The proceedings in the Ho...
Tle proceedings in the House of Commons last night ,with re-pect to the recognition of the inidependence of the Soauth American States, was less Interesting than might have been expected. Inreply to Sir JTAEs MACINTeSU'S speech, LIr. CANNING indiCctted. that no change haa taken place, and that our Govirniment still rested on its former decearations; but, after he had sat down, as women are said to impart the moa important intelligence in the postscripts of their letters, he rose again to say, that we had refused anew to becomne a party in a Congress of the great Powers, for the arrangement of the difFerences between the South Arnerican States and old Spain. Now, it may be very true -that no important change, no crisis has arisen in the affairs of South America, calling for an immediate and formal re- cognition; but yet it maybe oserved, in the werds of Lord BACON, that time itself, by its silent lapse, is tbe greatest innogvtor: it hath in this instance produced a change, for if the revolved Stateshave made no approach to a re-union, they are for that Terv cause the more dissevered, because they have-coutinued ionger in a ztate of sepgaration: and nfficient time has now surely been allowed to the mother country to obtain, if she pleased, the grace ancd merit of the fist recognition.