Alexandria Gazette

The Ruling Passion.-With due deference, it is our settled conviction, that the Hon. Bedford Brown is "as mad as a March hare" on the subject of Banks, and the general politics of the country. No matter what subject comes before the Senate, whether or not it has the slightest connection, with Banks or Politics, the Honorable Senator hangs a Speech on it, and vents his spleen to his heart's content. It was only last week, that on a bill to amend the School Law, he went into an elaborate dissertation of matters and things in general, lugging in a comparison between the expenditures under Mr. Van Buren's last year of Administration, and the first year of Whig rule- that is, which commenced in Whig, and ended in the worst sort of Loco Focoism. And, on Thursday last, Gen. Dockery introduced a bill to incorporate a little Light Horse Company, somewhere in Robeson or Richmond, and to the utter amazement of every body, Sir Bedford rose in his stirrups, and attacked the bill on its first reading, a thing of itself, wholly unparliamentary.- He mounted the Light Horsemen, but soon jumped on to the Banks and other Corporations, and having demolished them, turned Quixotte like, on Log Cabins, Coon-skins, &c. &c. Every Senator looked, as though he thought-

To laugh, were want of manners and of grace,
Yet to be grave, exceeds all power of face!

[Raleigh Register.