The Usury Bill was thrown...
l h'Je Usury Bill was-thrown out on Tliursday nighPty a I yice of generalship. "We do not feel any particular regret I at this reslt, as- the m'asure has scaroely beicudisc:icsed enouigh, atnd as it is pretty sure to pass at no very distalit period. But there is one ludicrous circumstance connrcted with the- opposition to this bill which we cannot forbear to notice: which is, that the country.gentele n, iwhorI it is intended to serve, and whom1 in every body'sopinior but their ovwn, it cannot fail essentially tor server arj the loudest. and most pertinacious in. their oppositiontg it. We know lhow- to value that " vi: iiwerti o e preju- dice which resists the innovations of genius .anJ knowr- ledge, which are someaines too eager to get at a- sults without waiting forx;heconviction -of the genieral un- derstanding; but vwe or KehIao?t incliDed, to doubt the usc- fulness of this resisting medhri,wlern we see cleat ease of advantage, backed, t6o, by the 'authority of courts of law for more than a century, rejected wvith such abhorrence. If poor Lord I,oNioxDnRay had been alive,.he might, without any fear.of ridicule or off%ece, bave stamped the oppositi.l to this measure with his stigma -of CC ignorint " impatietim" e