NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Bora Houses of Parliament adjourned on Wednesday for the _Easter holydays—the Lords to Thursday the 11th, the Commons to Monday the 8th of April.
With the exception of voting money, no business of importance was attended to by the Commons. The Navy and Ordnance Esti- mates, idler much unprofitable t elk i N., were passed without alteration.
There was "no house" on Tuesday, when a really important question stood for discussion. Mr. LABOECIIERE had put a notice on the paper for leave to bring in a bill to provide for the temporary government of' Jamaica. The suspension of the Colonial Legis- lature was the scope of his measure ; for the Jamaica Assembly, though composed of' High Church and King gentlemen, and in close connexion with English Tories, is as unmanageable as the suspended or defunct Assembly of Lower Canada was, and treats her Majesty's representatives with a degree of insolent contempt which PariNEAu and his confederates never equalled. It being found impossible to "work" the Colonial systetn in Jamaica, mild Mr. Ls itocenEan was to substitute for it a good, wholesome, vigorous dcipot ism. But it happened that the Jamaica proprietors in England, a formidable anti pugnacious body, saw nothing just or agreeable in applying to their English colony the rule which under a similar state of affitirs they imposed upon French Canada. So Lord Sr. ViscEser, Lord SeArono, and a considerable number of persons connected with Jamaica, held a meeting and concerted measures of opposition to the measure. It is conjectured that the cause of there being " no House " on Tuesday may be found in these pro- ceedings. But Lord JOHN Itessma., the next day, innocently begged permission to set aside the regulation which requires a fresh notice to be given for a " dropped order," and hoped his honourable friend would be allowed to introduce his bill with- out notice. With this request Sir Ronear PEEL could not comply: it was, he said, no slight matter—the suspension of the Jamaica constitution ; and due notice must be given. Most readily did Lord Jot's acquiesce in the refusal, and the evil day of the Jamaica Bill is put off.
The only other point of moment was the appointment of a day for the grand battle about Ireland. On Monday, the Ministerial Leader named Thursday the 11th, but on Wednesday he postponed the motion to Monday the 15th of April ; having ascertained that it would be inconvenient for Members to attend at the earlier time. It happened that, in the interval between the sitting of the House on Monday and its meeting on Wednesday, a letter from Mr. D'Coxsand, appeared in the Dublin papers, announcing that the nintion would be made "on or about the 15th :" and the coinci- dence with the alteration by Lord Joins RUSSELL was, of course, inemsliately pointed out by the Tories, as evidence of Lord JOHN'S obedience to his "master." A jibe of small three, it must be owned : the necessity of securing a full attendance of Ministerial Members, of whom the Irish form an important section, suffi- ciently justifies the postponement on a principle of common pru- dence, without supposing mastery on the one side or submission on the other. Lord JOHN could not be expected to go ittto the field, of his own choice, with only a part of his troops. The thllowing noblemen compose Lord Romes;'s Committee of inquiu„. into the state of crime in Ireland since 1835.
It kraals of Lansdowne, Lord Fitzgibbon, 1ort1 Duncannon, Lord Elleirboroug,h,
Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Roden, Marquis of Westmeath, Lord Lyndhurst, Alarquis of Normanby, Lord Piunket,
Earl of Gosford, Lord Brougham,
Marquis of Downshire, Lord Cloneurry, Earl of Charleyille, Lord II atherton, Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Clenelg, Doke of Leinster, Lord Carew, Viscount Flawarden, Duke of Richmond.
Bishop of Exeter, The preponderance in the Committee is decidedly with Lord Rons;s1; and it may be surmised that the Marquis of NORMANDY
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will receive—justice, let us hope, but certainly no undue favour, especially as the members likely to be most assiduous in attendance are the tierce Irish Lords.
