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!amity ; for, to cure a disease, it is necessary to be
apprised of its symptoms. Hanging and transporting
are clearly not the MN. Rewards appear to be no
temptation. What, then, are the grievances which
render the population so reckless and callous ? Can no pro-
sent alleviation be devised ? Cannot the policy of the Select
vestry act be ameliorated in its practice ? Cannot something
be done to improve wages, and ere employment ? At a late
Essex Sessions, some men have been sentenced to transpor-
tation for seeking, by threats; to raise their wages from 2s.
to 2s. 3d. Is 2s. 3d., or the thirtieth of a quarter of
wheat, too much per day ? Many writers assign a
twentieth, and such was the ancient usage ; but
it appears to us, that such points merit special
and liberal consideration. Fires are a terrible remedy,
and their continuance, and even increased frequency,
is a stain on the character of the country. Coer-
cion has been tried—and tried in vain ; and if fair con-
cession and conciliation will curb so terrible an evil, no
time ought to be lost The agricultural population—
tbe residents of single houses—country gentlemen, &c. &c.
are exhausted by watching, sleepless nights, and anxiety.
Parish and County meetings might be eminently useful, and
it will afford us pleasure to record their sentiments.

The speech of General LEMA lIQU T., and the discussion in
the Chamber of Deputies, will be read with great interest
A private letter we have just seen from Paris, represents the
Chamber as very unpopular ; and, as an instance, mentions
that in a piece at the Odeon, NA POLION is introduced, and
made to say, " the Chamber are unworthy which always
produces unanimous applause.

Private accounts received by the Hamburgh Mail this
day, bring intelligence from Warsaw to the 7th, setting
forth that the merchants of Moscow have deposited the
sum of eighteen millions of silver roubles, at the disposal of
the Emperor NICHOLAS ; and likewise that an offer has
been made, by the inhabitants of Courland, to supply
twelve thousand sledges, for the conveyance of the
Russian troops to their respective destinations. At the same
time, it is stated from Warsaw, that the Russian army has
begun to experience more difficulties in its progress, than had
been at first imagined ; and that it cannot possibly be ready to
take the field for two months to come. CII LOPIC II I wishes
to act on the defensive ; but the general voice of the people
is for an invasion of Lithuania ; by which they expect to
rally the people of that territory, and engage them in the
cause of Poland.

Jamaica Papers to the 21st November are received this
day; by which we find that the new House of Assembly
met on the 9th, and Mr. BARRETI had been appointed
Speaker. The Governor, the Earl of BELMORE, on that
occasion, announced the accession of his present MA-
JESTY ; and in the course of his speech, his Lordship in-
formed the House, that the Slave Act, as modified in the
last Session of the Assembly, bad been disallowed by his
MAJESTY in Council. In reply, the Assembly stated
to the Governor, " that the disallowance of the Slave
Act disappointed the just expectations of the House."—
Little unanimity seems to prevail amongst the authorities ;
for, in another part of the address, the Members
say : " We cannot lead your Excellency to expect, that the
House will re-imburse, to the Mother Country, the advances
made for the subsistence of the troops, during the time the
colony did not provide for them."

We have Brussels papers this morning, from which we
extract the following singular debate, in the National Con-
gress, on a variety of topics. It does not convey any
exalted idea of the gentlemen composing the Congress, u
legislators :

BRUSSELS.