to be master of the horse.

THE SLAVE-TRADE QUESTION.

On the 30th of May Mr. Wilberforce, who had been labouring in his
vocation session after session, without making any visible progress
in the noble cause he had espoused, moved for the appointment of a
committee to consider the propriety of introducing a bill for the
abolition of the slave-trade, after a time to be limited. Both Pitt
and Fox supported the philanthropist, and his motion was carried by a
majority of seventy-five against forty-nine. A bill was now brought
in for the abolition, and the third reading was carried on the 28th
of June, by a majority of sixty-nine voices against thirty-three. Mr.
Wilberforce began to have hope that his long labour was about to be
rewarded--that the one grand object of his life was now about to be
accomplished. But he was doomed to be disappointed. It was rejected in
the upper house, on the ground, that having been introduced at so late
a period of the session, interested parties would be unable to obtain
substantial justice.

ADDITIONAL FORCE ACT

On the 5th of June Pitt introduced a bill for raising and supporting a
military force, and for a general reduction of the additional militia,
and which was denominated, "The additional force act." The essential
part of his plan was to increase the permanent strength of the regular
army, to which end he proposed limiting the militia to its usual
amount of 40,000 for England, and 8000 for Scotland, and removing the
difficulties which now stood in the way of recruiting for the regular
army, by destroying the competition existing between those who recruited
for the regular service, and those who recruited for limited service
only. He likewise proposed that the army of reserve should be raised
for five years, and that while it was not to be called out for foreign
service, it should serve both as an auxiliary force to the regular army,
and as a stock from which that army might be recruited. According to
his plan, it was to be joined to the regular army in the way of
second battalions; and he considered that from so close a connexion, a
considerable number of the reserve might be induced to volunteer for the
regular army, Pitt's bill was opposed by Windham, Fox, Addington, and
others, but it was carried through the commons with small majorities,
and in the lords, by one hundred and fifty against sixty-nine.

DEBATE ON THE CORN-LAWS.

In consequence of a report of