The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-14 00:00:00

the expenditere of the country, to be applied to the re auction of the debt ; if ep, they not only prevented 'eh taking off tales. should the Revenue increase, but in the event of its tailiog off, they prevented an increase of the Revenue. ll* putting on new taxes, proportionate to it. ditcreese, In the event of a decrease of the Revenue. they could not have recourse to Exchequer Bills and thus itspornc the 'Unfunded Debt, because by the resolutions of 1019, the incoroe of the country must exceed its expen atop, hy five milflions, if a deficiency should arise, he -zra not therefore see how it was possible to make good the Ave millions, beenusebyttese resolutions do recourse , could he had to borrowing. Gentlemen 'did not seem - aware of the length they wire going in givipg their their simpott to the Bill. Whether the surplus con- Meted of five or three millions was dot clearly tinder-. *rood, because there was not One paper produced .by which it could be discovered from whet source the five dtallliotis was derived. The Chancellor of the Exchequer must certainly be the best informed upon this matter, from the peculiae eoureesof information which he - pose tweed, bat as yet it was, enveloped in a mystery which ought to be removed. He was inimical to the Sinking Peind, and wished fora reduction, of taxes. Upon the latter ground, be principally ohjected to the resolutions, because they tied up the hands of Ptriameat from giv. In relief to the country, should an improvement of the Keeton afford such an opportneity. He did not ,see after assenting to this Bill, bow the house could with any doges* of consistency support the module of which an Hon. Friend of his had given notice for a reduction of taxation. He could not understand bow the two mil . lions said to be saved by the Half-pay and Pension Bill, was so arianged.as to become income, betiause so much must be hbrroweil within the year, and it wide no differ. core whether it was borrowed by Dwane of perpetual or tertnindhle annuities: It did not matter in what way money was tailed, oe to whet purpose it was to he con verted ; no iinelificallon raid make it become income. However the Chaheillot of the Exchequer could set the House upon a correct viest of this point by the produce' lion - of a single papir. should be glad to learn from the Right Hon. Gentlemen What was the real amount of I - surplus, because if the Heine pledged itself to mnintain a Sinking Fund of five millions, it was bound to adhere to that pledge, if not, it might apply an increase of Re -1 venue to a reduction of taxation. Suppose, according to the statement of the Right Honourable Gent., there was an actual surplus of five millions, be would be plod to know whether di no the income must continue tosexceed the expenditure by that sum? betause one of tee resolutions of 1819, stated—" That for the purple of providing for the reduction of the National Debt, it wee absolutely necessary that there should be a clear surplus beyond the expenditure of five millions." • If so, this pledged them not to make good a certain sum, but a surplus beyond tlicexpenditure, whatever it might be; of five millions. He therefore wished to learn from the Right Hon. Gentleman if the Revenue should so fall off as to cause a diminution of the surplus of five mallow, by what means be meant to make good the difference., The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could assure the House, that he was as anxious as the Right Hon. Geatleinan could be that the present measure should be fully understood. Ire would endeavour to answer the • two remarks of the Right Hon. Gentleman, though he could scarcely hope ever tir be able to express himself. with that al •arness which appeared almost peculiar to the Right lion. Gentleman.' He would first explain why it was thet'he considered himself entitled to assume a surplus of five millions this year. Speaking in round numbers, the total of income was .10 millions, after de ducting the two millions of taxes repealed. The enneal• expenditure, including the charge on the unfunded debt,' was 47 millions, leavtug a surplus of three millions. But he was entitled to calculate on the benefit to be derived by the sale of Annuities to discharge the haMpay pen sions; (though this calculation was, of course, made on the assumption that the plan would succeed;) and thus calculating. the benefit in question, being two millions added to the three, would make five millions. fie would explain this—lf, for instance, Parliament agreed with • the individual holders of this half-pay, to pay them two u i lilting and upwards, for forty-five years certain, instead of ninv paying four millions and upwards, with the chance of paying less as the different lives dropped, bow would the case amid? The four millions formed part of the 41, millions expenditure be had before mentioned ; and there fore that 47 millions would be relieved of two millions of the agreement. This, theo, would reduce the expendi ture to 45 millions, which deducted from the 50 mil l:rots of income, would still leave a surplus of fire mil. lione.• Arguing upon this hypothesis, and which he submitted he had a right to do, he would ask what pos sible difference there could be in substance which. .ever way the plan in question was reduced to-calcula tion? He contended that the five millions in question • formed a bone fide surplus applicable to the reduction of dell. He saw no mystery in the transaction, nor any thing of that wtiich, as applied to this question, had been familiarly called Isom pocus. The next question of the .Right Honourable Gentleman appesred to be " how was it proposed to guard against the consequence of those vi ta ssitinimi which must attend every public revenue ?"' Aod then the Right Hon. Gentleman assumed that fresh taxes must be imposed to supply any deficiency herraftet. Cer tainly it was impossible to regulate any Sinking Fund • with so minute in accuracy as to prevent the occurrence •of sash vicissitudes. The. Home in case.of a deficiency would not. in his apprehen4on, be bound down so tight es the Melt Hon. Gehtlemmi imagined. Neither did be 'think, that in treating of the. present Surplus, it was at all necessary to anticipate or provide for a future possible d e ficiency. To preeent such a deficiency be was free to adsnit, that upon mere financial grounds, he would ra tios. provide a surplus actually exc e e din g the sum he pro pesed toset apart for the reduction of the debt.. Its, how ever, he did not Vollic at the question upon mete financial grounds, be thought it better to give the country tbe be nefit of a remission of taxation down to the retention of the specific surplus. Five millions was, he thought, as low a sum as could reasonably be filed upon ; and beyond that he bad no• doubt the country would derive' Lenetit from the "emission actually made. The difficulty • suggested by the Right Honourable Gentleman. he (the . Chancellor of the Exchequer) was sanguine enough to helieee was very r :mote; and he had no doubt that his future consideration woold be drawn to the question (AA further retnission of taxation: and he could promise the Mouse that that consideration should be moist favoarably given. Mr. HUME contended that the Resolutions were not , consistent with the preamble of the Bill, and if the House allowed them to' pass they would stultify them.l 'elves by making• one part of the Bill contrary to the preamble. The Right Hon. Gentleman, on a former oc- - 1 1 motion, declared that any attempt to establish a Sinking' Fond without a real surplus was a mockery and a delit-1 sioo,and he could not conceive on what grounds - he now allowed the-Actto be so framed as to leave room for an I infringement of this principle. He, therefore, felt it his duty, as . thi only means of tytitg down the bands of the Chincellor of the Exchequer, to mbve as an amendment, That after the word annual, the words" Sinking Fund of five millions," contained in the Resolution as it now stood, be left out, and the following words inserted : " real surplus not excee:ting five millions, the amount of the same to be estimated by the. Look of the Treasury, to he increased or diminished in proportion to the increase or diminution of the Revenue. . • Mr. O. BENNET seconded the motion. Colonel DAVIES approved of the clause In the Bit which enabled the Muse to consider it again during the Session. He thought the measure ill advised,erhen the THR iTAT. probabilitiessof was were so great. The Hon. CientlernaP advertd to &plan. which by converting the three, direr. and a half, and fonr per cents. intofive per cents. not re deemable for a certain number of years, would make . a `eensiderable reduction in the capital of the debt, and still leave a surplits for reduction. Sir H. PARNELL observed that the principle of his : - plan of converting perpetual into terminable annuities, was chiefly founded on the objection to the Sinking I Fund, that it afforded a facility to Ministers of diverting it from its original purpose, and was an encouragement to extravagance, This objection his plan would com pletely obeiete, and he would, therefore, suggest to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to insert a clause in the Bill which would* empower the Commissioners to adopt his plan, whenever they, in the exercise of their discre tiou,•thought it would be most advantageous to the inte /este of the pubiV. Mr.MABERLY opposed the Bill upon generalgroands. He did not, however, suppose that any thing he could say would note have the effect of altering the determi nation or the Chat cellor of the Exchequer; yet he, did not see hoiv thy Right Honourable Oentleman could refuse hie assent to the amendment proposed by the Honourable Member for Aberdeen. He would still venture to bopp that the present Bill would not he pressed, till all the motions for the seduction of taxation were disposed oh Sir F. BLAKE said he was not against a Sinking Fund, if the country were in a proper state for such a measure. The present system was a mere fallacy, so far as it was .considered to operate towards the liquidation of an enormous debt. It was like taking a bucket of water out of a large reservoir which was abundantly supplied by the fountain head. It appeared that the Chaucellor of the Exchequer twit merit to himself for coming down to that House with a new Sinking Fund, which had all the defects of the old one which it was grafted— 11 Timeo Danaos et lona termites." What would he said of a married nian, who having three children, should say, " Well, I have now three children, hot, at all events, I'll have two more?—(A laugh.)— Would it not be slid that he • reckoned his chickens before they were hatched ?"—(Laughter.) Thus it was with the Chancellor of the Exciequer and his Sinking Fond of 5,000,0031. The Right Hon. (lent. reckoned on two out of the five millions, befoul be got them into his poisession. He (Sir F. B) wood certainly support the amendment, for be would much r.ther see the people re lieved from taxes than the amount of the Sinking Fund increased. The House then divided.—For lie original motion, 82 le-For the amendment, 38—Ma) orty 44. On our re-ndinission to the ("allay, we found The CMANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on his legs, submitting a motion to the House for the third reading of the Bill to-morrow, whim was agreed to after a'few words from Mr. blaberly. ASSESSED TLX The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mwved the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Assess ed Taxes Reduction Bill. Mr. MABERLY said he would, on an early occasion, take the sense of the House upon the guidon fur repeal- ing the whole of these taxes. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that this at least was a candid opposition . Mr. Alderman WOOD complained of the hardship which the proprietors of shops and warehouses were under, on being obliged to pay a guinea year for each person temporarily employed in them, not selling, not selling goods. He wished to introduce a clause for do ing away this oppressive tax, Mr. CURWEN was anxious that the whole or the Window Tax should, be repealed. Mr. HUME thought that a viatica ought to be introduced fur exempting window lights in small schools. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the schools now established for the education of the poor, were generally largo buildings, well lighted and ventilated. la most instances such buildings were ay. empted from the tax. Mr. HUME and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER briefly explained. Mr. Alderman WOOD then proposed his clause re specting persons employed in shops and warehouses. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob jected to it upon the ground that the question was now before the Judges, and he did not think that any le gislative measure should be adopted with respect to it pending the decision Mr. Alderman WOOD said a few words in explana dos, after which the clause was withdrawn. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. The King's Property Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Marriage Act Repeal Kill was read a second time, after a few words from Or. PIIIILLIMORS, Dr. LUSKIN°. TON, and Mr. ADSRCROMBY. It wrs ordered to be com mitted on Tuesday next, when it is understood the dis cussion will take pia- e. The Marine Mutiny Bill was read a second tittle, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. PINANC6 RtTURNII. Mr. HUME moved for returns of the semi receipts of the Revenue, exclusive of Loans, from the Lth January, 1/116, to the rnlrJ &nasty, 1823 ; also returns of the actual amount of expenditure, exclusive of the charges of the Sinking Fund, &c.—Ordered. IMP APPAINTICEe. Mr. HUSKISSON moved the Order of the Day for the House to resolve itself into a Committee, on the Act for regulating the number of Apprentices to be taken on beard merchant vessels. In the course of some observa tion% the Right Hon. Gentleman said that his object was to propose that all the traders in the co untry should be obliged to take a certain numb er of apprentices in proportion to the sire of the vessel. He should propose that every vessel of 80 tons up to 200 should bate one apprentice; and also that the term of protection , from impressment should be fool- years instead of three, as at present. He had consulted with the ship-owners and the Lords of the Admiralty on the subject, and be was happy to say that they entirely agreed in the measure be had in view. The Right Honourable Gentleman concluded by moving a Resolution to the effect, that leave be given to bring kr a Bill to regulate the number of ap prentices to he taken on board British merchant vessels. Mr. VERNAL expressed his approbation of the mea sure, and suggested a revision of all the laws relating to seamen, which he thought would confer a great be nefit on the commercial classes, and on the country in general. lily. RICARDO said a few words, which were bleu ii hie in the gallery. Mr. T. WILSON supported the Resolution, and, said. by giving encouragement and protection to seamen's ap prentices till the age of twenty-one years. the country would always have a nursery of active seamen at the least possible expense. Mr. HUME said he could not agree to all the ergo *rents urged by tie Right fion.Geatlemtn, and he hoped p, would pause before be hurried the Bill through the use. Mr. HUSKISSON said be had no wide to lorry the Bill. It had the approbation of the shipping interests of the country. Mr. RICARDO wished to know if the Right lion. Gent. was sure that the tailors themselves were satisfied with the proposed tonsure. He had so doubt bet their masters approved of it. . , Aftet t e w words from Me. ORRIVAL aftd Mr, PLUM MER, the Resolution Was agreed to. 3M~ r' • Irresumed, the Resolution was re p orted es given in pursuance thereof, to bring in . . ♦,arsons AT DLECTION B . Mr. H. "wass obtained leave to bring in a Bill for regulitingthe appointment of Assessors at Elections. LONDON BRIDGE. Ifr. Alil WOOD brought in a Bill for the rebuilding of Loadonaridge.—Reed a first time. The Home adjourned at a quarter before nine o'clock [UM OF THE LORE. CHIEF BARON. MIX . LENT ARMES, MARCH 13. We lament to st%te that the LORD Ciller Bartow was last night Wien exceedingly - ill, and it was announced this morning that bis Lordship world not be able to proceed with bis judicial duties in the Crown Court. His Lordship has been frequently at►acked of late with spasms in the stomach, and dating the night was visited by this dreadful malady, which, for a considerable time, was expected to produce the mo't fatal consequences. Doctor Bedeley. a physician of this town, e•as imm•- dPately called in. The last account of the Learned Judge's situation was by no means factorable, and se rious doubts are entertained of his resover7. For the greater part of the day the business of the Crown Court was suspended. • In the afternoon, Mr. Sergeant TARDY took the bench in that Court, which he would have done at the sitting of the Court; but that he was retained in some of the causes which remained fur trial. About two o'clock the• Learned Sergeant commenced his judicial duties. The business on this side is expected to finish to-day. CITY BUSINESS. • • A Court of Common Council was bold yesterday, for the despatch of public hosing's. The LORD MAYOR laid before the Court the Resolutions of the General Public Meeting lately held at the Mansion House upon the subject of Tithes in London, and the opera tion of the Act of the filth of Henry VIII. which were read, and ordered to be printed, and a copy sent to each Member, together with a pamphlet recently published on the subject of Tithe!. The commissioners of sewers presented a Representa tion of the necessity of an application to Parliament for an Act for the more equal accessing end levying the con solidated Rate on the Inhabitants of the different Wards ; which, after a protracted discussion, was agreed to, and a Petition to the House of Commons adopted accordingly. A petition from Mr. Mesnard, one of the parties who sentin designs for a proposed new London Bridge, convey ing his suspicion that the seal on the letter which accompa nied his proposed plan for a new bridge, presented to the Bridge-house Committee, had been violated, whereby the plan was known to be his, and consequently rejected ; and preying to be heard at the bar of the Court, to state his grounds for such suspicion. The petitioner being called in, stated that his ground for entertaining‘the suspicion mentioned in his petition was, that the seals of the letter and the box when returned to him, were not of the time wax. He did not himself seal them. knowing from the opposition Odell he had received all through the businoss—(Disspprobstion.)—He would con fine himself to stating, that a friend had sealed both the let ter sad the box within two or three minutes of etch other, and he told him when he saw them afterwards that the seals were not the same. • Mr. Dixon said, that after such an impression as must be crested by what had now passed upon this subject bad gone abroad, it was right that it should be removed; for which purpose be moved that the petition be referred to the commit tee of city lands. The motion was then put, and carried unanimously: A petition Was presented from Mr. Thompson relative to * proposed mode of delivering the colliers in the river, instead of the laborious coarse It present in use. *Melt was referred to the Coal and Corn Committee to examine and report. A petition from sundry Coal Merchants and others, be• log the Committee of the inhabitants of London and parts adjacent, relative to the present Duties on Coals, and pray ing the aid and contribution of the Court towards the mea soresthey are pursuing for the reduction, of the same was referred to the Coal and Corn Committee. Mr. D. Richardson was elected to the vacant Mace of Clerk Sitter, and Clerk of the Papers of the 011tspur street Compter, to the room of Mr. John Hicks, resigned. The LORD MAYOR declared a vacancy in the situation of the Marshetmen for the Borough of Southwark, by the death of the late John Wise, and it was referred to the Finance Committee to consider of continuing that ap pointment. A petition from the inhabitants of Donate, Queentabe, end Vintry Wards, for widentng and improving Upper Themes-street, was referred to the City Lands to examine and report. FIRE AT CANTO/. Intelligence was received yesterday, by the Berwickshire East Indismen. which left Canton on the 13th of November, of a most destructive fire in that city. It broke out OR the night of the Ist, et the city wall, near the back of the Euro pean factories. and did not cease in its destroctire career till it had levelled them with the ground, together with a space of nearly two miles square of the dwellings anti manufacto- ries of the Chinese. The number of houses destroyed is estimated at 13,700. according to the English aecoant, but the Chinese make it amount to 16,0110. Five hundred Chi nese are said to have lost their lives during the conflagration. A strong gale of wind which blew at the time assisted the Airy of the element, and as the natives would not permit their houses to be polled down, all the efforts of the Eu ropeans to stop its progress were unavailing. The fire eon firmed to barn till live o'clock on the morning of the 3d.— The seamen belonging to the Company's ships exerted them selves to save the factories, but could not prevent the des truction of the whole of the warehouses. It was equally ttnr possible to save the greater part of the goods within them, and the loss to the Company has comeguently been extreme ly great. The statements vary as to its extent, some des cribing it as 600,0001. and others as high as 1,000,0601. stet um,. W oo ll ens , raw s lik. amiimese. and 90.00 chests of green set *retie, principal articles said to lytea been destroy ed. The Company's treasure was saved, and had been sent on board their own ships. The actual loss of British private property is sell to have been extremely small, exc►pt what seay be m e rc hants. sustained by the failure of the Hong or curity to snake good their engagements. — These, as might be expected, ware among the principal -Al (ewe ; end three of them. whose names are 3/tongui, t. bin qua, and Peuntheque, are said to have susta►red losses to the amount of 300,0001. Kerlin,. By this fire, 40.00 U Of the Chinese are said to hate been deprived of their habitations, which is probably below the truth. in so dense a population as that of Canton. It wes estimated thtt the cost of rector ing the buildings destroyed would exceed 13.000,000 of del ' lets ; and that some years must elapse before Canton can recover its former situation. TAR LaSR Loan MILBURTOM.—From a Friend to whom he was well known.—"Owinc to a natural cau tiousness of disposition, Lord. Ashburton app_ared to strangers to have rstheran awkward manner. But un der an unassuming and quiet deportment, lav concealed from ordinary observation, a powerful intellect, a re tentive memory, a lofty sense of justice, strong feelincs of propri•ty nf conduct, and a tender and benevolent heart. :n the society of his particular friends, his Lordship exhibited • vast fund of information; and he possessed so preat a store of knowledge of subjects 1.4 generally studied, as to render him a useful and most en tertaisiti companion. His strong attachment to Scut lind was' excited by cirentnstances of a peculiar Ware in early life—such Indeed that, had he gone to any other country at the time he first left England, Scotland might not mare had the honour of sttaching his reord, B y all whe ltsci the hvpinest of knowing him, his loss is teverea felt. His Lordship was the son of the celebra-, ted tavyst..lllr. Bunning; and *ith him tbetitle of Ash burtoo extinct."--Vneernces Journal.) ry r ~ f MAI OAR. DI:C. 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In the Loans there was, as usual, nothing worth par ticular notice. and in the COMMONS all was irlitig enough except one matter; namely; a proposition matte by Lord Cranbourne, to whith there was no opposities, to appoint a Committee " to tahe into consideration the laws relative to Ike game, and to report thereon to flnuse." This motion was seconded by Sir John - bright ; afterwards supported by Mr. Curwen; and half supported by Mr. peel, and some others. It was finally agreed to, arid a committee immediately appointed ; the names of which comtnittee we should lik& to have. Lord Cranbourne stated the enormous 'increase of commit ments for poaching. He showed that the more severe the law the greater the number of commitment.: it ap pears that nearly seventeen hundred men were cauacitted last year; and between three and four hundred in tre last month of that year! Such things as these never . were done to procure pleasures to any other aristocra. y upon the face of the earth.' In the Register of 6th April 1822, which is No. 1. of volume 42, I addressed a letter to the Landlords. 1 called it a " Farewell Letter" to them. In that letter I treated of the : subject now be fore Patliament, and.particolarly of the two men, 'ln - nee and Smith, who were banged at WinchrstOr in the Spring of last year, the one for assisting in killing .Robert Baker, game-keeper to Thomas Ashton Simla . , and the other for having wilfully and maliciously shot at Robert Snelgrove, assistant game-keeper to Lard Palmerstoo. From the Hampshire newspaper 1 to,k a a paragraph in *lnch were these words: " The Judge (BURROUGH) observed, it became necessary to these cues that the extreme sentence of the law should be in flicted, to deter others, as resistance to game-keepers was ROW arrived at an alarming height, and many lives had been lost."—At the same . assizes, sixteen persons were sentenced to suffer death; but, the only two persons thst were actually put to death; were those who bad been en deavouring to get at the bares, pheasants, or partridges. of Thomas Ashton Smith, and of Lord Palmerston, amt who, in the prosecution of those. endeavours had fought with sod killed the game-keeper of Smith, and bad shot at the assistant game-keeper of Palmerston. These were the two men who alone sere put to death out cf the sixteen, who were, at this assizes. sentenced to stiffer death. It is material to observe here, that Turner is ac cused of assisting to kill Baker. It is also to be observed that there was a battle; and that the battle was began by Baker. In short, it was in resisting Baker that Ter net gave the fatal blow, if he did give it, and we all very well know that that isnot murder, and that this (secre tion never could hate taken place, unless an Act of Parka meet brought in by the late Ellenborough, and going by his name had been passed. Tue present terrible cone of game-lewd received a monstrous addition in point of severity a few years ago. An Act was then passed to make it transportation to be in pursuit of game after awn set, and armed with Inch or such invest news. It is very certain, that, rather tt an be transported, men will not he taken, if they can avoid it. Hence, the resistance of game-keepers, as Berrough calls it. Ilcnce the wounds given to game-keepers ; the shooting of them, an t, in some cases, the killing of them in fieht. Then scones in nicely to fit the case, the Act of the late Ellenborough : and hence comes the hawing of men; the ii;nominious destritction of human life t . the cutting off of two young rain like 'LIMP(' and Smith, one twenty-seven and the °thee twenty-eigit years of age ; the enving off of these two young men, and many others, either by death or transportation, or long imprisonment ; the leaving of widows aod,orphans and parents to bewail their loss ; the filling of the ells ges and hamlets with nsoorning, and the implanting of feelings In the hearts of the inhabitants, which feeling it is wholly unnecessary to describe in any other way then to say that it is just in itself, and that finally it must produce the effects *Melt all such feelings do prolneer, first or last. Blackstone says, speaking of those animal. • which are called game: " AR these Oleg', so long as " they remain in perrsess l .on, every min has a right to " enjoy eithout ifistnrbance; bat if once they escape ts fium his custody, or he voluntarily abandons the on " of then, they return to the. COMMOU stook, and any " man tLe has an equal right to seize and enjoy them at " terrsids." The same kswyee says. " With regard to. " wild animals, all mankin I had, by the original grant " of the Creator, a right to pursue, take, and enjoy them." It is oarless . to carry observations , of this sort any fur ther ; but I may observe, that Blaefritnne speaks of the game laws which existed in his del as founded on v. - ressoitable notions of permanent property La ,wad ant owls, " protective of tyranny to the coin:nos people." — The game gent'emen. have, wordier to t.ard orae. bourne"s accennt; had 15,47 mit pat into prison daring one year ! 41t twiny of . the .Agrieoltural Distress Meet ings, the 'Landlords have •rbasplainest that all the es. poses of county-rates fell upon them. They forgot to rite how large a portion of these rates nose out of pro strutinps relative to • the game. They et ished to make the Furt4litopers and the trada-people pay stu County Rates ; —but would they make them pay for pr,secnting nearly 1,700 men In one year, npon caarets connected nit hahe presertinC to ttem of the exclesite en jnvment of wild animals.` In short, thisthing appears to have been posited as far as it will - admit of. It was very wei olaservol in the debate, that it intolved a en! ''~ nr " rat bt fore said, 4 t rot • wil' • par • Cal " CO, ▪ pal " till • *cn of pr, all Pr' ♦I , 4 4. • 1^