When Henry Clay is added to the list of personal
squabblers in tlie Senate of the -United States, the warm denunciation of Daniel 'Webster comes not too soon. Mr. Benton was the person who provoked the venerable Senator to a verbal breach of the peace, —the accursed question of slavery being the provocative ; and it was half feared that a more practical breach would be effected; but the intervention of the Chairman stopped the scandal. Mr. Webster looked upon these disgraceful scenes with horror ; and well he might : they not only disgrace the American Congress in The eyes of foreign countries, but set a low standard of manners to the Senators' own country—a low standard of behaviour between man and man, a low standard of feeling.
From the French West Indies we learn that society is threaten- ed with disruption : Guadeloupe is disturbed by a rebellious in- eendiarism ; in Martinique the Blacks were in revolt, but kept in Cheek by the armed Whites. Hayti has not taught the French to treat the Blacks with kindness or even justice.
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