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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, MS.

The Election for a Member to serve in Par-
liament for Plympton, in the room of Sir C.
WETHERE Li,, is fixed for Saturday the 9th inst.

The day of Election for Invernessshire is fixed
for tl►e 28th, in the room of the Right Hon
C. GRANT.

The space occupied in the preceding columns
by Mr. BROUGHAM'S admirable speech of last
night, precludes the possibility of offering any
lengthened comment. A careful perusal will
fully repay the exertion which it will require, and
may convey some faint idea of the research and
investigation which must have been employed in
preparing it, as well as of the powers of a mind
capable of' such an effusion.
Mr. PEEL replied in a bir and manly speech,
requiring some time to consider so extended a,
subject, but disclaiming any desire " to defeat
Mr. BROUGHAM'S motion, or to deprive him of
that ho►►est fame, which is due for having
originated such a motion."
We perfectly agree with the Right Honourable
Secretary in his objection to Mr. BROUGHAM'S
plan of paying the Judges by fees. We must,
however, conclude our observations which we
beg to do by recommending to the especial
perusal of our readers, the splendid peroration
with which Mr. BROUGHAM concludes his
speech :

" I shouldsay to the British House of Commons, you may
make your name descend to posterity by deeds of higher
sound and more useful import than those of any Parlia-
ment that ever sat within these walk. You have lived to
see the day when the greatest conqueror of the age—the
victor of Italy, the humbler of Germany—held all his
triumphs poor compared with that which you also are in
a condition to achieve. You have lived to see him, de-
spite of the inconstancy of fortune, breathe his latest and
truest boast, I shall go down to posterity with my code
in my hand"—(Hear, hear.) You have defeated him in
the field ; now strive to rival him in the roost sacred arts of
peace.—(Hear, hear.) The glory of the Regency, glitter-
log as it was, hc eclipsed by the more useful and en-
during
splendour of the present reign. The flatterers of
our Edwards and our Harrys might call them the Justini-
ans of their day; but men of sense and wisdom, scorning
the baseness of adulation, may justly pay that tribute to a
Monarch, beneath whose rule the work I have feebly re-
commended shall he performed with the approbatieu of
his Parliament, and the sanction of his Ministers. Let
those Ministers bestir them in the work, and begird them
for its strenuous accomplishment. Crowns and sceptres
in my view, have no more happy incidents than that they
enable the wearers and the holders, not to conquer, but to
preserve—not to subdue by arms, but to secure affection by
pre-eminent utility. It was the boast of Augustus—and
it casts its lustre through the shade of the cruelty and per-
fidy that deformed his rule—that he found Rome brick,
and that he left it marble. How much loftier and nobler
may be the boast of our King, if this great undertaking be
completed, that he found law dear and he made it cheap
—(Hear, hear.)—that he found it a sealed book, and left
it a living letter—(Hear, hear)—that he found it.the pa-
trimony of the rich, and left it the inheritance of the poor
—Hear, hear.)—that he found it a two-edged sword in
the hands of craft and oppression, and left it the staff of the
honest, and the shield of the innocent.—(Loud cheers.)
To me, much reflecting on these subjects, it has always
seemed that there is no prize of ambition which a man
can honestly covet, so desirable as the glory of having
been the humble instrument of directing the attention
of the Legislature to these high matters. I value it far
above office, whose patronage would be irksome, whose
emoluments I disregard—content, like the rest of my
industrious countrymen, with providing by the labour
of my own hands for my own necessities. As to the power
which belongs to great place, in which, as has been truly
said men are thrice servants,' I have lived for nearly half
a century, and I have learnt that its real worth can
only consist in the ability it affords to aid :our fellow-crea-
tures in obtaining their just rights. That power I possess :
the grievances of my countrymen I can assist in redressing,
whether as their advocate in this House, or as their co-
adjutor out of it : that power no Ministry can give—no
change can take away."—(Long continued cheering.)

We have received this morning the Allgenzeine
Zeitung of the Ist ult., and Brussels Papers of
the 6th inst., but w•e have no room for extracts.
It is reported that the Greeks have taken the
fortress of Vassiladi, and are preparing to invest
Missolonghi.

We are compelled, from the extraordinary
length of Mr. BROUGHAM'S splendid speech,
to omit several articles of intelligence.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, FEB. 7.—Wind S.W. by S.—The outward
bound remain.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 7.—Wind S.S.E. to S.—
Sailed the Britannia, Thomas, for St. Kitt's, and
Foi.r Friends, Prynn, for Lisbon.
The Chelsea, Greaton, from Charleston to :Havre,
was dismasted the 7th ult. during :a violent gale in
lat. 41. long. 40. and abandoned.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 6.—The Echo, from Bengal,
has not arrived, and her being off the Port is sup-
posed to be incorrect.
ANTWERP, FEB. 4.—A very considerable part of
the
Coffee, per the James Scott, Richards, from
Batavia, is landing in a sea-damaged state. Two
thousand bags have already been surveyed.
GRAVESEND, FEB. 7.—Arrived the Bideford,
nollard, from St. Michael's ; Daphne, Farmar,
from Smyrna ' • Creole, Galloway, from Brazil ; Ash-
burton, Pain, from Seville ; and Campbell, Brown,
from Jamaica.—Sailed the Blenheim, Hornett, fo;r
St. Vincent's ; Maria, Robert, for Jamaica; and
Ellen, Taylor, for New South Wales.

The Lousitania, from London to Oporto,
was spoken with in lat. 42, long. 10, by the Lyre,
-, arrived off Margate.
The Vyf Gibruders, Poodle, bound to Ilavannah,
put back to Antwerp on the 4th inst., with damage,
haying been on shore near Caleb.

THE ARMY.

The following changes have taken place with the
troops in Ireland :
The Depot of the 10th Foot, removed from Cork
to Spike Island ; the Depot of the 19th Foot, from
Kinsale to Charles Fort; the Depot of the 11th
Foot, from Spike Island to Cork ; and the Depot of
the 22d Foot, from Charles Fort to Kinsale. One
Company of the 32d Regiment, from Limerick to
Kinsale.
The Detachment of the 3(1 Foot Guards, sta-
tioned at Bath, will march to Chippenham on the
Bth, and the Detachment of the 46th Foot to Brad-
ford, to remain until the 14th, during the election of
a Member for the City of Bath, when they will
return.
The 49th Regiment is ordered to proceed from
the Cape of Good Hope to Bengal, to relieve the
59th Regiment, which is to come home.
A Detachment of the Royal Artillery, under the
command of Major F. Campbell, is at Dublin,under
orders to embark for Malta.
The 26th Regiment, now at Chatham, is under
orders to proceed to Madras, to relieve the 30th
Regiment, which is to conic home.
The permanent Staff of the North York Militia,
marched from Richmond to Gillina, on the sth inst.,
to remain during the election of a Member for
Richmond.
The 16th Regiment, now in Ceylon, is to relieve
the 47th at Bengal, the latter Regiment being
ordered home.