24 MARCH 1832, Page 12

In the division in the House of Lords on Thursday

night, Ministers were in a minority of one with regard to the Peers present, and only obtained a majority on the proxies. Some of the opponents of Minis- ters boast that a majority of proxies also could have been obtained by the Opposition, had they chosen, as Lord ELDoN alone had thirty proxies intrusted to him. Is not this a sufficient warning as to the danger of intrusting the Reform Bill to a House so constituted, without an infusion of sound Peers ? We are not sorry that this formidable array should have been displayed so soon.—/lkraing aronic/e.

A petition is circulating in the City for the repeal of the Hemp- duties. The arguments used by the petitioners are the same as those which we lately urged for its removal.