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LONDON JOURNALS

[DAILY EX 7'.1.4C7'5.]

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

[Morning. Chronicle.]
The HOUSE of• Commoms met yesterday, and
adjourned over to Tuesday, the 17th of October
next. An important diScussion took place on a
motion of Mr. llobhouse, respecting the proceed-
ings against her Majestysfor which we refer our
Readers to our report. . They will see that
Lord Castlereagh did not deny that obstacles
havebeen thrown in 'the way of the agents of her
Majesty by the Austrian Government ; but- then
his Lordship wished us to believe. that this origi-
nated in no unfair partiality on the part of that
Government, but in its.,inflexible adherence 'to
official forms on all occasions:. He observed that
the proSecution had experienced great inconve-
nience from. the same circumstance, and he in-
stanced • some papers, which, 'in-.consequence of
official delays, did not reach this country till the
case was closed. His Lordship - entered into
something like a. defence of Baron Ompteda's
gallantry, on the authority. of Count Munster,
which we confess we did not well understand.—
His Lordship, in speaking of the public feel-
ing in favour of the Queen, held a very different
language from the Ministerial Journals. 'these
would have us believe that this feeling is shared
by very few persons of respectability in the
country. Not so his Lordship,however. 'He did
not attempt to insult .the good sense of the'
Houle by language like this, but admitted, while
he lamented, the .existence.of a general feeling
in favour of her Majesty. Some severe observa-
tions were delivered by Mr. Creeveg, on the man-
ner in which the proceedings had been conducted
in the House of Lords. He alluded particularly
to the cheering and • other, marks of partiality,
which the Counsel for the prosecution occasion-
ally received, and for which her Majesty's Judges
had been rebuked by her Counsele—Some dis-
cussion took place with respect to the expenses
of the'proceediugs, and the sums issued for her
Majesty's defence, and accounts of' both were or-
dered to be laid before the House.----On a ques-
tion put, by Mr. Hume, on the subject of the
rumours afloat respecting Portugal, . Lord Cas-
tlereagh stated, that Ministers were yet in pos-
session of no authentic information as to the re-
cent proceedings in that country, and were
therefore unable to deli ver any opinion with re-
gard to them.

[Morning Post.]
The Must of Comm°Ns met yesterday, and
a desultory debate was got up on the Queen's
business in all its branches by a very weak mi-
nority, consisting principf:lly of Honourable Gen-
tlemen, who have prepared themselves .for the
office of impartial Judges, in this important affair,
by haranguing so conspicuously out of doors as
devoted partizans of the party accused. Messrs.
Hobhouse and Moore, and Ilume and Whit-
bread, and Sir Gerard Noel and Sir It. Wil-
son, and Mr. Bennett and Mr. Creevey, formed
the phalanx oil this desperate service ; and while
the Opposition Benches were as bare of. talent
and respectability as ever the idlest debate on
any question witnessed, these redoubtable ora-
tors recited and repeated all that they had so
frequently rehearsed in taverns, on stages, in
highways, and at parish meetings. On the front
seat were Mr. Moore and the new convert, Sir
Gerard, like the two Kings of Brentford, smell-
ing at one. nosegay ; and behind these mighty
leaders were ranged the rest of the. Queen's light
horse, or rather, if we might name. them from
.their eloquence, her heavy troop. Never did
the British Senate. cut so remarkable a figure as
on this occasion, when a glorious dozen (the above
eight included) voted for the junior Member-for
Westminstfr's motion to put an eud to all pro-
ceedings by addressing the Crown to dissolve
Parliament. These call themselves the Queen's
friends, and we may gather their opinions of the
value of her defence, when we see them endea-
vouring to stop where they axe covered with all
the odium and infamy of the proof as it now
stands against'the accused, rather than approach
the dreaded gaol of decision—when we see that
they would prefer the existing accumulation' of
disgrace to what they fear in a final verdict.

[Nero 7nines.] , '
The lionsE of Commoss yesterday assembled,
and after agreeing to a motion by the Chancellor
of the ExcheqUer, for a Committee to search the
Lords' Journals, adjourned to the 17th of Oc-,
tober.--Gertain friends of her Majesty (twelve in
number!), thought it would be wise to address
the King to put a stop to the proceedings against,
the Queen. That so strange a notion should
enter into the bead of Mr..llobbouse,. nobody
who has perused the profound lucOrations of
that young Gentleman, will be much surprised
to learn. Neither .will it astonish the learned,
that that " great arithmetician," Mr. Joseph
Ilume .(who so unfortunately overlooked a co-
lumn of figures in framing a Resolution once for
the House of Commons), should adopt the bril-
liant ideas of the junior Member for Westmin-
ster. But that the House of Commons should
contain ten other Senators who did not perceive
the gross absurdity and injustice of so exceed-
ingly absurd and unjust a proposition, does a al-
most make us waver in our faith," and hold
opinion with those who Maintain, that there
is a necessity for a Reform in Parliament.—

• . [The Times.]
We have heard of no private letters in town
from Madrid that either Mention or render yro-
babie the disgrace of Riego, related in the French
Papers. One-circumstance in the story, calcu-
lated to render the whole doubtful, is/ that the
punishment of banishment, which is said to have
been inflicted on that distinguished soldier and
patriot, is not I:l,rmitted byp the constitution. Still
less can a Spaniard be subjected to any punish-
ment whatever, without a regular form of 'trial,
of which nothing is said in this account.