The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-25 00:00:00

(Fi.o-.1 TUE P %PER nF TIIE :NV!

enxcnrss.—The House resumed the ronsideration of
the amendments of the Senate to the Bill fur the ad-
mission of Maine into the Union. The question on
disagreeing to the Senate's aui:nduient, ‘,.as diviaed.
The !louse disagreed in that amendment of the. St.
nate which proposei to annex the Missouri Bill to the
Maine Bill. The qnestion was then taken on di.agree-
ing to the residue of the amendments of the 14_ ..nate. nide
the exception of that which embraces 'list familiarly
called the compromise amendment, mid deride I 1.1.,1 by
yeas and nays, as follow :—For disagreeing, 102—
against, el.
(racim TOR PAPCR OF Tilt 24T11 ern.)

Sundry Resolutions relative to the encouragement of
domestic, manufactures were passed, and sent to the
Senate for concurrence. They recommend that our
Representatives in Congress be instructed to nse• their
influence in causing a revision of the Tariff, iu order to
reduce foreign importations, fur the protection of our
own manufactures, and urge tin• pro! riety of the Aleut.
hers of the Legislature, and all Officers of Government
of this State, and the 31enthers of Corzre,, from the
saute, to clothe themselves in domestic manor-whirr,
while acting in their public capacities.
(raom THE IiF.RALD OF THE 2(111 OF rrnni• my.)

Wesr-I sins Trine.—We feel a high Ilrerer
of satisfaction in announcing the phrasing' intelligence,
that 1l r. Newton, from the Committte •.t Commerce,
reported to the House of Representatives. on Tuesday
last, a Bill concerning navigation, and to repeal the act
of April, I%ls ; and that said Bill was twice read, anti
eeentnitted. The Art proposed to be repealed, it is
needless to inform our readers, is one which prohibits
all the intercourse between the United States and the
British West-India Islands, in British, vessels. It is to
be recollected, we repeatedly urged the impulicy of ibis
law while it was pending in Congress.
Repoli? oN CUltitENCY.—llt is believed that the evils
which are felt in those sect' of the Union where
the dis:ress is most general, will not he extensively
relieved by the establishment of a national currency.
The sufferings which have been produced by the efforts
that have been made to resume and continue specie pay-
ments, have been great; they are not terminated, and
must continue until the value of property, and the price
of labour, shall resume that relation to the precious,
metals which our wealth anti industry, compared with
those of other States, shall enable us to retain. Until
this shall be effected, an abortive attempt, by the sub-
stitution of paper Current'''. to arrest the evils we are
suffering, will produce the most distressing conse-
quences.

We gave at full length yesterday the irerortant trial,
which has terminated in a verdict of Guilty against
Sir FRANCIS DI:RI/ITT. It has grieved more than
surprised the public. That in a county. lately the
seat of disturbances, and, at this moment, under the
operation of restrictive laws, a charge of seditious
writing should be established by th• carscientions rye-
dist of a Jery, is neither astonishing ror unnatural.
Jurors, whatever testy be their integrity, cannot totally
discanl the feelings excited by the circumstances of
agitation and alarm in the midst of which they have
been placed. They see danger in every shadow, and hear
a foe in every, sound. With sech involuntary and
unavoidable impressions on their minds, they are eon-
'Octavos, hut not adeptate jetices of the matters sub-