11 JANUARY 1840, Page 1

Members of Parliament will find plenty of work store for

them. The recess has been unusually prolific of neol, for legis- lative investigation. The Privilege question, the ttacien's mar- riage-settlements, Chartism, the state of comm .0 and the currency in connexion with Corn-laws, the mutt:1i ,,,,raneous fall of' revenue and increase of expenditure, the war with China, affairs of India, Turkey and Egypt, Canada, the West Indies, New South Wales and the Colonies generally—all require immediate atten- tion, and all teem with difficulties.