Gag Discussion

You will have received an account throijgh Ihe public papers of the course pursued in reference to the Gag Rule, and its rejection by a vote of 112 to 108. The south vvere most greviously disappointed in the resultof the vote, and they are now nearly all united in an effort to reconsider the vote. Mr. lngursol, of Pennsylvania, moved a reconsideration, and he has commenceda most violent and abusive speech against abolition, treating it as a British seditiun to overthrow our government, and exhorts the South' to be vigi'ent, or their instiiutions will be underminded. He says they ought to take higher ground than they ever have done, and he will bustain thern.In ihe courseof his remark3, he called upMr. Adams, to explain what he had said on a former occasion in relation to the right to abolish slavery in the case of a servile war. Mr. Adams repeated thal in case of an insurrection, if the tree North should be called upon to aid in suppressing a servile war, such a contingency wuuld have happened, as would give the government a right to inlerfere with the domestie iasti utionsof the So„th, and the ireaty-making power might then be equivolenl to the power of declaring universal emancipation! and that he would now add that if' they rencwed the gag and said the iNorth had no right topetition because it had nothing to do wilh slavery, then he held the North to be ahsolved from any constitutional obligation to aid in suppressiag insurrections! These declaratious were listened to with intense interest by members from the slaveholding states, who might be seen all over the House, half rising from their seats, withlheir bodies bent forward, their brows knit, lips compressed, faces colorless, and each a hand behind his ear to aidin catching every word. The instant Mr A. closed, the scène was terriffic. The utmost agitation prevailed through the Hall - cursings and reviüngs were heard in every quarter, and the House adjourned.Extract from a letter of Wcndell Phillips, daied, Naples, April 12, 1841. 'Tis a mclancholy tour, this, through Europe; and I do not understand how any one Qan return from t, without being, in Coldridge's phrase, 'a sadder and a wiser man.' Every reflecting mind must be struck, at home, with the many social evils which prevail around; but the most careless eye cannot avoid seeing the painful contrasts which sadden ono here at every step: - wealth beyond that of fairy tales, and poverty all bare and starved at its side: - refinement face to face wiih barbarism; cultivation which hardly finds ruom to be, crowded out on all sides bj so much debasement. I have been surprised to find so much faith in Catholicism as seems to exist among the Italiana, even those who make what is called the higher classes. Men and women of every rank, and with every appearance of sincerity, really crowd the churches. Amid the regret with which a Protestant witnesses such a fact, there is much to admire in Ihe democratie method of Catholic worship. No 'sit thou here,' and 'stand thou thero' spirit classes out tho audience - no hateful honeycomb of pews deforms the church. The beggar in rags, the peasant in nis soiled and labor-stained homespun, kneel on the broad marble, side by side with fashion and rank, right under the hundred lampa which burn constantly at the high altar of St. Peter's; and this, all unnoticed, and seemingly unconscious of any difference between himself and his fellow-worshippers. This is as it should be: here at least Rome preserves the spirit of the early ages. 'Twas well said, 'I love the ever open door, That welcomes to the house of God; I love the wide-spread marble floor, By every foot in freedora trod,' One pardons much for such a trait, and I have lost half my dislike to the wearisomely frequent priestly dress, since I have seen it worn by a colored man, who I mingles freely with those about him, and ( was not tared at as a monster when hfi ' entered the frowning portal of the ' janda College at Rome.