The speeches of the week have been principally on the
Ame- rican war, and of these the most important was Mr. Bright's. The Member for Rochdale, in a burst of most eloquent argument, defended the right of the Union to refuse to become an heptarchy, and denounced the conduct of men who had overturned a free Government to found one based upon bondage. On the dispute with England he was, how- ever, less satisfactory. He allowed that the seizure of the two Commissioners was a " bad and impolitic act," and only urged the people to calmness, and the Government not to drift into war. Bat his remarks lacked national feeling, and leave the impression—not embodied, indeed, in one sentence, but pervading the whole speech like a bad scent—that rather than war with America be would relinquish the right of asylum. Mr. Howe, Premier of Nova Scotia, has declared in a recent lecture at Ashton-under-Lyne, that the colonists, ex- posed as they are, would welcome this war. Lord Fermoy and Mr. Lewis also have addressed the electors of Maryle- bone they were so violent against the North, that some unlucky individuals hissed, and were promptly told that the North had organized a system of paid espionage. The North has done many silly things, but spending its money in order to interrupt members for Marylebone is an imbecility to which, the electors may rely on it, the North has not yet descended.
