POSTSCRIPT • SATURDAY i . :tifirir. I inisters, we are told, have
given their friends to miderstand that they intend to make the preseet session of Parliament a very short One. With this view, they are 1n-pared with the necessary Aloney lulls; and having once obtairied votes for the Supplies, will dispanse with tlw iwrplexing attendance of the Popular Representatives, as soon as pusTh,, idea seems to Ire, that it will be good policy to wean the peoplaa from thinking much alma Parliament and it, doiegs. This would be a dangerous experinitee mu the treble-. Besides, the Ministero may have miscalculated even ate reg.Irds their majerity in the Douse of Commons ; who may tern re-tire on theirlitliulS. 11111 itwist Up011 a return to the now aalinost obsolete practice of demanding a redress of grit-vain-es before granting the Supplies. At all events, this would be the soft course to pursue, whether Ow rumour to which we allude be well or ill founded.
Lord Ai:ranee maintains grt it rosetTe nitwit his financial eXprist.: ; butt the office gossip is that he intends to repeal the exportation-duty on Coals, and to repeal or reduceseveral of the taxes which press most upon the industrious classes. Nothing is said of any intention to reduce the Newspaper Stamp-duty.
The shipowners of the I 'lined States are under we;glity obligations to the framers of the late Orders in Comic til Carr the regulation of the British trade to China. These orders in fact 'impose discriminating duties in favour of the Yankees, and against the merchants of linglatel. Were the principle on which they seem to have been drawn up acted upon in reference to our commerce to other parts of the world, the British flag would soon disappear from our docks and harbours. We have Just been informed of one instance, which occurred at Li verpeol the other day, of the injurious operation trt: these Orders. Some British manufactured articles, for which freight had been engaged on board it British ship to Canton, and which had le-en consigned to a British house there, have [Well transferred to an .; it rican vessel, and are now consigned to soi A tnerican merchant. 1 he freight and commissitm, therefore, which would uaturally have lelen into the hands of the English shipowner and merchant, will c pocketed by me. American rivals : mat the most provokingthing is, that this evil reselt is broright about by the ignormwe and obstinacy of our own rulers. The inductive of Mr. Poueerr Truemsoe must he weak i mm quarters where his advice ought to he followed ; for we cannot suppose for It moment that lie is blind to the ilrevitable consequences of the Canton trade Orders ; although the greet maiority of his colleagues an! incapawitated by their habits and education for a right understanding of the bubject.
TheDuke of Ruetatoen hits commenced a negotiation with the French Post-office for the purpose of fixing a fair rate of postage upon French and English newspapers sent from the One country to the other. M. Coarre, the Director of the Frent-li Postes, declares that he has antler • rity from his Government to establish the affair on the most liberal footing.
Prince TALLEYRAND has bad two interview's during the week with Lord PetelensToN about the Belgian affairs, which occasion a great deal of uneasiness in our Carbinet. On the last visit of the Prince, he was so feeble as to be unable to move without the aid of two servants, on whom he hung almost as if he had been lift-less. 'Iwo years ago, be was able to walk up the stairs of the Foreign Office with only the help of his stick. The Belgian Cluirgil d'Affaires has had an interview with Lord PALNILRSTON, for the purpose of making, in the name of his Governr ment, a formal complaint against the conduct of the Dutch authorities in Luxembourg, and requiring the intasference of the British I Cabinet. Lord PALM:101'0N begs that the Belgians will bear patiently I with these annoyances, as there is no prospect of an intervention by this country or France in their favour.
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