Richmond Enquirer

DOMESTIC.

Washington, February 14.-The Debate on the Missouri Question yet continues, with unabated ardour in both Houses of Congress. In the publication of the Senate Debate, we have arrived to the Speech of Mr Pinkney At the time that Speech was made, our Reporter was prevented from attending by indisposition. As part of Mr. P's. Speech was taken down by a writer of short-hand. and he has not been able himself to assist us with any sketch bill, (although it is believed he will very soon do so,) we are compelled, for the present,to omit it any account of it, but may take a future opportunity to insert it in our paper. The Speech of Mr. Otis. the next. in the order of succession after that of Mr. Pinkney, will appear in our next.

We shall, in a day or two, commence the publication of the Debate on the same question, in the House of Representatives.

Nat. Int.

From one or two articles in the Richmond Enquirer. last received, we gather that there is some excitement among the Members of the General Assembly of Virginia, now in session, on the rumor, from Washington, of a project being on foot for a compromise of conflicting opinions. in Congress, on the Missouri question. There was, a few evenings ago, a meeting of Members of the Legislature, to nominate fit persons to compose the Republican Ticket of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, at the ensuing election. The meeting adjourned without effecting this object. to a future day, with the avowed intention of awaiting. before they came to a nomination. further information from Washington respecting the Missouri question.

What bearing this question is to have on the approaching Presidential election, we are yet to understand: though this is not the first intimation we have seen, in the public prints. of a relation of the one question to the other. But, since the subject of a compromise is mentioned, it may be proper to state, that there has been a good deal of conversation among the Members of Congress on this subject ; and that there are some of those most decidedly opposed to interfering with the Constitution of a new State in the mode proposed, who are not adverse to a prohibition of the future transportation of slaves into the Territories of the United States-meaning thereby the territory not included within any of the States of the Union. This is what is spoken of as a compromise. What will be the result, however, of this whole proceeding. is at present entirely uncertain.

Having mentioned the opinions in Congress on the Missouri question, this may be a fit occasion to say a few words respecting the vote in the Senate on the motion of Mr. Roberts to recommit the report of the committee which recommended the union of Maine and Missouri. We were, at the time, under the impression, that all the Members of the Senate who voted on that question in the negative were in favor of an union of the two States in one bill. We are now better informed and in consequence of the abuse levelled in some of the Eastern prints, at Mr. PALMER and Mr. PARROTT, we think it proper to state, that those gentlemen are not in favor of the proposed union ; that they voted against Mr. Roberts' motion because, in their opinion, it would determine nothing, but would have the effect to procrastinate a question which they preferred to meet directly as already presented to the Senate by the report of the Judiciary committee.