Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1827-09-01
FOREIGN.
From a tate London O5sercer rceeivcd at this

he session OF Parliament is virtually con-
Guided, the House of Commons having last
night adjourned to Friday, by which day i, is
calculated tliat the Lords will have gone thro'
the remainder of their business, and on Satur.
day the two Houses will be proroyued. it is
supposed, by Commission. Upon retrospect
OF the proceedings of this first Session of the
New Testament, we do not think that either
iiouSe has done much to ingratate itself with
inc people, or to satisfy the spirit of the age
Al the commons the great question Of Reform
mas been lost sight of, whilst the next to it in
lmportancc-the question of Religious Liber-
ty-has been shuifled off under rather iesuiti-
Gil pretences, and must await the decision of
the next Session. The conclud:nt week has
Deen climax peculiarly unfortunate, when
Parliament separate Immediately after reicc-
tioh OF measure at once popular and impor-
tant AS partial substitute for the Com Bill
rejected by the Lords, Mr.. CANNING has
brought In Resolution to allow the corn now
in bond, or which shall be in bond, before the
ISL prox'ino, to be sold to the people on the
scale OF dates proposcd-ih the lost Bill The
quantity which will be thus diffused, is calcu-
iated at about SIX hundred thousand quarters
and we need not say, that it is too small to be
OF any very beneficial effect to any class or in
terest We trust that the proposition will pass
'hrou the Lords, for it is imperiously de-
mandcd as mere measure of justice towards
those who have imported the grain upon the
iaith OF the Government allowing its sale at
the rate of duties which they published a.
mongst the corn dealers. Upon discussing the
Resolutions i'll the Commons, Mr. HusKIssoN
confessed that the rejected Bill was intended
TO Keep the price of corn at sixty, and that the
average price which the landowners had been
aoie 10 get Tor the corn in the last seven years
under system of prohibition, was only SIS.
Al. In other terms, this gracious boon to the
people is confessed to have been calculated to
ensure to the Arstocracy 2s Sd. a quarter
more than they had for seven years before
been able to obtain, and to make the people
pay that sum tor their food more than their in
uus'fy mas as yet enabled them to pay, without
the utmost suffering. Yet, though the measure
was more calculated to pacify the feelings than
to ailay the hunger of the people, so anxious
were the Arlstocracy not to throw away the
possibility OF chance of rise above sixty
that they threw out the measure. At this mo-
hent, Mr. HusKIssoN states that corn cannot
DE imported, even from Rotterdam, at less than
4os, which would, had the Bill been carried
nave subjected it to duty of 24s, making the
corn rs quarter more than the existing price
In the home market. Mr.. CANNING declared
tIlat the Resolutions he moved, relative to the
Bonded Corn, were of a temporary nature, be-
cause ne knew that the Lords were predeter-
mined to reject whatever Germ Bill miqbt he
sent to them from the Commons. This was
frank and manly in the Right Honorable Gen.
tleman, but had any journalist or political wri-
Ter brought such charge of dereliction of
principle against the House of Peers. he wouId
nave been visited by one or those Ex-ornc1o IN
formations which the present Acknowledgement
has declared not to be sufficiently numerous.
Attlngent to this subject is the virtual reiec-
ton OF the Corn Averages Bill, by an error
which shows how totally ignorant the Peers are
OF the business they have to transact The
original Bill was to be effective throughout
England and Wales" but an Amendment
was moved to substitute "Great Britain and
Ireland" The Amendment was lost, and
when the original clause was put to the vote it
was negatved, owing to the Ministerial Mem
bers having left the House. Thus the Bill
stands, without any clause applying il to any
country, and is of course imperative This
virtual loss of the Bill, by passing it without
any locality of application, is, in fact, of no
consequence, for the mode of taking the ave.
RACES must be Indifferent, now that the impor-
tatIon OF corn is prevented
On Thursday ali important discussion came
on, which seriously affects the Navy, and in
the course of it, Sir GEORGE CocKBURN be-
trayed that there exists design to authorize
'u1 oaic vi NAVAL commissions, upon prlnCI-
pie similar to that which has long rendered our
army the reproach of other countries We
are always sorry when the Members of the
Royal Family are placed at the head of public
departments; their previous education disqual-
Ines them for business whilst it imparts many
notions scarcely native to our soil. We trus.
that the Duke of CLARENCE, will pause ere he
introduces into the Navy regulation caIcu-
lated to prostitute it to the Aristocracy and the
wealthy. Sir GEORGE CocKBURN was, we are
informed, raised from before the mast and it
greatly rebounds to his honour. Should the
new regulation be introduced, we fancy Sir
GEORGE will be almost the last instance Of
merit meeting with its due reward But we
expect to find in man of Sir GEoRGE's origin
all the firm honesty and sinelcness of purpose
characteristic of the sailor. We should expect
to lind in him the hardy determination not to
allow his profession to be sophisticated, and
made the receptacle of titled coxcombs and
purse-proud tops. Sir GEORGE, however. tells
us, that 1t will be an advantage if veteran Off
GERS too old for service, be allowed to sell their
commissions for four or FIVE thousand pounds
and that it will benefit the country if their
places are filed by younger officers of more
energy. We certainly cannot respect the feel
1ngs of any naval officer who could calculate
upon leaving his post, which he had won by
his bravery, for the sordid consideration of the
money to be paid to him by his successor; and
ut is obvious that where Commissions are to be
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