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the court should be empowered to do the act for him, and set the prison doors open for his release despite of his own perverse ob. stinacy.—(Hear.) The returns moved for showed that the number of persons confined for contempt!' fmm 1812 to 1820 were twenty in number. One had been confined for 35 years--two for 14. He knew himself one very singular cm of a person, who, though confined for 19 years, still obstinately refused to avail himself of the offers of service made to obtain his liberation. Since 1820 eight only had been in custody for contempt.--one of whom, a member of Lloyd's, was so obstinately bent on continuing in prison, after seven years confinement, that though the attorney could not be found who procured his commitment, he had actually recourse to a false affidavit of debt to prolong his continued incarce ration in a prison where he had become domiciled. In the year 1827 there was but one person thus confined for contempt. and his was a case of voluntary and obstinate confinement. Of all those in confinement he could safely say there were now none whose cases might not be considered, and their persons released from confine. ment, within a fortnight after the passing of this bill. The hon. and learned member concluded by moving for leave to bring in a bill to consolidate and amend the laws in existence relating to the enforcement of payment of debts chargeable on real estates. Mr. HUME admitted the value of the nonourable and learned gentleman's suggestions or. the important improvement he medi tated in a branch of the law to which he begged to remind the house he himself had in vain called its attention so far back as the year 1821, when lie obtained returns on the subjct. In 1823, he again had called the attention of the house to the subject, when the pee. sent Lord Chancellor had expressed himself in favour of the practice of compelling persons in contempt to fulfil the decrees of the Court of Chancery, whom he denominated victims often to their own obstinacy, and not to the indignation of violated laws. lie hoped that the spirit of improvement would not stop bete, and that the Solicitor General would follow up so laudable a precedent in the other branches of our law,which loudly called for reform and improvement. He was glad that reform bad come at any time, but he must say that it might as well, but for the shameful neglect of the present Chancellor's predecessor, have been effected any time within these ten years past That neglect of the public interest he must condemn as disgraceful to that high fuectionary, who had it in his power, perhaps more than any Lord Chancellor, to have affected this most desirable reform. The ap. peal had been made to that noble lord in vain, in 1819 and in 1820, by himself, when the case came on of a poor old woman, who had trot only suffered an imprisonment of 31 years, through the iniquity of the law, but had actually died in prison, an object of general compassion, within its walls. The SOLICITOrt.GENERAL and Mr. HOME explained. Lord AI/PM/RPM: supported the motion, and regretted that the improvement had not been adopted in preceding years. The country would not fail to contrast the conduct of the present with the late public officers in that department of our establishment, much to the disadvantage of the predecessors of the present noble Inrd,and the lion. and learned gentleman, to *hem the country was, he hoped, about to be so essentially indebted. Sir C. IVETH Elt ELL confessed that, after the sweeping at tack which had been made on the late law officers of the crown, lie felt it his duty to take the honourable member for alontrote a little to task for the 'aches of which he himself had been tor so many years guilty. (A laugh and hear, hear.) How was it that the honourable member did not interest himself in the in. gully instituted into these matters by the committee on the Chan cery Court, on which occasion that distinguished lawyer, Lord lel. don, equallized himself with the youngest barrister, and the merest tym in the law, in his anxiety to investigate every proposi tion which be deemed useful ? That roble lord had so completely the interest of the inquiry into his court and its practices at heart, that he exnressed his determination to assist on all occasions when his advice or legal knowledge might be of advantage to the cam. mi.tee, and to withdraw from it the moment subjects were enter. tainid wherein it might be esteemed desirable to allow the rein to he thrown more freely on the tuck of discussion. After thus glancing at the promptitude and anxiety of that illustrious individual who was as amiable as a man as he was distinguished as a great lawyer to improve that court, he would ask how it wits that in his mighty designs to reform the reptmentation, the church, the state, the ex cise, the army and navy, nobody heard of the cooperation or acti. vity of that ever.prying, never-failing, sempiternal, omnigenous, encyclopedical reformer, the hon. member for lilontroee. The noble lord row reproached with Inertness, or worse than inertness, did every thing in his power, on tout occasion, to increase tln juin d;ction of that commission, to which th e h on. member would not tuontribute the mite of Isis intelligence. The honourable member seemed either not to know, or to forget, or be ignorant of the value of the noble lord (Eldon's) improvement of the law, for which every Man of landed property in that House would; or, at least, should te grateful. He alluded to the important change in the law, relative to levying a fine and suffering a recovery, in order to dispose of an estate. Or was it possible the honourable member could forget 'the improvement that noble lord suggested in the practice of the court of Chancery, relative to executors ? To that noble ler' they were indebted for the abolition of the practice of a frau. dulent executor obtaining some friends to bring an injunc tion against his distributing the property committed to hie charge ; and the affidavit which began from that time to be required, according to the practice of that:Court, was the means of eetesting the too frequent recurrence of a practice so injurious to >uirors there. Theexecutnr before that had the power of keeping ender this pretext, 50,000/. or 100,000/. for years in [mulct, as the Honourable Reformer of slontrose had kepi the Chancery Returns tie boasted he had moved for in his pocket—(A 'argil.) As far as the general principle went, it had his entire approbation. It was a great improvement of the law to determine that when a person was prevented by poverty or bad advice, or even by contumacy, there should be a person empowered to do far him what the Lord t bencellor might decide to be necessary. r. O'CONNELL complimented the solicitor-general on the (Warts he had niude to amend the abuses of die law. lie defended tire lion. member for 51ontrom from the remarks made by the last speaker upon his omission to attend the commission. What could that Iron member do there? What had the commission dune? How much had it coat the country ? Perhaps die hon. meniber for Mon. nose could tell the house. What had Lord Eldon done, during the many years he had ant in the court, to reform these abuses? He had brought in a bill to do away the fees on fines and recoveries, and a bill regulating the common pleas: this was all ho had done during the 2.. yearn he had been chancellor (no no); and this was a ground for eulogium ! He had hot done in 25 years what the solicitor-general hid done in so short a time. le are was then given to bring in the several bills. t881•E OP nOLD Mr. ATTWIN'tI) mile to move for a return of the issue of sove r,igas and halt sovereigns nom the Ist of January, 1826, to the 31st Verember, to 1 , toot inclusive, distinguishing the amount paid, the ieceived, and the balance. The hon. member proceeded, 5.0101 , 4 NN.iC ttois.2 and interruption, to comment upon the state ierin of the Duke tot Wellington respecting the quantity tif money • Ii circulation. The noble duke had stated that the amount in zit. ciliation Y.:11465MM 0 0 0/. 'Phis, lie conceived, FM impossible ; and It was important to obviate such mistakes, because upon there state. ark not the most important political measures were sometimes founded. Up such statemelos did a forma Chancelkir of the Exchequer found !hose very wafture% which were the cause of the pretient clistreits.— Meat, Isar.) He told the country that we were in sight of the out, that a little liminess and another effbrt would make us to leech it. The ministers went on, amidst the distress and salami. has of the pimple, an d to ld t h e country that there taunt be no in quiry ; that they liwl nothing to do but to s'iut their eyes, and meccas WAS certain. (Bear.) What confidence. then, could the• bons., bsve in the siatentents of !if iniaters i' It • had been said by a . ',mat pttilo.ophet , that firmness was no useful quality %M. 6sa mooed with prtitt wisdom. (near, hear.) lie warned the go % ritimett i.f die consequences of their proceeding; they had involved the country in greater =lentil: is than it had ever known, and had sceamulated nil their own heads a greater wrigitt of responsibility roan any gi.verimit et Os parliament had ever iiicarred. The noble duke had asserted that there W;e4 now 65,1011,0001. in circulation; gist 'hire was thetefore no need of any addition to it, for !elm it was as much as the country wanted; and the Chan. Cei;dle at the Exchequer said there was as much now as in IVA. but whatever ntuney was circulating in a country most he it the possession of its inhabitants ; and hi (Mr. . 1 t rime.) uttild ask the different classes whether they found it. wax ? tic :toted ask the landlords whether they gist the .awe rents as tinmerly— the merchants the faille profits ?—whether the mama. uciurtra paid the same wages? Were the receipts sit the monied ilittiest the same as two years ago ? Did the I acitequer get as ettich ? Did it not get 20,0110,000 i.: less ? Notwithstanding the go a t quantity of sovereigns in the country, the labourers got uutii of them. Instead of money they got shoes, and hats, and coats. A. case hail been stated to him, on the beat authority a in• which a labours rya:iced. fur •a week's wort, a joint of mutem ; and having a child which he wanted to have christened, he carried the child and the joint to the clergyman, and desired 'hint to .cut • If as mucleas would pay the bair banal •fee: (A laugh.) it -tire non y was really in the annul% and nut its the hands of the Mhos Litton*, it was a daunt/dance worthy of inquiry by a committee where the 'stoney lay. if *such• a totinnittice- were' not agneal . u. motion would tend to solve that' cornintieum,—thaecnigett mt t he Duke sit Wellington, which Mid.' been put forth to a m u s e t h e purple at thlk pitied of 'distrait.. The minutiae or the noblo-ddke was this: lit assumed thht Wirth! Iteriteigna wliklitad'beentiseued; s4l,t sit million s which had been expertte.willibuttlie knowledge of the Bank, remained ifi circulation: :Stitt:UO*64oll6 of sovereign RMIS place unknown to the tient.. • 14. bearded Jdly 181114,/and W. " 1 "/ler,1825, 6,oooteMbhad•been -exported Maw Ilitrlbunceel Hank, was it possible to conceive diming/Ili fa Belida wthrhot etported unksowa to them?. Then; did abbetabientects, who lived foreign COMillitat cars; away, no •asnarslgttalf It waa well bust. mat th e sma ll teasels that voned4fie•wessararpost of lfig. ith eggs, butter and cnbei things, * carried imict nothing but gold. Since the abolition of that laws rail& prohibited the expor tation of coin—one of those impeoremmats upon the barbarous igno rance of our ancestors, which we owa to the political economists of the present day, but which he &could name owe to regard as • most Impolitic measure—one of its consaqummes was, that as it made the ri ps , melting of the coin legal, it became adran to the manu facturers, the jewellers, the refines, and the alwaysto sup ply the gold they wanted Out of effendi= than bars of geld. Both were at the same price, but the soveretigns were man conve. nient and more divisible. Instead of sending to Loudon for bars of gold, they therefore melted down sovereigns which were convenient in another respect, inasmuch as the alloy they contained was useful in the manufacture of buttons and other sticks. Thus there was a constant flow of sovereigns to the manufacturing districts, for which the government had not allowed, but had assumed that all the sovereigns issued but 6,000,000 were still in existence. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER complained of the inconsistency of which the hon. memb er f or C a lli ngton was gu il ty, In stating that all the returns which had been presented to Par liament respecting the amount of the currency were fallacious, and in concluding his speech with a motion for a fresh return which was but a continuation of a former return on which the former judg ment of the House had proceeded. He protested against the sweep. ing assertions which had been made by the hon. member against the accuracy of.the statements made by such members of the govern ment as were specially bound by their duty to examine closely into these matters. He thought that he should be able to show that the hon. member himself had been guilty of errors not a whit less im. portant than those of the Government against which his speech was so pointedly directed. The foundation of the hon. inember's speech was a speech which had been recently delivered in another place bythe noble duke at the head of the administration. That speech contained a comparison of the mutant of the circulation at the time when the Bank restriction was in full force, with its amount at the present moment. The comparison was founded on documents of a corresponding nature for the two periods ; therefore any error which nigh occur in itwould be of trifling and inconsiderahle importance. In such cases, all that could be done was to approximate as closely as men could to the truth, and to see that the data used in the compari son were of a similar and corresponding nature. The hon. member had stated that the Duke of Wellington had urged the amount of the cis. culation at present as an excuse for not examining into the causes and extent of the existing distress. To that statement he must, with all respect to the bon. member, give a most positive denial. The noble duke was replying to those who thought that the existing dis. tress could be cured by an unlimited circulation of that which was not the coin of the country, but a fictitious substitute for it; and as a proof that the distress had not been incurred by the suppres. sion of the small paper in circulation, had instituted a comparison of the amount of coin now in circulation, and of that which was in circulation during the Bank restriction act. The honourable mem. her represented the noble duke to have declared that every sovereign coined at the !dint, bating six millions, were now in circulation. Now he begged leave to say that the noble duke had stated no such thing, l'he noble duke had stated that there were twenty. six millions now in circulation; but the noble duke knew as well as he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) knew, that the total amount of sovereigns coined was 44,800,0001. In that surplus of more titan 16 millions, the hon. member wou ld fi n d the awirces of that supply on which had dilated with PO much perverted ingenuity. The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to contend, that so long as the foreign exchanges were in favour of England, there was no danger of gold going abroad as an article of merchandise. It was a gratuitous assumption to suppose. but not a more gratuitous assump tion than many of those in which the hon. member had himself in. dulged--that those who were engaged in there:mile transactions would, for the mere sake of amusement, carry abroad a great mass of our circulation. He admitted that gentlemen might take out a small quantity of gold with them when they left this country; but he denied that when they went to live entirely abroad, their rents were remitted to them in sovereigns. Even if that should be the case, which was most improbable, he thought that the house would aver with him, that so long as the exchanges were in favour of England, those sovereigns would find their way buck to us • and fur this reason,—that they would b e a s p ec i es o f remittance wh ich could be made herewith advantage. He would not deny that when the ex. changes were unfavourable to us, it was probable that the greatest quantity of coin would he exported. It was impossible to say with accuracy to what extent the exportation would be carried, that could only be matter of calculation. The basis of the calculation must rest, however, upon this principle—that when the exchange was against us, every sovereign would go abroad. This was rot an unfair cal.. culation : if it was sopposed that sovereigns were colleeted;for the purpose of exportation, the vacuum would have to be supplied by larger draughts upon the Bank ' • and supposing gold to be exported more largely than it w as drawn from the Bank, then, as in favoura ble times, he took it fur granted that there was no greater amount of geld in the country than was issued by the Hank, so, in unfavour. able time, he must takejthe quantity of gold exported to reach nearly the same amount. The hon. member for Calderon had made, how. ever, soother notable discovery. He had found out that at the close of die war there were in circulation no less than 10 millions of guineas. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) did DM know on what authority the hon. member made such an assertion. The house must be as well aware as he was, that during a considerable period of the was the guinea was worth 38s.,—that there was wgreat demand for them on the continent fur the purpose of melting,—and that the exportation of them being then prohibited, whatever was done either to export or bring them back, was equally contrary to law. He alluded to this circumstance, bemuse the how member seemed to suppose that there had been a gnat importation of gui. areas at the close of the war. The guineas then in circulation were afterwards called in, and the Outage of them for. sovereigns, which then took plate, amounted 4,000,000—a sum which the noble duke had nouns d as the baste of his caladatiosis. Another objection, which the hon. member fur Calluigeen had started, was the dif. *mice in the amount of country bank-notes in circulation in 1825, as stated by the Duke of Wellington and by him (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) iu a speech! which he had made last year. The hon. member had stated, that he (tlte Chancellor of the Exchequer) had deelire•i iu tilt 0,3111i011 to be, that the amount of small notes in circulation did nut exceed 2,500,000 How was that to be reconciled, asked the hon. member, with the declaration of the Duke of W e llin g t on , t h at it rea ched 8,000,000? Here, again, he must beg the honourable !limiter fur Callington to remem ber, that the statement of the noble duke was one of nure•com. Feriae?). lie had taken the number of notes which had been stamped for a certain number of years before 1817, and wtrik. ing an average, had talon it as the amount of the circulation at that time. In estimating the circulation at present, he had taken the number of notes, which had been stamped for the same number of years, previously to the present, both one pound notes and those of a higher value, and then he: had deducted trout the number the number of the lower testes which had been withdrawn from circulatiost. That, undoubtedly, and of necessity, would be an etruneotsa calculation as to the amount of country bank notes iu Ambition; fur they all knew that in the number of notes so stamped during Inc last tour years a great quantity had been withdrawn from caculuation, whilst others had been discredited front the failure of those who issued them • and therefore the number of notes actually in c i rcu l at i on fell :hurt of what it 'appeared to be on the lint caleulatton. The Mull would perhaps recollect that in 1828 lie had publicly declared ;hat the withdrawal of tht 11. notes would lead to an extended circulation of the 5L notes, and that what ever inconvenience might be felt by the withdrawal of the inferior circulation would be made tip by a larger issue of the higher. The hon. member toe Calliope's doubted the accuracy of that statement. He would therefore read a atatentent of the notes which had been stamped at various periods to show that what he had calculated upon had been verified to no inconsiderable: degree. The *heli um of the 1/. nom took' place on the Itch day of April, 111:0J; and if the house would allow hint to read the amount of notes stamped in the various quitters preceding that period, they would see mist effect the approach of that abolition had produced upon the paper circulation: la the quarter endm g th e 5 h o f April, 1827, the autount of bf. notes stamped was 3 / 3 2,0001. In the quarter ending the sth of July, in the same year, it wits 244,0001. (tn the 10th Oct. 1827, it was 285;0001. t au thin bth Jew. I 28; it was 317,0001. On the 28th of April it was 318,0001. (In the sth of July it was 2311,8804 On the hush of October It was 408,0001. and then, as the period was approaching at which- thell. notes were to be withdrawn, the effect. of that regulation became visible; for on the bth ot Jan. t re ailment or W. nano! was 867,41e04. and on the sth of April 73i,000:. making in dime two quarters which i tttt nediately precedes the withdrawal of the U. notes. a surplus. over the amount of the two which preceded them, of 1,600,0001. over 700,0005 He made that statement, bemuse it was• a subject en which doubts had been expreamd, and • tin: which than doubts had been a inctiontai by the authority of the honourableanesaber for Calliugton. It was wily tight to add, that shortly afterwards the - amount oflivepound•tonts thus :bumped fell to nearly their Mawr •level: lie had now, goats through all the points in the lionuurable member's 'peach which he conceived worthy ref notice. (Hear, hear.) There was one other point, however • which he ulnae mention, lest the honour a bl e mem b er s h ou ld be however, into an erne by. the • ?reduction -of -the' very • paper for which he had been menage Mae paper -would i wily • show the amount of geld. which bad been• put- him: circulation by. die Husk: of EsigitueL New the Memel& number auustbe sea* tilt fear last•year and a liallthe Mint had-been-coisting wavercisim;fue every indivoluak who -had taken - Milian to it. lie sheidurt thou* it nglit to infisto the boo.: somber that: the Dumber vi surreicipit thus added. to theicineoladoola the last yeer andta half - aniounteito i,700,000. lie 'Multi:Mee bien IstippY tabu* dilemmad thti mint aeo: altar theme:rim which the bon member ttasi•jostsnosed worplitead upiet she labia • but. thetium•inisible .had-dialieteged tam trasolarimion, and he, wavy .titeseilkecteuipeitedotei two it.- He Amid two be atheist mane" the hem gietlibmweirrbill qu►staeoraitsrle bmkolbosinea the urformitosefof. whiatinbe was eta ; tocetreciter was dim atm. iniondeasin would: bserritemall :are yusiamis Which by Rea diet eight advanced b.lore the hum The hod. member bad committed several errors in the erszas "ij. speech ; but he was sme that they arose from want a and not from any desire to misrepresent the causes ads distress of the (*nary. Mr. BARING felt ft necessary to make oat or two obsenra. dons on a statement which had been made elsewhere, and which had abated great surprise in every quarter to which it had penetrated. Sates:ram of that kind were made more positively than eau. rattly for though the right honourable gentleman opposite had stated fairly enough the grounds of his calculation, it was, In his opinion, impossible for any one acquainted with the movanent coin in the country to ascertain with precision the amount of gold in circulation. To show that• his statemeat was correct as to the in creased amount of the issues of li!. notes a short time previous to the suppression of the I/. notes, the right bon. gentleman had stated, that in two quarters they amounted to 1.000,0001. being an excess of 900,000/. over those issued in the two preceding quarters: but the right hon. gentleman had, at the same time, admitted that they had afterwards fallen to their former level. Now he was of opinion that the right boa. gentleman would have acted more tidily, if he had attributed that increase to accidental circumstances. and net to any fixed cause. He thought with his hon. friend that a large quantity of the gold had disappeared from the circulwitin ; for it was notorious to all persons, that the coin of the country was now thrown into the melting-pot by out goldsmiths instead of bullion.— (Hear.) lie therefore recommended parliament to look, not only at the amount of the gold coin in circulation, but also at the cx. pause wh ch it cost the country. The question of seignorage was one on which much doubt existed. In foreign countries, and espe cially in France, the coining was done at the expense of the master of tile mint, whereas in this country the master of the mint was fouad to be rather an expensive article.—(A laugh.) IVltenever there was a great demand for gold abroad, our sovereigns were immediately laid hold of ; and that circumstance affected_ not only the foreign exchanges, but also the market price of gold in this country. When he heard that the value of commodities wax reduced from 100,000,0001. to 60,000,0001. in this country he was afraid that there must have been a reduction in the same proportion in our cir culation. As he was not aware that this question was to come under consideration that evening, he was not prepared to go further into it at present; nor was it necessary that he should, as his honourable friend's motion was merely to get figures as data for conclusions, and not to arrive at any conclusions for the present. He had been accused, and perhaps might be again, of making half his speech on one side of a question, and the other half of it on the other (loud cries of" hear,^ and a laugh ;) hut it was necessary that the facility of one side should be contrasted with the security of the other, and that an equal balance should be held between them. ATT WOO) replied, and reiterated all his statements, which, he contended, had been in no way invalidated by the state. ments that had been made by the right hon. gentleman °prole (the Chancellor of the Exchequer). The CHA NC ELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained. 'l'he motion was then put and agr.ed to, and the several returns moved for by the hon. member mdered. SUPPLY. The CH ANCE 14 LOR of the EXCHEQUER of the day, for the house resolving itself into • Committee of Supply. Mr. R. GORDON, adverting to the promise contained in the speech from the throne as to the system of economy which it was intended in future to pursue, said he had a question in reference to that subject, to put to the right hon. gent. the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Such hon. members as happened to be magistrates must , have been in the habit of signing affidavits made by half-pay officers' on receiving their pay,in which affidavits they swear that they are not in the possession or receipt of the emoluments of any civil em. ployment whatever under the Crown. He wished to know from the right honourable gentleman, whether in fact the servants of his Ma jesty, who at present held military rank as officers in the army, and' who were in the receipt of the emoluments attached to their civil employments were also in the receipt of their military pay, or whe thee the regulation in question extended only to half-pay officers, and did not affcct officers on full pay. Ile believed the impression was, that the regulation also affected officers on lull pay, who would be therefore liable to have their pay withheld while holding civil ai. tuations under the Crown; and he understood that the unattached general officers, amounting, he believed, to 130, were likewise con. sidered as upon fall pay. He conceived that, in times like these, the members of his majesty's government, who were in receipt of their full pay while holding office under the crown, would do a be. coming act in giving it up. lie sho u ld a l so exten d his inquiry to officers in the navy, and to general officers holding regiments. In point of fact, general officers holding regiments received under that head alone, 0001. and 700/. and frequently SUOL a year, in addition to whatever emoluments they derived from civil employments. lie wished to know whether it was a fact that particular members of the administration, and public servants of the crown, who were in the receipt of their civil allowances, continued to receive, at the same time, their naval or military pay ? The CHANCELLOK of the EXCHEQUER said the hon. member would have better obtained the information be desired by• moving for a return of the numberof officers in the receipt of civil al lowancea. As far as it was in his power, he (the Chancellor of the Ex chequer) would give to the lion. gent. all the information that he pos sessed on the subject. It was a fact that general officers holding regi ments did not forfeit their military allowance on obtaining civil employments, as the former had been given to them as re wards for military services, of which it would be hard to de prive them upon their acceptance of civil situations. Such, he be. lieved, had been the uniform practice from the earliest period. He was not aware that any half-pay general officers were in the civil service. With re-pect to the navy, he believed that the only officers receiving naval half pay while holding civil offices, were the two naval Lords of the Admiralty, and it had alw a y s been the custom to consider them as persons employed in their professional capacity, and who therefore did not forfeit their half.nay by holding such situations. Mr. Alderman IVAITH MAN would oppose the going into a cominium of supply at this late hour, and without having the no. cessars documents before them, illustrative of the state of the coon. try. lie should therefore move as an amendment that the house dO new adjourn. Mr. HU.IE was not inclined to move the adjournment of the House ' • but lie would suggest to the ri g ht h onoura bl e gent l eman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) the propriety of postponing at this late hour (past twelve o'clock) such an important motion. He recollected some few years ago the House adopted a very good as. solution, that of not voting a single shilling of money after 12 o'clook; and it was his (Ma. Hume's) intention, and that of other merrilieso; to enforce that salutary practise this session. He had been fame 1 o'clock that day in attendance in the house; lie should shortly he in attendance probably from I t o'clock till 12 at night, and ha really-thought that the public business should be brought on at se earlier hour in the evening. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained that this was a mere tonnal wote,--namely, that a supply should be granted, and until the house agreed to it, they could riot enter upon a discussion of the supply itself, nor could the public estimates be laid before them. He agreed as to the propriety of the practice of not voting money after 12 o'clock, but this was merely a formal vote, and he trusted the amendment would not be pressed. Mr. Alderman WA ITH 11A PI bad an objection to voting any supply until the dieseeerof the country was taken into eonakkratten. They should know what minister, intended to do before they granted any supply; he was not desirous to press his amendinetit, bat he trusted the motion would be postponed. Mr. PHEI. said it had been already observed, that an impression had gone abroad that they talked a greet deal in that house and did little, and the amendment was calculated to prevent them from doing any thing, for the estimates could not be laid before them, until they agreed that a supply should be g ranted. Th e motion, which was only pro ferwre, would have been made earlier but fur the discussion which had occupied the house. Lord ALT H ORP, though convinced of the necessity for eametny, and for the greatest possible reduction of taxation, at ad much as any honourable member, wired not oppose this deem! vote, which would enable the house to have the attn... WI be. fore it (ilear). Mr. Aid. WAi'IIIMAN said, he should net rest his mei& mot under such circumstances (hear, bear). The Alluvia of BLANDFORD—To the question you haW now put, Sir, I must age& say decidedly no. 1 will not consent to vote one shilling of the piddle money until the alarming state of the country be taken into censidiredien—.untilthb sufferings of tberopti be relieved...—until the 'slimiest they complain of be rearmed: It little concerns voe whether for ors acting I 'shall ha stigmatised matt. tious, or branded as a vettadelhe mpueens, . interrupting PrOeMdi!. which, without a nerliordwo adhra In Ibis house, I 'cannot Middy , avert. But my determididen is Ishii.: and as lam convinced that hie Majesty has been gromiy hermit upon and deceived as to the amnia the dimmers - of his !people, I Conceive that the belt mode of avrahlisting the royal mind ton follsemie of the es ister.ei of such ;distress Dew presents itself in the constitutional form of *Withholding Ishetneiplies about io be asked at our hands. I therefore move that thisthernte do now adjourn. The gallery was accordingly cleated, and the house divided, when there appeared, roe the autendrnent ... ... Against it ... ... ... 1111 . Majority against the amendment ... 141. • Oti, oar rooms to the galldry, we intend Mr. newt me Ms MA urging upon ministers die propriiity4Fbpiegteg fortrint the p modaerof. man , catty tom nod& vorning4 tied peeing' ari r e i fan keg tabs hemmed, the emiii.till nor Ifweitiat et L .. Mr. tbr;i4 rani ersu_die..aitigi citisted en t pan of n owl .his colleague, w beig gimp!!; - the ptitdo busimm nreitirlind with thV.dreeloiry arthe' tintless . reitit le .the:treoilig; but if'dm rionsibera 4444 Gorsitimest win to ittifit upon irtry usemiutr *pelf their right to mite preettlenco of 'edicts with . Mo. pubilli" many Win. gut mirt.to suaki be prevented from bringing *mei pal. . ; • Tate bills, or pilitlami 3-miont of great public interest and utility. There was no divaiiiom lie could assure the hon. member, oath:: part of the Gorernmert, to force on the publk Indines., or to take tho house at all unawares. Mr. BUME suggested thstwaroedays should be fixed when th: Public businese. should take! precedence °teem-thing eke. Mr. PEEL said it was already understood that upon Fridaysand ~Mondays the treasury business took precedence of all other matters. and he would repeat, that there was every disposition on the part of the government to bring forward money. votes at the earliest possible hour in the.evening. Mr. HUM E would understand, then, that no money votes woul.l 'be moved fur after twelve o'clock. lie was determined to adhere to I die good old practice of the late enemies for Coventry. who alw..y. kept Ws eye on the clock when it approached twelve, and after it had struck opposed the doing daisy further public business. By adhering to such a practice, hon. members would be able to get Sii their beds early, and tie public would be beneatted by having their business properly done. The original motion was then put, and agreed to, and the hewer resolved its'M into a cottunittee of supply, Sir A. Cirant in ti: , chair. The chsirman havirg read that part of his Majesty's speeett relating to the supplies, the following resolution was proposed by the Chancellor a the klehequer, and agreed to That it is th • opinion of this committee that a supply should b: granted to his Majesty.'' The house having resumed, the ruolution was reported to th house, a•id the report was ordered to be brought np to-morrow (this day.) BOROUGH OF CART ISE rIrOND. Mr. N. CALVERT presented a bill fee the prevention of bribery and corruption in the election of burgesses to sere.: in padiamei•t for the borough of East Retronl. Read a first time, ordered to be read n second time, and to be printed. 11,111VGIII LER* . FAMILIES. Lord OLORGE LENNOX presented a hill foe the relief of ps. fishes tram the expanre of supporting the families of latiugglrts, aho had been anal to serve on board his majesty's navy.--Itead ti.e first date, and ordered to be read the second time on Monday nex t. Mr. til oiE expressed his opinion, that a little more time ought to he given fur the consideration of this uieasuse. The Cbancellee of the f.xeliequer ought to allow every tacitly for esamining a measure which. was at all connected with the expenditure of the public money. Lord GEOKIII-E LENNOX add, if the hon. member had been present when he moved for leave to bring in the Lill, he would hat', seen that it had nothing to do with the public money. The.intent of the Lill was tp pmvide for the support of the wives and families of smugglers who were matt to melee in his majesty's navy t and tier that purpose it vas proposed that two.thirds ot their salaries, should be set apart. The bin was then ordered to be printed. Adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock. RESOLUTIONS PROPOSED 24Y LOND HOWICE, RESPECTINti BRIBERY AT ELLCTIOKS. That bribery has been repeatedly and habitually employed to it.- (thence the election of ineinhers of Parliament. That this fact has been often established, never denied, and was especially proved at the bar of this house, in the first session of the present Parliament, in the casts of Penryn and Hest Relined. That it is notorious that a similar 'nutlet Is openly resorted to in many of the cities and boroughs of the United Kingdom. That the recent disfranchisement of Grampound does not app:as to have in any degree diminished the prevalence of this evil. That the house, therefore, finding that the passing of specific bills directed againt particular casts, has neither had the effect of remov. ing the existence or arresting the progress of corruption, is of opi. nion that its character may best be vindicated by abandoning these useless and expensive preetedings, in order to adopt some general and comprehensive measure, the only means of effectually checking so sethaalous an abuse. HOUSE OF LORDS—Tina DAY. —. so _ Lord Holland—To bring forward a motion on the subject M Greece. HOUSE OF COMMONS—This DAN. ODDER OVTHS DAY. Supply—The Chancellor of the Exchequer, to moat " Tliat a Supply be granted.” :roller: OF MOTION. Sir J-mes GraltaM—To move that it be an instruction to the Committee of Supply to nuke a reduction of pay and salaries to the standard of 1796. LENT SPRING ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. (Before Mr. Justice PARK and Mr. Justice J. Pastas.) Durham--Tuesday, Feb. 23, at Durham. Westmorland—Friday, Feb. 26, at Appleby. Cumberland—Monday, Match 1, at Carlisle. Northumberland—Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Castle of NorthuntWei land. Town of Newcastle-on Tyne—Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Guildhall. of the same Town. Lancashire—Saturday, Match 6; at Lancaster. Vorkshire—Saturday, Alarch 20, at the Castle of Yak. City of Ditta—Same day, at the Guildhall of the same City. WESTERN CIRCUIT. (Before Mr. Justice GAZELLE and Mr. Jwitice.llosasestritT). Southampton—Monday, March 1, at the Castle of Wincbeeiss. Wilts Saturday, March 6; at New Sarum. Dorset—Friday, March 12, at Dorchester. Devon—Wednesday, March 17, at the Castle of Exeter. City and County or Exeter—Same day, Guildhall of Exerts. Cornwall—Thursday, March 25, stLauneeston. Somerset—Tuesday, March 30, at the Castle of Taunton. NORFOLK CIRCUIT. (Before Mr. Baron VAKIGUAX and Lord TZAIITILIMSN.) Buckinghamsnire—Monday, March 1, at Aylesbury. Bethordshire—Saturday, March 6, at Bedford. Huntingdonshire—Thursday. March 11, at Huntingdon. Cambridgeshlre—.Monday, March lb, at Cambridge. Norfolk.—Saturday. 3lureh 20, at Thetford.' • Suffolk-- Saturday, March 27, at Bury St. Edmund's. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TA TT E RSA LL'S. The Subscription Room win crowded yesterday, and ebb bating heavier than for the last six numbs.. Several fresh t Wo o um% booked for the Derby. Mr. Rusk's lot being in general desnat4 from 50 to I, which was laid about a dozen times. Lord Migi's Brine was backed freely at 30 to 1, leaving of at five points leis. There was little or no change in the first four fairourites; no indeed did the day's business, alt ho ugh exceedingly heavy, psodoc a .ny important resides. The following were theelosingpriass .9 is I apt Mr. Petre's Brooswiekei 9 so 1..-- Sir M. Wood's The Almoner 91 to Lord Cavrodish's Mouse too (takes) 91 to I Mr. Cialfney't Cressida colt (iskei) • 19•14 a Lord Clevelaid's Was Tykr• 13 to I Sir M. Wood's Cetus (taken) 17 to I Lord Meter** Mahnsoud (taken) 45' 10 1 Lb . rd Srfa.rh stl Cott . 13 to I. Lord Sligo's Brine 3o to 1 Mr. Itanishostont's Zarharall (taken) 30 to I Lord- Sekon's Moods, • 30 to 1 14 Egrrionest's Brother to Grampus, 30, iss 1 D. of Graftou's Raper 40 to I Mr. Pities The Major 40'10'1 —•—• Lord Tavistockla Coitard At, 1 Capt Arthur • 30 tel Snooks (token) 1 56 to I Mr. Shard's De Veraleallen) 30 to i GrUy'e Red Rover ; so to 1 Mr. Rash's lot (taken) Mk to •1 • Mr. Cbitney's Snarl (taken) . MD to SO Lord Gsoorptor's Thermometer . 1000 to IS -- Mr. Thionhill's Captive (satin) • 1000 to IS • •-•.— Lord Anna's p or i n k ease, 11 to fi agst Lord Firtton's Mouth, • • 11 to 1 -- Qtreroberry's Marla Is iv, 1.-- Mr Sorobawer's Lerway.,Wly gremileffeeimesse • . ENtract •of a letter from the *out to Lloyd's-et llbraltor, dated Jau. 21 t,—" B ea d * d a . S oto. I the • chief of tho pirates: of the Alors:i us. :Atm, was fol.ees h. trial 3 este, day sit o'clock' : sad continued tit 10 at night, when he was found guilty, and . senienteneed to t•r hanged on Monday, next; The et idente tuldiced toes prhs cipally cireunastantial; bet well cennectod. To leaidt4 complete, .Beyenuan, the. steward of: the Morning • *xi, swore positively as to the. prisoner being the ,tat k u who hailed that vess etiross thefirmicni brig on two. dif ferent mediations whole shit ringed tgongelde .. and gave ordite to the pirates whir the' rda. Sotttinitlitira hitillehed Vote*, and eknbtatitirmliipreemeil4e4Wito ootutetoreow of .his .. Hinting eittlhailailiate l'edtteed lien very tenet. -