Daily National Intelligencer

WASHINGTON.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9.

From England, we have, by way of New-York, one day's later News than we have heretofore had. A London paper of the 31st August, however, affords nothing in addition to our former stock of intelligence. The trial of the Queen is going on, but very slowly; the examination of one or two witnesses occupying a whole day's sitting.

There is no calculating when the trial is to end; perhaps not for many months, as the House of Commons will have it all to go over again, should the decision of the House of Lords be against the Queen.

Some of our readers, we understand, are disappointed, nay, perhaps displeased, at our declining to publish the particulars of the testimony, &c. on this trial. We were never more clear as to the correctness of our course, than on this occasion. These details are not fit for a newspaper; and we will not be instrumental, knowingly, in contaminating the purity of morals by which the females of this country, in a general view, are remarkably distinguished. The evidence is of such a nature as any editor would be hooted out of society for publishing, if it had occurred in a suit between individuals in one of our own courts; and, in our view, it does not at all change the nature of it, that the party accused in the present case is invested with the glare of royalty. It gives us a strong idea of the nature of this testimony, that parts of it are too gross to be published even for the London papers, where every particular is sought after with the greatest avidity.