11 MARCH 1837, Page 15

Mr. HUME makes it a rule of his Parliamentary conduct,

not to take personal offence. He sits in a public capacity, and all his own observations have reference only to the public conduct of political friends or foes. He will not he provoked into giving or receiving a challenge—that is well known ; he will not retort mere personality upon an assailant, even in words. The conse- quence is, that he is assailed by many with a degree of coarseness and insolence which the parties would never think of using towards either a " fighting Man" or a satirical epigrammatist. Certain we are, for instance, that Lord STANLEY would never have reetured to speak of Mr. SHELL, or Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, or Sir ANDREW LEITH Hay, in the terms he used when ridiculing Mr. HUME on Wednesday. The rule of the House, which declares it disorderly to speak of a Member by name, was broken through repeatedly by Lord STANLEY. He spoke of " Hume" without even the " Mr." which formal courtesy demands when alluding to an individual present. "Home is up"—" not that they regarded Canada less, but they deprecated Hume more ir such was the style, till the days of the thimblerig unprecedented for vulgar insolence in the House of Commons. Mr. BERNAL, who e as chairman, ought to have stopped the rampant young nobleman; and Mr. Hums would have done well on this occasion to have called " Stanley to order." Perhaps, however, Mr. Hume may be persuaded to try how Lord STANLEY himself will bear a similar strain of abuse. We would not recommend the experiment if we thought a repeti- tion of it would be necessary ; but let Mr. HOME take the first opportunity of mentioning "Stanley" to his face—"the renegade Stanley"—" the Tom Thumb of the Opposition "—" Stanley the rejected of the Whigs, and Peel's second fiddle." Let him see how the young gentleman likes that sort of language when addressed to himself.