3 AUGUST 1839, Page 11

One of the Under Secretaries being at the bar of

the House of Lords immediately after the Portuguese Slave-trade Bill was thrown out, said to an Opposition Peer—" We are much obliged to you : give us ano- ther vote like that, and we can dissolve the Parliament." Dissoke in- deed! The present Ministers dare not dissolve the Parliament on any question which can be raised either by or for them.