The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-05-04 00:00:00

?HS ROYAL 4CADRIIY. their Royal ifiglisesses the Dubs and Oloucester, the Princess Sophia. sod the this of tilourester, attended by Lady Lia r, Lady Mary Taylor, Lady Alicia tiordon, , the Ike. Major Canon, and Lient.-Culo visited the Exhibition of the Royal Acad.- ' to its opening to the Royal Visitors had withdrawn, the Nobility were admitted to a private view of the Works rte generally remarked that the presets( Ex tallied a greater diversity of subjects than Hog goes, the number of portraits is less, ary and historical works proportionably e followios are the principal pictures:— is Lawrence, the President. exhibits this imams: • splendid Portrait of his Majesty. a bees commissioned to riot for the Royal Won; a Portrait of hie Royal Highness York ; a Portrait of his there the Dike of of the Cameos of lilessingtou ; a Poe. 1-Marshal the Duke of Wellington; Portrait Abet Worowsew t Portrait of Mrs. Link. the Red Riding Hand. Disobey has ire pictures in the present Ex it/aim of her Royal alevines the Duchess the Princess Alexandrine Victoria; No des. Cochrane I Portrait of Sir Jobs Hors. it of the Row. Dr. Piet; and a fancy plc. 'rises Poems—" Cupid having lost his sr with Ganymode. reproved by Vests." id, K. A. exhibits two pictures dile year t imorical picture, the subject—" Jeneph to to his father;" and a sleeping Bacchante. , R.A..exhibits the picture which hosier no d Engrossed his *Motion. and which be boo is Urea the Duke of Weilloirtow.-411s1 waiving _the Looks Gazette Extrasodistoey , demon. 1818. alutoottelog the litab of I this Otter* the painter has stroked pop oral #4lllkkahlo diameters, sasselj, boar ,Ibbo served with tietteral Ong= me ti e tcooer, a servitor of tbeeOwits_ptions of Quebec with Gonad Wale 1, ono the hand of the ha Illoglaroitisf who woo io France dodo/ the Revoh mot at the loath of Louis XVI., was Min nle Wood Morose is his eampairos be Mgthe Boosiatiottavy Var. MAW the Mlw who as with the oil blargeme of Isar is as di proakswor who served with eta at the memoeshie sloe of Gibraltar. At Caspmal of the Onford Blues. who was at Violins, is • block doff. knows to the of ma by the ease of Oki Doke, who followed at ail ever the Poisotia. tidy. R.A.. Ins the C•avaleseest. a, LA., elltillies the Caledenia• Hunt. rate. It. A.. inhibits two very Ise Historical respire dimensieas. : the Burial of the Princes Bridget Plaatageset, fourth Kieg Edward IT.. cosigned to the care of 4 the Monastery of Dartford. ps. LA., has eight pictures is this exhibi- Portrait of timseral Sir Charles Asgill. ate( Lady Ana* Bs-kett—Portraits of Has- Beery sad Jae tilembrook—Portrait of otter irodsham--Pottrait of Wm. Stnrch. nit of Charles Avow, Esq.—Portrait of Sir lohhouse, Bart —sad a fancy picture called. from the Hopgarden. omen, has ahe picture frees Shaiv opest, Miranda's Brat sight of Ferdinand. set, ILA., exhibits aa entraordinary picture. —Smeggler's alarmed by as naispected I homy weather whit. toadies thelrearr. d. R.A. ' has the Boa Serpent seising • [nit of Monis, the favourite charger of his , tieorge the Third. and several tine per m. ill presents two pictures to public inspection, M hycbe, and at Brash Mill, at Little Hemp- R.A.. has a very Iseautitel little picture of ry at Southend is Essex. hu some ray be landscapes, eta! views. er, R. A. has seversl portraits of animals, historical pietures.—Tba Battle of Strinzo-' !raw, in Iloagary, where Lord Amadei of moor other distinguished feats of valour, Ward of Whammed; and Report's Sum mon Moor. Igle displays the versatility of his talents in rtraits and landscapes. and historical pictures which ornament the bition us the following:— .Itering his Darling from the approaching it y.—The Murdered Traveller , Slous.— R. Farrier.—Flight into Egypt, H. Irvine. ig Lion, E. Landseter.—Leaving Home, R. —Tbe return of the Prodigal Sow, F. O. -Paintiag a Portrait, W. Jones.—Lost Mo ipingille.—lllacheth entering_ On Witches' 'any, sea.—Rat Catchers . Lindner.— reetion, W. Etty.—The Veteran's Glory. W. Solitary, J. 0. Tudor.—Tbe Rivals, C. R. Atalanta and Meleager, in a Landscape, 0. -Hi rufous retarniog front making an offering it the Temple of Vishnu, East Indies, T. Da .—Scene (tom Moliere's Coined', Les Pre- Icules blades's, Cohort, Mascarille, A. E. I.—A Pastoral, H. P. Bone.—The Death of I. Vradelle...—Tho Travelling Poulterer, W. ig loar. Act 11. Scam 4th. H. P. Briggs.— r shall I not? or. the tempting Presto. T. —llaserps, T. Forster.—The Flemish Pbr rondin.—Paris is the Chamber of Helen. T. right—Cupid, I:. W. Picheregill.—The ar, W. F. Wetheringten.—Scene in the Beg with Portraits of Mrs. Davenport, Min M. Ile. Blanchard, by D. ('!lot, A.—The Death H. P. Boise.—The Death of Adonis, R. T. rioltalis, T. C. Thompson.—A Recruiting Attack on a French Con. riehton.—The Broken Saddle, W. Allen.— Jones.—lris baring cut off the tile', Mir. Mrs. Ansley.—The Fugitives, J. — . lle Funeral Procession of W. Caoynge to .laurch, Bristol, in the reign of Edward IV. liagille--The Prodigal S• 11,1 Graham. also a splendid display of Scalpture, rind. r. Westincott, R.A, Mr. Chantey, R.A. Mr. KA., Mr. Bailey, R.A. &c. pe has three admirable Flower Pieces. from Ass of these is a large composition of dowers drawn at the British Museum, which is trans hoe ; and the whole are of so truly steeliest a sas filly to maintain and establish that high al reputation which this Lady has already so sired. Ixe.'a Vim* To Scirrtary to.—kl r. Mash of the suberlain's Office. baa had orders to go to Haase, to prepare it for a visit from the am year. Special directions were given liesty not to meddle with the room which Pied hr the Earl of Darnley. the husband et PPI (been Mary ; and we understood that a rest ht. berm exp d concerning a room in 'mss I. (from whom it is well known the ck family descended) was born. • INPIIISI4k HOUSE OF LOR" DII. FRIDAY, Mee S. Yr. Bosom( sod ether, brosght up from the Lemons the Excise licences' Bill, which was read a time. AGRICCLITRIL The Earl of AIBEMARLE pressisted a petition from the Occupiers o(21.300 acres of land in the Hundred of North tireenlow. in the county of Norfolk, complainiog of Agricultural distress. Lord SUFFIELD bore testimony to the reality and Ligisent of that distrme.—The petition was read snit laid ,en the table. . The Reel of ALBEMARLE then presented a similar Petition from the Oecopim of 35A10 acres of land in the Hundred of King Cross. to the County of Norfolk. --Read and laid on the table. Lord SU FFI It LD presented a petition to the same effect from the Hundred of North Uppiogham. in the county of Norfolk. His Lordship stated, that the petition was signed by all the land-owners of the Hoodred. but that he bad known nothing of the meeting. until he had bees requested to preside, aod had had no share is the preps* shims sulonitted for consideration. The Earl of DARNLEY made a few observations in support of the petition, and contended that as taxation an one of the chief ceases of diem., its redacting would be themes 'Senegal used. of relief.—The petition was then read and laid on the table. Lord VIAITON. and others brooklet several private Bills from the Commons which were read a first time. SCIOTO, 1.1111111. The Earl of ROSEBERRY rm. pursuant to his motion. Their Lordships would recollect, that is the "'arse of lest Session. be had introduced a Bill, the ef fect .f which was to regulate the right of voting at the election of the sixteen Pesos for &seised. This Bill bad gone through two stages. not only without being objected ice:cope by ewe Noble Peer, but with the ge neral approbation of the hens". Subsequently. however. several Noble Peers wished that the measure should be suspended, in order that the loose of the Scottish mobi lity. epos its merits. should be more fully ascertained. At his own seggestiese, a comeninicatloa had been made, to every indiv idual Peer, respecting his opinion on the subject, and the result bad net only confirmed his con viction of the propriety of the measure, bet had. deter mined him to bring it once more before their Lordships. Only two Peers had dissented. The one because, though be thonght well of the measure, he did Dot conceive that the Seoaish nobility were oleaginous In wanting it ; and the other because he beiieved it would! be better to proceed by resolutions, than at once by a Bill. This was the course which be new intended to adopt. lie had already, on introducing the original Bill, pointed out to ' Nair Lordships the defects of the existing system of glee dos. They were aware that there was no provision to the votes which were offered, end that many iedi gFk who bad no legal right. were thus ambled I. ' Now, this would be a hardskip to any body of niiiaent more particularly so to the Peers of &Wised, "la b having lost their seats in the Legislature. only ri* tidied the right of ratios for the election of Represen tatives, and were not even allowed to sit in the Heine of Gammons. He should think it unnecessary to occupy the time of the House with any argument to justify some alteration is the system. if he did not expect that the length of time which it bad existed would be urged io Its support. He should therefore produce one example in which the present mode of election had been produc tive of great injustice. He alluded to the neutral Elec tion of 1;90. Owing to the admission of indiscriminate votes, only thirteen Representative Peers fur Screamed had for three whole years eat is sisialleitioli Vadhllefet. The three others bad bees deprived of their seats all that time, because six Peers had been elated by equal num bers, and an inquiry became necessary before it could be decided who were the three who bad been duly returned. This investigation took op three years, though he would admit that another question had been mixed up with it, whether Scottish Peers sitting in Parliament under an English title retained the right of voting at the election of Representative Peers. This tkoestioa. however, might have been decided. and wee ultimately settled by that house is the affirmative in the space of one day. Yet owing to the original vice in the system of election, three Peers were deprived of their seats for three years out of six which they were to have sat in Parliament,— After having taken the subject into serious considera tion, and in deference to the opinion of others, be should submit two Resolutions to their Lordships. The Ent should declare that in case of the decease of a Scottish Representative Peer, IN person. except the sou, or grand son, or the lineal descendant or brother of a Peer, should vote for the election of a Representative until his right el voting should have been admitted by the House of Lords. The second should merely provide that the first shouldn't infringe the right of any person to challenge that of others to vote. He should now move that the House re solve itself into a Committee of Privileges on these Re solutions on Thursday next, with the view, shonld they meet with the approbation of the Committee, to bring is a Rill to give them the force *flaw. The motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned till Monday next. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. CURTRIS presented a petition from the occupiers of land in the eastern part of Sussex, complaining of distress, and expressing a regret at the result et the la bours of the Agricultural Committee.—Ordered to be printed. t the complaints be .ball to fist way In which Scotch business, was at house. He believed the Learned Lord opposite, (die Lord Advocate) had get five Scotch Bills standing for the same day. It sins impossible they could all pass through their respective stages in the course of one sitting. lie entreated him to afford the Representatives of Scotland a fair oppottbnity nf dis cussing questions, intimately connected With the inter ests of their constituents. LOltD ADVOCATE repelled the accusation made against him by the Noble Lord opposite, in his absence otitis general non-attcndance the other night. He begged to ioform the Noble Lord that there was bet one day during the whole of the present Session that he had not been in the house, and if the Noble Lord hod looked mad the house, instead of confining his view to the Treasury Bench, he would have seen bins. He bad assrays horn ready to answer questions on the presenting Fief the 11111 a and other stages of them, but be denied the right of the Noble Lord or any other person to charge hint with neglectof duty, because he did not sit there three boors a day in the early part of the evening to an swer questions, because the Noble Lord could not bare the ordinary courtesy to inform him when lie was going to present a petition.--(Hear.)—With regard to the dif- Welts 0111•-the Noble Lord would have an opportunity 'of making his objections, and he should be prepared to answer hint when they Case fairly before the house. After a few words In explanation front Lord A. Fla- Nihon. the Lord Advocate, and Mr. J. P. Grant, the pe dt read and ordered to be printed. .111ANivroix presented another petition of as BO nature from the nine incorporated trades of Dundee. • Gerd BINNING defended the Lord President Hope from a charge which had been preferred against him, and maintained that he bad only done that which it was Isle bounden duty to do. Mr. HUMS said if lie possessed the legal knowledge of his Honourable and Learned Friend for Winchel sea, he would bring the whole of the Scotch Judges to the bar of that house, and prove that no more than three Mae of the 21 had been chosen from men of that expo dears which fitted them for the situations to which they were appointed. The Lord Ativotcate and Sir G. Clarke vindicated the Bench of Scotland, sod after a few words from Mr. J.P. Grant, Mr. 31aberly. Mr. 1). Drummond, and Mr. Bett ed, the petition wee ordered to be printed. AGRICULTUR 41, Mr. BROUGHAM thought it would be fcr the eon/m -oieties of the lionse that they should then determine witetheror not the agricultural questios could be discuss ed that night. The Noble 31arquess was aware that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had announced an inten tion of heisting op the Report of the Committee on the new mode of paying the 5,0110,000/. chargeable for Na val and Military Pensions. They were not yet near that, es a umber of petitions were yet to be presented. and when it came on it would probably occupy the house some time. As they might not be able to get to it till a late period of the night, he would suggest to the Noble Marquess the expediency of putting it off till Monday. The Marquess of LONDONDERRY was reluctant to postpone the Agricultural Question, but be would ra ther that it go of rill Monday, than have it brought on eta lateperiod erne night. If be prided to the ing-1 gestioo of the Learned tientlenme, he it would be I understood that no other question ahett interfere with it on Mooday. Sr. BROUGHAM thought no Gentlemen who wished well to the Agricultural intemet would wish the anbjeet to be postponed beyond Monday. He took Ibis for Irrailie4, mid Me thereinto took it for gwented that that iju-stion would be regarded as peremptorily fixed for the brst thing on Monday. Tkir Marquess of LONDONDERRY begged farther to remark, that on each series of resolutions, the whole queatioa could be discussed, but be wished the question. as to the warehonsing of Corn to be first disposed of.— Ile desired :Dees that brought to a point one way or the other, sad therefore he hoped that it would sot he made the vehicles,* a discassion of all the resolution; but that they should, in the first instance, confine themselves to one practical measure, then to be submitted to the consi deration of the house. Mr. (JOKE objected to Fart of the plan now suggest ed, which related to the grinding of warehoused cora. After a few words from Lord V. Osborne and Mr. Ro binette, the Order of the Day for receiving the Report of the Committee on Agricultural Distress, was postponed till Monday. The Martiness of LONDONDERRY appeared at the bar with his Majesty's most gracious answer to the Ad dress voted on the preceding day, respecting the Post soasters-Oeneral. The answer was as follows: " The King baring been attended with the Address of the House of Commons of yesterday. acquaints the House that be will five directions that the salary of one of the Postmasters-Heneral shall forthwith be discon tinued. " His Majesty only postpones the abolition of the of flee of one of tile Nstmasters-GerseraL until he shall have had the opportunity orconsidering what permanent arrangement may he advisable for the conduct of the business of that department." The Margness of LONDONDERRY presented an sr count of the expense of his Majesty's diplomatic service abroad. with other papers.—Ordered to be printed. STATESMAN • tido mule* le repeat quietly made, ter the e PetnAw traneseted In *at he WINDOW TAX. Mr. R. SIIAW postponed his notice of motion for a re peal of the Window Tax to Thursday the '231 inst. Mr. BLACKBURN presented a Petition from the Di rector of the Chamber of Commerce and 31anafactures at Manchester. complaining of an Act passed last Session, regulating the Monopoly of the E. 1. Company.—Order ed to be printed. Mr. GLADSTONB presented a Petition from the Ship owners of Greenock io Scotism!, complaining of the exorbitant light-bones and other duties to which they are sobject.—Ordered to be printed. Sir F. OSBORN presented • Petition signed by two thousand persons of the Comity of Cambridge, complaio- I iog of Agricultural Distress. r JAM LS bore testimony to the respectability of the Petitioners.—Ordered to be printed. COURT OP CHANCERY. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from a person of the name of Julio, Adolphus Schroeder, complaining of the praciice sanctioned by the Court of Chancery, of refusing a Bill to be filed in that Court, unless signed by Counsel. The Hon. Member for Durham intended to move for Hu reform of certain abases in the Court of Chancery, and he hoped he would include this. After a few words from Mr. BERNAL which were not distinctly audible I■ the gallery. the petition was read, and ordered to be printed. •Lltll DILL. Mr. DAWSON, at the sugg estion of Mr. C. U. Hetcb insoa, pestponed tie motion - for leave to bring is the Alien Rill fro= Mosey the 24th, to Tuesday the 21st, in consequence oft isMien relative to Scotch Represent ation, staadist for the irons day. . _ .C•TCR amens. Laid A. HAMILTON presented a petition from tbe Burgeons of the Corporation of the Royal Burgh of Perth against the Bills in Parliament. for the redress of certain abases in Royal Burghs. The Noble Lord took AORICULTURAL DISTRISS. Mr. WESTERN presented a petition from certain owners sad occupiers of land in the connty of Kent, complaining of Agricaltural Distress.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. COKE presented petitions from two of the Hun dreds in Norfolk on the same subject.—Ordered to be printed. • 810.. HARVEY bad to present one more petition compl►ining of the lamentable distress to which the country wa. reduced, from the parish of Bradwell, In the Monty of Essex. The petitioners described their present sufferings to the great influx of foreizu corn 111 the mine of the last fire years, to the alteration of the currency, and the weight of taxation. Mr. WESTERN supported the prayer ardor petition, which, after a few words from Mr. N. Calved, Mr. Ri cardo, Mr. Phillip+, and Sir W. de Crespigny, was or dered to lie on the table. Mr. J.P. URANT moved for an account of the Sink- lag Pend; and of the qoanfitiof Stock redeemed by its ,operation since 179 ; and also for accounts of the amount of the unredeemed debt of the four per cent. Stock, and the National Debt of Ireland.—Ordered NNW VINANCIAL PLAN. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for receiving the Report of the Committee on the new plan for providing far thecharge occasioned by naval and military pensions. lir. BERNAL wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he found somebody or other willing to pay these annuities on certain terms which might be sesl upon, what security would he obtained. that should continue to he paid during the %thole pe riod *thirty-five years. The onus might prove so great, that the parties might after a time come to the High: Hoc °oedemas and throw up the contract. There was anotbar point to which he wished to direct the at teed., of the house, namely, the contingency of a new war. Should * war break out. is four, fire, or six years from this when all the dicers now on half-pay would then be rolled into active sank% placed on full pay teed paid oat of &Menai fast.. The Hon. Gentleman he was Lammed that had beta explained, sad hit principal point thetefore was to ask what security tumid be obtained from 1140 watt-inters for the perform aloe of their contrast? The CHANCELLOR of the EV:HEVER thought Off 'Weill, the Of-Jere the Day for bringing op the Report of the Committee. it would be wasting this time of the house to 'slaw on the details of the measure , but he was ready to give every information lo Iris power, in the progress of the measure. Th. Hon. Hest- Ileums must he aware that many of the previsions whirh must accompany a bargain of this nature, coold only be gone into when the terms of it came to be discharged. flit the question of the Hon. Gentleman he would an swer in a wanner which lie O,OOEIII would be satisfac tory. The Hon. Gentleman asked what security would be obtained from the contractors for the fulfilment of their engagements. He concluded there would not be the smallest difficulty in the world in obtaining wend ties from parties who were in the first instance to ad- Mice large aims to the public. which were only to be gradually repaid. The business could he managed in the same way Mall ordinary loan transaction. The Order of the Day was then read, and Mr. Haw - ntw breffffht op the Report. General GASCOYNL took occasion to 14 that on a former night be had fallen into a mistake with respect to the plan. He had not bees singular in this, for it did sot appear to him very clear bathe now did net ob ject to the principle of it. • The Resolutions come into the Committee, were then read. On the sixth Resolution, which seen: to authorise the Commissioners of the Treasury to treat or contract erith corporate or other bodies for the sums required,' Mr. HUME sail, as it appeared that the precedlog Resolutions had nothing to do with the subject, he rose in this, considering it to be the only one of conseq u . . The house would recollect that Ministers had proposed to establish a Sinking Fund of five millious, to be sus tained by the imposed on the present generation, In order to diminish the National Debt in thetime to come. The Gentlemen on that ( the Opposition) side of the House, feeling that the country tuust be relieved. had been content that four or five million of taxes should be taken oE They were, in fact, willing to give up that Sinking Fund which the Ministers considered to be so necessary. But this plan bad bettarejecteil by a large majority, and so far the business hadibeeo settled. Bat now what had been done by those who hod told them how discouraging it would be, with such a na tional debt, if measures were not adopted for reduciag its amount ; and who hail insisted ou the necessity of their meeting this eltarge? He for one, and he believed the country. at large, had been munch surprised that these very itadirtJuals bad now brought forward a scheme to invert their own system, and to defeat their own object. Their first proposition was, that the present generation should bear the expense, which was the subject of con sideration, to relieve these who might come after them. The effect of the plan now brought forward, was to les sen the charge on the present age, by extendiog it to posterity. Yet this was the e ff ect of what was now pr.:- posed, so completely at variance were the two pro/Ms/- dons which had been submitted to Parliament. Tim House knew that the finances of the country had been for years carried on by a series of shifting expedients, instead of bringing them before the House in o simple amt intelligible form. IVithout more simplicity in their arrangement, it was impossible for the country to un derstand the situation in which its affairs were placed. Bat instead of adopting a more simple plan, one of in creased complexity for throwing the (-barge of certain pensions over the next forty-live years, which plan would operate directly against the one of which they had pre vious)y been the advocates. in carrying this scheme into effect, more diffi.-alties would be 'found in the way 'than the Chancellor of the Exchequer could easily get over. He was satisfied that but few contractors would be found who would be able to advance large stuns of money for sixteen years in succession, without receiving any thing in return. He was therefore satisfied that such ho and such terms would be demanded on the part of the contractors as could not be granted with out injury to the country. It was then for the Bongo I. consider whether some better plan for relieving the country from taxes to the amount of 2,200,000 f. could not be devised. Why should not a simple plan be pre ferred one of complexity? If a measure like that now proposed were necessary, why not take the sum wanted from the 5,000,0001. which had been set apart to diminish the public debt? Why not at once contract with the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to wake the payments required, and thus enable the Government to remit the proposed amount of taxation. 1,01 the 2.200,090/. be at once taken front the Sinking This would be a comparatively simple measure. There would be no loss sustained in bonuses given to the con ; tractors, and in this way the best possible use would be made of what was called a Sinking Fund. Taking this view of the subject, he was about to offer an amend ment. Lest any loan should suppose that it was his ob ject to oppose the contemplated remission of 2,21.10,0001. In taxes, he begged to say that he and his Hon. Friends near hint were willing to go beyond that, and to consent that very night to the remission of taxes to the amount of 5 millions. Why not relieve the country to the ex tent of the surplus revenue? Let this be dune, and he had no doubt Irons that 5 millions being placed in the pockets of the country, twice the suns might be levied If circumstances should make it necessary. He now moved to omit the words " and treat " after the word contract, and to insert the words "Commissioners for the redemption of the National Debt ;" so that the re solution as amended would read—" That it is the opinion of this Committee that Commissioners of the 'treasury should be authorised to contract with the Com missioners for the reduction of the National Debt for the sums required." Mr. CRI PPS was surprised at the course taken hy the Honourable Member for Aberdeen. As he wished to diminish the burdens of the people, be had not expected him to oppose the present plans. lie was satisfied with it, the Noble Maress hav!ng proposed to tie up the existing Sinking Fund, to increase by compound in terest till it amounted to one per cent. on the whole debt. The present plan was as simple as any thing could be. lie admitted that it in some degree operated against the principle of the Sinking Fund, as at the end of forty-five years we should not be so much out of debt as we 'night have been, hail we gone on with the lives and annuities. He had not the least possible doubt but that many persons would be ready to take the contract without any extraordinary profit. He thought it highly disadvantageous to throw obstacles in the way of a measure calculated to afford so much relief to the country. and lie hoped the House would therefore agree to it without hesitation. Mr. WIIITAIWIF. thought the view which the Hon. Member for Aberdeen had taken, was the correct one. The question was purely one of arithmetic, and he mold not see nhy it was not as well to take the money from the Sinking Fund at once. With this view he should support the Amendment. Mr. J. MARTIN remarked upon the inconsistency of Government purchasing Aurosities under one lir rancernent, ant wishing to sell them by another. 3lr. It I LIMA/ said that the matter of eotttiry was, what was the mug economical mode of reduung a cer tain amount of taxation. It was unite impossible that this contract could be made without advantage to the contractors. They must hare their bonus, and wuatever the amount might be, that must be lost to the country. If they took the amount trout the Sinking Fund, be would say that Ike country would be in a better condition it the end of the forty-fire years, than by the adoption of the proposed measure. IVhen t try had a plain easy .. f~ t' r - - -.I 1