took place last night in the House
of Lords on the subject of the tithe prosecutions
recently commenced, when the Bishops of CHI-
CHESTER and LONDON took the opportunity of ob-
serving, that they thought the number greatly
exaggerated, and denied that they had been iiisti-
'uted in consequence of a recommendation from the
Episcopal Bench. The House afterwards resolved
itself into Committee on the Slavery Bill, the re-
maining clauses of which were agreed to, and the
report ordered to be received on Monday.

In the House of Commons, after the SOLICITOR-
GENERAL had announced his intention of postponing
tve Imp.isonment for Deb, Bill till next sess;on,
Mr. BUCKINGHAM brought forward his motion re-
specting the impressment of seamen, which, atter
it had undergone some modification, was rejected
by a majority of five—a majority so trill rig as to
amount almost to a defeat. Sir JAMES GRAHAM'.
speech on the occasion was satisfactory—as far as
it went. Mr. BLAMIRE obtained pertnis-ion to in-
troduce a Bill to suspend tithe prosecutions for a
year. At a subsequent part of the evening, the
Foreign Ertl •tment Bill was read a third time, and
pa-se I. Afterwards, on the motion of Mr. LIT-
TLETON, the Irish Tithe Bill was ordered to he-
considered in Committee on Saturday.

A motion of Mr. ROBINSON'S, last night, for the
production of the Russian Tariff; was productive of
a valuable declaration from Lord PALMERSTON on
the part of the Government, with respecr to the
conduct it intended to pursue in commercial matters.
The Hon. Member for Worcester had, in the
course of his speech, insinuated much in favour of
a restrictive system of commercial policy, and
seemed to entertain some hope that the Government
were about to adopt them. Lord PALMERSTON
said in answer, that " he could nor refrain from tell-
ing the Hon. Gentleman that his Majesty's Govern-
ment had' no intention to abandon its present com-
mercial policy. They believed that protection did
not give to the country the benefit which its name
implied. He could wish that the word protec-
tion' was erased from every commercial dictionary;
for instead of protection, it was disturbance :
for it interfered with the operations of capital—it
was .... ..ern 111111101. Y-it was a bar to
competition, and it disturbed every kind of com-
mercial relations. He therefore told the Hon. Mem-
ber that he need not fistter himself with the hope
that there either had been, or would be, any change
in the commercial creed of his Majesty's advisers."
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solves itslf into this--that because you have a
great debt to provide for, you must levy upon your
people a tax, and a heavy tax too, for everything
44) ch they get from foreign countries; or, in other
words, you must prevent them from buying as cheap
as they can, and of course prevent them, in the next
Place, from selling as cheap as they can. This was
a simple explanation of the common doctrine, that
lie prit.ople‘ of free trade might do very well in an
,nfant country, but that they would not do for an
old and artifi,jial country like England.—(Hear.)"
We have had occasion more than once to notice
she manner in which Mr. ROBINSON blows hot
and cold in the same breath. His speech last
night affords a fair sample of his semi-liberality.
Every one must condemn the wanton manner in
which the Prussian Custom-house authorities have
frequently exposed British goods to damage ; but
with respect to the ditties the Prussian Govern-
ment has imposed upon our manufactures by its