*** The Provisional Government in Russia, according to The Evening News, has "always regarded an international debate on the questions of war and pease as useful."

And I remember, in the debate upon the celebrated secession of the Rockingham party, upon the death of their leader, to have heard his abilities particularly vouched in very strong terms, by Mr. chancellor Pitt, and the present lord Sidney.

The majority stifled the debate; will it be able to do this always?

This naturally did not satisfy the nation, and petitions flowed in for the abolition of the censorship of the Press and for the publicity of debate.

At the age of seventeen we find him writing letters to Arthur Hallam on politics and literature: and his old schoolfellows testify to his great influence among them for purity, humanity, and nobility of character, while he was noted for his aptness in letters and skill in debate.

On the 29th of January, 1833, at the age of twenty-four, Gladstone entered upon his memorable parliamentary career, during the ministry of Lord Grey; and his maiden speechfluent, modest, and earnestwas in the course of the debate on the proposed abolition of slavery in the British colonies.

What gave charm to the speeches of Peel and Gladstone in their prime was the new matter they introduced before debate began; and this was the result of laborious study.

He was experienced, versatile, liberal, popular, and ready in debate.

The debate was continued for eight successive nights.

The memorable rivalry between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli was now continued in deeper earnest, and never ceased so long as the latter statesman was a member of the House of Commons, They were recognized to be the heads of their respective parties,two giants in debate; two great parliamentary gladiators, on whom the eyes of the nation rested.

The matter is prolonged by debate till midnight.

In the meantime, while they treat upon the terms, and a longer debate than necessary is designedly entered into by Ambiorix, being surrounded by degrees, he is slain.

There is a debate concerning Avaricum in the general council, whether they should decide that it should be burnt or defended.

The Court has given audience for a part of the last week to the debate of the suit brought against MM.

If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of truth; we should not in the least care whether the truth proved to be in favour of the opinion which we had begun by expressing, or of the opinion of our adversary.

The science of Dialectic, in one sense of the word, is mainly concerned to tabulate and analyse dishonest stratagems, in order that in a real debate they may be at once recognised and defeated.

Why should this be spoken of as "the sweeping clause?" Debate.

It is recorded that, after Appius Claudius laid the subject of debate before the meeting, and before their opinions were asked in order, Lucius Valerius Potitus excited a commotion, by demanding permission to express his sentiments concerning the state, andwhen the decemvirs prevented him with threats by declaring that he would present himself before the people.

Compare, for example, the first expression of Rosalynde's love with the internal debate of Mrs. Haywood's Placentia.

gainst whome? Cl. Oppression, frawde, rudenes, reproch, synn, shame, debate, discourse, theft, rapine, contempt of religion and breach of sanctury, against a magazine of misdemeanors and a whole monopoly of mischeif.

The statesman, in the moment of debate, and in the dignity of conscious power, finds sympathy and encouragement in a passage of his favorite epic.

In the debate on this resolution, though the southern members of Congress did not professedly retreat from the ground hitherto maintained by themthat Congress has no power by the constitution to abolish slavery in the Districtyet in the main they silently drew off from it.

In the debate on this resolution, the southern members of Congress silently drew off from the ground hitherto maintained by them, viz.that Congress has no power by the constitution to abolish slavery in the District.

Those who justify negro slavery by the curse of Canaan, assume all the points in debate.

In the debate in Congress on the memorial of the Society of Friends, in 1790, Mr. Madison, in speaking of the territories of the United States, explicitly declared, from his own knowledge of the views of the members of the convention that framed the constitution, as well as from the obvious import of its terms, that in the territories "Congress have certainly the power to regulate the subject of slavery.