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4 :entlentan (Mr. Littleton), and it no easy to Pro claim throe as the resolutions of the comity at Large. lie said that the poor of Stoff.oddote , so fir from being oppressed by the present system of duty, bad co.Ls really cheaper. As to the t fort of the I loopurable Gentleman, hr did by on in-sits blame lota ; it wens, he rniKlit conceive, 111. I I Illy, but he (Mr. Laiubtor.) felt it equally his dti , ) to oppose hi m . • Alr. I.ITTLFTON said, the 1100. Gentleman has imputed motives to toe a hack-- Mr. LAIIIBTON—" 1 beg to say that I have im puted no improper tunties to the I 100. —quite the contrary, for I have said dirt be cotoo diced it his duty to art os he dol." Pin.l.ll's 6131 any 1)P11101, in the least 'acquainted with prdrical • commits . , intro know that it is nowise to hie a tax on the inAtistry of the pee ple. He said that massefarteries were e st..l.ll.litil in coal countries, because of_the f.c , hiy of pro curing that twers•ary article; and if' any duly were 110 w in lltllonerd on coals, it would have the err.. oftect of destroying those mann Nebo Ws. Nothioc. lw said, was more fallacious than to talk of the ennaliz Ilion of coal duty. Ost some acirles maniofailorrd, the ditty on cualkittutilit amount to li.lf ; on slime to 5 per cent. It would not 1w an egos's! slims —it would be the greatest possible ins/rainy of duty. Alderman ‘Vuon said, that the Citiz-ns of Lan do., did not set k to hare the tax imputed on others tether only wish. d to get aid of a very heavy tax on themselves, lie said that he understood, from Ow hest information, that the etpializ dial, of coals woolsl not summit to more than • duty of 4 ". 0 " the ton; all they wished for was • Committer, Ind this was teri-teil by Gentlemen on the oplimile interest, and a elements' was attempted to be lamed egainst the appointment of a Committee, merely I)..catiiie they knew that it could he proved that the ohject of the Citizens of Loudon was reasonable sod just. Petition ordered to lie on the table. Mr. LITTLEToN persented w I'vtition from the enmity of Si istrorrtl against the Insolvent Debtors' A , S. tin' or I.I3IEIIICK ELECTION. Mr Ast•c•ouse pressentell a Petition from 'ft t tiering li►re, E -tl. the lore toriitiorling Member, against the electors's of this City. Ile 0.:111, dual loootreorer Orem Mr. Itore's 0111 r might lw, arol iudrsd It was • easr of preirlior h•rd.hip, p.t lu 41,.1 Ivo mean to rigid the authority of the Sell el Colson' ter, "tor to eiepate it drvisioso ; hot he am% sox no% to e.,11 the attention of the Ilotm iss the &cis. ~,,, B.r that Coonmitterb in order that ►rose mesons's sorght he adopted to prevent the re c.orrysice nl• is c.tie to he one of extreme hardship, as it is sir hoot • precedetil. S r ,Jinx NESTIMMT out Ole nest this W:I•4 a Me of ;17 eat rwieri.y. and, in his the !loose was called on In ,flake some regisl4 • that might settle a point so likely to lead to public inconvenience. The ir MHO,. of the Act of 1796, 1w said, extended the City of Limerick. The county books were o:rlittrril by the Sheriff to the Clerk of the Pence, 1') I. main with him as the cantos of the public v. cords of the county. The poll-books of the last ripening had been delivered by the Returning- Officer to the Clrik of tlw Peace, and that r was I gilt Over (rein Ireland, and examined before the Conimittre. It had been said, that the Sherifir had not 'tern brought before 11w Committee; hot it die Sheriff-, ir t ,e.iiist whom .I r. Rice complained, h 341 hero guilty of tiny neglect, it 'N.:• certainly not just to virat ham with their iniscombiet. The ob jection tlw C ntittre mode was, that as the poll clerk vets riot produced, there was no evidence Out lily IHNA• Were in Nct the genuine poll-books; hut this oa,•the first invtatice vrliere such au objec tion pretaileal ; and if it were to become an este. 1.11.1wil rule, it would expose the Iri.h Petitioning Alrisibera to vast iticouve:iirsice anil enormous ex peter, for retry single poll eel k on the election should iii such case be produced before the Com mittee. Ile hoped that the House would establish a uniform rule on this point. so that there may not be as matey conflicting opinions as there are Cum. toil Irev. A 11enili. r, whose name we could lint learn, laid drat the case of the Petitioner was note of ca tionic haritslitp. Ile countried entirely with the prayer of the Petition, and he email suet reflect without pain on the necessity the Committee must have lilt iu mating the decision which subjected Mr. Rice to so much hardship. Colonel !lenity said, he hoped some Legislative enactment would be made upon the subject. A Nietolief of the Committer said, that as sit ting no the Committee whose decision had been so much condenuird, he would say, that no Com l.:nitre ever api•ointed had a greater disposition to da justice ; at the Name time he was free to admit tier excessive hardship of the Petitioner's caw; but to the decision they made, they felt thesuorbres litmus' by the law of evidence. There was uo evi. deuce before them that the poll-books were genuine, and though the Petitioner requested that the Com mittee world apply to adjourn for ten days, to enable lino to practise witnesses from Ireland; yet the Committee felt, the' in yielding to this if quest they would have dune injustice to the sit ting Nlenohers, who had wituesses iu Loudon at F rest expense. Mr. AocacnostoT said, that hr had been ac cused of Illiberal expresh s w bringing forward this subj. rt ; but there was no occasion of his life less I.kely to disturb Into than this, because he hoped that bringing forward this subject would the House to adopt some iorariable rule that mould g..veno every future case. Mr. W. ‘1 s N suggested the propriety of with. olrawmg Ihe P. tition. It appeared to him that the emnethiiig like censure ou the Committee, a n d he did nut wish to see a precedent this maitre recorded int the Journals of the !louse. Ile slid not inopot., any ldante to the Prti limit r—lie wits guilty of oti act of negligence—m rut having htnupht before them the Poll Clerk, Ins case wuuiit hare been injuted ; for what was liiore mound 111 suppose, than that the evidence witch bail he... received 111 other cases would have been so divot,' in this ? The Committee, however. had thought o , hs ramie, and though he lamented their becein,c it bore severely on the Petitioner, I h e cut. II our prove of the present proceeding. The Petition was then ordered to be printed. It states— et un the 6.st (lay of the present Session of Psili• merit, a P. tilinn was received by the !loose, panto. g a dr m eeeee ration of she sight of election, and e planturg of an undue retort. for the Conaly of the City ul Linirtirk. Tirol the Peritioster entered into the r eco g .mig o wes re el •rl law, nutter the several OM lilts passed in the 214th nod 53.1 seam of his present Mei sty'. reign. That the Petitioner served a poli t e o n th e t ilti o r Pleas• bre, apprizing him that it was tatetimled to apply f. r a t eeee to take vvldencr in Leland That a S:•l. et Committee liaeirre been appointed to try the merits of Pleb Penton', the statements and lists were ex changed on Friday, the 27th of February. That in order to prus•e the Petitioner's right as 3 randi darr• to proceed, t he poll. books wire prolloced in the hood. of the tours. officer—the. Town Clerk anti Clerk uf Peace for the City of limeritk. That the Kelorning Officers were proved I. have rreeirial the poll-hooks at the immediate close of the last elm (lion, an•l to have 5.1410 after delivered them to the Town Clerk and sit of the l'eace, as Ilne proper racelos. 'that she poll-hoka were tendered to the Select Commit. Ire by the Town Clerk and Clink of time Peace, in the same state as when be had received them, and with the still of the lietstruing Offirerm unbroken. That stn evidence, or even Suagestion was offered, to strew that the 1011-books had ever been out of legal custody. That in every Irish case since the U 1311113 torch evidence had been uniformly received anti acted upon, as statical to lour Iwnticate the ball-books. Tloni it swot etheless appeared meet io amh Select Com mittee to reject this evidence as insufficient, and to refuse the Petitioner any opportunity of producing the witnesses, whine ■tteod:owe was rearm - lend n ry by the strict cults now fur the first time at, enforced. Thot however deeply the Petitioner lamrnterl a determi nation whim It In IP affected his own hopes and sitters acm, and has prevented a large and respectable busty of Electors I. bliss( their claims before the douse of Common., nod from oblatwing a redress for the injustice of a hich they complain, still the Petitioner bowed with 'Omission to the authority of the Beier% Committee. That the Petittoirer email not but feel more strongly the hordthips of I.i* situation, when he considered that he, obey ing every enactment of the Legislature, eel ry stauthog or. der of the hippie, and pursuing the uniform course uf usage and precedent, was yet excluded from the remedy be had sought to obtain; whilst other Petitioners, who have 'realm cred the positive enactments uf statutes, and aho are therefore limed by tie ordinary construction of law, are yet, by the etpritable jorisdiction uf Parliament, admitted as Petitioners at the Bar That the Petitioner beg, here to represent moat strongly the door.' ions couste rn ueoces to which the d.ctsimos o f the Siefert Committee mnst inevitably teat, by subj• cling Irish P.lttioners to pecnliar diflteattles add enormoua (sperms; by investing r eturning-officers with a most arbitrary power; by counteracting the intentions of the Legislature, in pro viding for the examination of evidence in irelaati ; and by pliscoug the claims of Petitioners and the rights of Electors at the mercy of a single Deptity•Sheriff, ur Tsar Petitioner begs humbly to suggest, that, if all Re turning lacers were bMllid to insert the 'rinses of all Cau• &olefin, and the fact of a pull, in the inslessi sires of et torn ; and that inch relent, duly sinlwatiratol, weer made evi dence of all the allegations it corstaineil, the cads whirl' hove pressed on your Petitioner with such III'EUILIF sere ray would ri.r the futitre be obviated. lie therefore prayed, that the House will take the pre mises into consideration, and will make thereon ills It usdrr as Is. their wisdom should seem meet. %Ir. It, SUM ta ER COMplaitieti of the time taken up iu private bliainetia, nod if the want o f proper arrangemen►, by which means great public interests had bell. stnipriidtcl. The SilEssEit agreed in the justice of the Ater. ration made by the lion. Member—it was ter. tainly true. that in the paper of private business, Pet tiona were printed *hid) rehired illtogetlwr to public business, and that in consequence of this it was impossible to know when the public business might come on. He could only say, that if the House considered it necessary to meet at an rather hour he would cheerfully agree to any arrangement of that kind. The Report of the Committee on the Petition for Lighting the City of \l'estminster with was brought up, and leave given to bring iu a Bill accordingly. SCOTTISH BU RG HS. .Mr. BENNETr presented e Petition from the In habitants of the Royal Burgh of Whithorn, pray ing for • reforinatiort in the government .r the Royal Burghs of Scotland.—Read cud laid on the li table. Mr. CLIFFORD presented • Petition from Ban don Bridge, against ally further exten►ion of privi leges to the Itoinan Catholics. Sir H. Pamir:Lt. understood that the two former Petitions from the same place were only copies of that stow presented, which was the only of ignial, the only one that had ever been at Bandon. fle would be glad to have some explanation on the sult4ect from the lion. Gentleman. Mr. Curium) made a very brief reply, not au dible in the gallery. The Petition was read and I MI Oil the table. MOCK AucrioNs. Mr. Alderman WAITIIM A N presented a Petition from the town of Ipswich against mock unctions. Ile said, that • Bill on this subject had hero pre pared, which carefully avoided every far objec tion. There was, he understood, one objection to the Bill ; it was that it would deprive the Soli citor of the Excise of certain free ;hut he submitted that this ground way not a wise *me upon which to resist a measure capable at once of correcting many abuses, and of improving the reveitue. . r from eximiniug and arratitiiig gn extensive .0 or letter , he had received on the qu estion—lae%ide., e%- s ,rrt•nrots had been for snot,. tune carrying oil, 00 a Ihrge scale, till the result of which was kimwii he wn. nowilhog to commit himself, by adopting any ti ate plan. Ile hoped, lioweier, lie should he enabled ht come to a decision in it e COllll , O of next week, and to state his sentiment• to the [louse. Mr. WAI.I.Act: hoped a fill would be brought forward, embodying the opinion, of the Coconut tee, so far a• would be practicable, ivitliout the dillies which he should oppose. Mr. CALCRAFT feared that whatever measure• lie might propose to the Committee would not meet the approbation of the lion. Gentleman, as lie had dissented from every thing suggested ly him before. Ile knew that with respect to the abolition of the duties, they were iii the same state as in last year ; and that the revenue was not in such a condition that they could be given lip witl out an equiv dent. Next week, however, lie should submit a motion to the House on the subject. VOTERS' OATHS. Mr. W. WILLIAMS gave notice of a motion fur the 19th of March, for the imposition of a certain oath tin the voters in Boroughs at Election•. It staP Ihru agreed, that the House should at its riping adjourn till Monday next. ROYAL. HOUSEHOLD. The CHAtick:i.i.uit of the ExcifEerns moved, that in consequence of ►he absence of the Noble ViPcotint (Lord Castlereagh), caused by a severe foully offliction, the Committee on the Royal Household Bill, which riool on the orders fur the (lay, should be postpotied till Monday se'tinight.— A greed to. EQUERRI ES AT WiNDsoit Sir A I.EX AIS DLit Hope !not pont (I. teir Ille Rum. arson, his 'notion for the continuance of six Equerries on the Royal Estaahli , hmr•ul at ‘Vittchtor, till Slototty DEL The defaulters at the Ballot of yt slerday were repotted to the House, and the Meisthrr• eihsesst were ordered to attend on Tuesday, and some on subsequent days. ARMY FATIMATEs. Lord PALMERSTON said, he should, on Monday next, state to the House the number of the Forces intended to be kept up for the current year—but as the Finance Committee h.d not yet been r so allied to snake any Report, he consid .red it more convenient to postpone the consideration of the Army Estimates till after their Report should be laid en the table. Mr. Ca I.CrtAF r complained of the delay which had taken place its the sittings of the Koonce Committer - . Towards the end of the last Session, he had moved in► the Committee fur accounts of drawback► and homilies and other heads of expen diture, to the amount of eleven million., upon which, if i:.vestigated, he had hoped a great saving might be effected; but from the Welles% of the Session that could not be done. Ile loped an early meeting of the Committee would take place, for otherwise there could be no sati-factory result from their !Alums. The Storekeeper-Cleocreil'i accomits lie had also heel' desirous to examine into ; the Committee having been of opinion that it was " much larger than was necessary." But unless, he repeated, the Committee met early, no beot ficial effect would follow their :oopoi.llment. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHLQVUL agreed. that it was desirable the Committee slaeuld Inert as early as possible, to commence the important ob jects for which they had been appointed. The meetings hail been postponed on account of the most active Members having kern I.bociotpiy rn gaged on other Committees. Ile pledged himself, • however, that Ito time should he lo•t, sod lie hoped a meeting would be held ill the course of next week. 51r. CA LCRA FT said, that the presence of the active Members alluded to by the Right I Inflow able Gentleman, wee by no means necesrary to con stitute a meeiing, merely to snake an order for the prodoclio:i of pavers. The CHANCELLOR of the ELICHEQUER had no objection to producing the papers the honourable Member wished for. Mr. TtEntki EY could not conceive why the Noble Lord, to whom, he believed, the Right !honourable Gentleman at used, cnitlil not be rriiret+esiteil in the Committee by somebody eke, unless the Committee was intruded not to look to the interests of the people, but to carry into rili:ct the views of the Government.— ( I Icor, hear.) —lle was cone as tonished that though the Committee had been appointed a mouth, the Chairman hail not sum moned them fora single meeting. It proved, how ever, the correctness of has opinion on the sitter tn utility of the Committee—the whole was now lITOVtd to he a mockery —( I leur J —it load never meant any thing, it rill not then miscall any thing, and it never would mean any thing. Nothing e thectual i t would be dime till the Ilun•e took the affair into their own hands.— ( hear, hear.) ~~ •r► , . ...... COAL MT) r.s. Mr. WILMOT presented a Petition from the Burgesses and Isiliaintants of Newcasilr-under. Lyme, against the imposition of a tax on inland coal. lit said he was convinced of the injustice and im policy of such a duty, and would take another op portunity of expressing Ills bentirnelos on it more fully. The Petition was read, and laid on the table. PENAL CODE. A Petition was pri,iented frotn Liam', for o revi sion of the CIIII/111111 Law.—Read, and laid nes the table. LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY. JJ Sir MATTHEW W. RIDLEY boitt, that under standing the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Lord Castlereagh) had recently Hi:owned a me lancholy domestic calamity, he should postpone hi* motion for reducing the number of the Junior Lords of the Admiralty (which, we tidiest, btuod for the Ilth) till the Itttli of March. SALT DUTIES. Mr. It. GORDON — cggetilesve to ask the Mem ber for Wareham (Mr. Calcratt), whether he hod soy intention to move fur the re-appointment of the Committee on the Salt Duties, or to bring forward any other measure on the subject ? Mr. CAI CRAFI WWI sorry not to he able to answer the question. During the lost thrtnight he had been lo constantly employed on on Election that he was pr. vented from giving that :amnion to the subject he otherwise would here dune. The ► ime circumstance had prevented hint I. • 1 /r4i vtg-41111v**-8, 1 Ail e'xten.Teil to officers Lo1,1:ii; of emolument miller the Crown. It 'might be • ',ob ject of yonsidetution, elietlor it SIJOUIit be encod ed bother. Mr. 11F.I. rTT 111(.144101 a question to Lord Pot- AlEasTutt, the tenor nl which ae cou ld 110 t collect. COUNIITTF.E of SUPPLY. 0:1 tie motion of iVII r. AROUIIINtiT, the llowie resolved itself into S Catlllfillter or tiupply, to whit h weer ~fare-d tlie 111iscellaneutis Estimates awl the Civil Contingencies. lu the Committee. Mr. ARllvtiitorr said, the Finn untended to he proposed for the Moicelleneous I .. ..tiinates of the current rear, was ut the whole 534,000/. But, in consequence of the. Esiimates of last year haying been made op only to the 1011 i of October, he Should be obliged to move Cri. cer tain Bvms to mike up the arrests of the last quar ter. Th e w h o l e aunt last year to meet the civil efaitiagvaCial was lion,oool. There was a re ctor tom of 50,0001. made those of the present year ; a snot of 300,0e0/. was to be rooted fur to defray the general contiogeocirs. sad "tie or 450,0000. for separate charges—unikait iti the whole 550,000/. - _ Mr. A flown:110T tiien moved—. " That it is the, opinion of ibis Cornmitte►, that a siim of 79,1100/ be punted to his Majesty to make Rand ilir defi ciency in the giant of last year, to meet such ntotingruett• of a civil nature •s do nut form a part of the ordinary eharees on t h e Ord Liat."-.-Arred In: That • .om not rnrerditaz 300,0110, he :rooted to hie Majeaty. to defray noels civil rosstioerorire the Ine`eftt year, ando not form a part of the Unisons) charges on the I.i►l."—Agreed to: " That a soot of 50,4491. he wrested to his Majesty to make exert . he &Serene, of the fie food for the la.t mad to defray the salmi., of the Secretaries of Stair, the °Grua r.f the Treasury, and the Privy Causeil." Sir ii. PA RN EL f. !lid, that the accounts respect• ing the pro o.ed grant had beers 14td on the table ifl fltiell it mintier. ILA( it WWI not 4.117 to discover the pr.ci•e 11111111 W 111 which the different parts of it hid heel' applied. Ile ►opposed there *mild be sin object to producing papers. 'specifying exactly the pet ticulars of its application. Mr. A Rill! tII NOT professed his willingness to ars for-1 tiny tidortuation, or to prepare the papers derived. The CitAxcEm.ort. of the EXCHEQUER could have no object to bringing the subject, in all its particular.. muter the view of the house. Mr. ARBUTHNOT thought the !opera he held in his liewl already afforded very simple information. Alderman IVoou said, it appeared large sums of money had been expended in purchasing gold muff boxes to present to Foreign Ambassadors, winch ortaht to Lr ri•gorously inquired into. Mr. ARBUTHNOT said, the worthy Alderman was wider is wio a kf t . Tile ANcELLOR of the EXCHEQUER imagined that the sorihy Alderman mistook fees received for fees pool. Mr. f! c t.cOAYT hoped, that whatever had been tie mistake of his worthy friend, or the humour of the Right Honourable Gentleman. the House would not lie turned aside from their inquiry. The Cit.picEl.t.oe of the Exctittquesto the grant aas not fur the current year, but to make good the deficiency of the last year. which consideratuna ought to iuduce the House to agree to it. _ . . Mr. CAEcns rr thought. that if Ministers had Tea money improvidently, that was uo reason for editing on the lloo.e to make it up. Mr. AItBUTIINoT said it had been expended in m tug the salaiirs of Officers under Government. Mr. BARNETT would decirilly op p ose the grant. Mr. C. If. I !UTCIIIN , ON conceived it was the dotty of eiely Member el the House to draw its attention to 111011ty If *moo/. h a d !well III(' out 111 gold snuff-boxes for Foreign Atn- Invisittior.. lie 'Amid only term it a waste of the public money. Mr. AKBuTIU4oT was not anxious to press any of the votes, if Vientlernen opposite desired In post 4. pone them in oriler to oloato further information. As to the snuff-boxes, he had t• ve.y iiifurination ready to e.hrw on whit occasions, by whom they were ;vireo, and by ulivitt received. The iiintion was then withdrawn, Lord CAMIAMPION inquired whether any charge hail hero set down for snuff ?-1 A laugh.) A tivitton for 9,000/., to make good a further di lir it iicy in the fee fund, •as also withdrawn. A sum out exceeding 73,0001., defra)iiie r a n. tingrut expinnics mum the Treasury fur the year 11419. Agreed In. A pane of 6,n00t., to defray the salaries of the Officers in the Court of the Receipts, Exchequer. Mr. Illusts suggested the propriety of postpon ing this grant also. The CitaxcEi.roa of the EXcitEQUER said, the Goose could scarcely doubt the fitness of discharg iiig the salaries of the officers of so important a C4urt. The motion wss then rig reed tn. A sum not exceeding 14,5151. towards defraying the ex prows of the House of Lord. and the House of Commons, fur the year 1819 —Agreed to. A sum of 22,490/. to defray the salatiesallll allowances of tlw ufierr, of the Homes of Lords and Gumming+, fur the year IMO—Agreed to. A suns of Mt 4s. ld. to make good the deficiency in the salaries of the Officers of the Rousts of Linde and Commons fur the last year. A sum nut exceeding 41,9741. toward. defraying the ex poise, of wanks, and 'clans of public buildings, for the year 1119. Some conversation on this vote took place be tween Mr. Bennett, Mr. Arbuthnot, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Williams, and Sir M. W. Ridley. after which the motion was 'tweed to. A sum not exceeding 50,0001. towards Meting the lisland Navigation from lIIVVIIII Ss to Furl William. In reply to a remark of Mr. BENNETT - Mr. ARUUTHNOT said, that accost - ling to an estimate he had received on the work, it would take about 27,0001. to complete it. Mr. BANKLS spoke (as we understood him) against the 'notion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was ready to withdraw the 'notion. If (;eistlemen desired it, till there was a fuller lionse. Sir W. litigant:oils was hostile to the proposed grant. Stiangers were ordered to withdraw, hut no di. vision souk place; we ontlersintal the inotton was It lidrawn. On our re-admission to Ihr gallery. et found Mr. BRoGDEN enottplaionng of Nu olr.ervanons whirl' Mt. Foll*,l which nimuunted that he had put the que,non prennnorely. The CJIANCLI.I.OR Of the EXLIIEQUIR said, that _N ~ - ...•r infoorinalities must arise in the hurry of !Anoints* but in ulna case he did soot think any mistake hair occurred on justify any reflection upon the Clo.,irs Mall of tine Committee, and in general he thought it wonold be muck inner advisable to place an soln,n into. dependance on the derision), of the Chloe, Onto to tnal".e any observations which may appear to be captious cn particular nee*. . Mr. VuititES disclaimed having any intention of intornaiisig that the Chairlillall had cointontted anv im propriety. Mr. BROODER said hr was store his floonnoiralde Friend meant to cast no imputation, but his par ticular expression went to convey one. Mr. AatstretisioT moved, that it be the opinio n of the Committer, that a sum not exceed 74,932 L be granted for the maintenance and expenditure of the convicts employed at home for the }A pr i 81). Mr. BENNETT objected to the rummer in which this Estimate was made out ; be thought it by no means explanatory of the particular expenditure. Mr. ARBUTHNOT said, that it was made nut the usual manlier, nood was, in fact, less by 14,0001. than the sum applied to this purpose during the last year. Mr. RENNETT repeated lois dissatisfaction at lilt af:comot 3,000(. it appeared, was expended 'llon a a new convict ship._ . Mr. Alderman Woon said, that the expendi ture under this branch of the public service %AR enormous. There was u sort of credit, Or rather all allowance of ralculation, made rit the rate of I•. (i.t. a day fur labourers, and , 25.61, hir artificers, whirls lie thought was totally instiimided. lit• plmt he contemplated the public might save II01,0(19/. a yta►. Mr. CLIVE mud that economy was observer' throughout the a hole cf this department. Mr. Alderman %1 000 asked, whether any vet - ficate of a surveyor had been given of the done Mr. ARCUTIINOT said, that the accounts it.t regulJrly made up. The ft.llowiug Item!mint)* were then agreerlto:— That a sum not exceeding 2,777/. be granted for defraying Cie maintenance and expense of criminal lunatics, fur the year 1819. Tbat a sum not exceeding 8,004)1. he granted for the ex Unordinary expeni.es of the current year, which may `: incurred in prosectiling offenders for coining. That a sum not exceeding 20,000/ be granted for 111 , 9 charges. That a sum not ding 3,0001. be granted to the ca tions) vaccination establishment. That a Film not exceeding 17,(100/. lie grantrd fur . 1 , 6 and distributing the Acts of bi,tb Horses of Parlisme,t. Thal a sum nuts xc , cding 2,0001. be granted fur prinitn: the votes of the House. That a sum mot exceeding 149/ 9s. he granted fur defray ing the expense of printing the second volume of Journals of the Muse. That a sum not exceeding 11,000/. be granted for di fon ing the allowances to the American Loyalists. That a sum nut excediug 2511 . 101 be granted to &Loy the allowances to retired clerks in the lotterpoffice. That a sum not exceeding 2,4421. be granted to Wm! the allowanies to the superannuated and retired auditors of the public accounts. A sum of 9201. was granted for similar allowances in the Al tut department. That a sum not exceeding 282/. 13s. 4d. he granted for the supernumeraries to the office fur the payment of Ex chequer bills. That a sum not exceeding 558/. be granted to defray the allowance to the superintendent of the military roads 1., North Britain. Alr. CALCRAFT expressed his surprise at this Resolution, and said lie thought it singular that if such a vote were necessary, it had nut been ea:.. her introduced. The roads had been long since finished, and it was singular that no offer of peloic:: had been made until now. There was a reusoli is 7 it. The individual in question had, since the death of Sir John Anstruther, become possessed of one of the Scotch Burghs. The CHANCELLuR of EXCHIQUER 'said, that the pension had been agreed upon long before the death of Sir John Austruther, and not in contem plation of any such event as that alluded to. Mr. ARBUTHNOT said, the agreement had Iseeti made four or live years ago, ao her as a Treasury promise could be considered an agree►neut.--f .-1 laugh.) Mr. Wit.r.tAsis asked, how long the had served who was to receive this allowance? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that the accounts on the table, relative to the mili tary roads in Scotland, would explain the nature and duration of the service. That a sum not exceeding 425/. be granted to William Bell, a shipwright in Canada, as the balance due of a rm., ing alluwance, upon an agreement of 1501. a year. This Resolution was agreed to, after a few malls as to the form of the accounts, and manlier of in troducing it, from Mr. GORDON. Mr. HUTCHINSON gave notice, that on Moo tidy next lie would take the sense of the House ►• the item of the expenditure, upon which he ihid already made a few observations. The House then resumed, trod the Report of IL.. Committee was ordered to be received on Moo dy asst. H A LF-PA Y. Mr. LYTTErrox oi•lieci to ask the Noble Lord opposite (Lord l'alieserstoti) whether any resolution lied hero enure to regarding the oath to lie t+l ken by officers on hail-pay, at the brut of receiving their hulf-pay ? Lord PALNIERSTON bid not been able to give it satisfactory account last Session to u *amain ques- Hon from the lion. Gentleman. lie tiusted, finw eve*, that that lie had to make now would he prr f.etty satisfrctory. Ile now had it iu his poorer to tell the honourable Member, that it had been thought expedient so frr to relit,' the rule referred to, that whereas by the tomtit regulation no officer could receive Ins hall-pry without tucking an affi davit that lie held no other place of emolu ment, civil or military, under his Majesty, it had been resolved to substitute au oath. that he held no office, civil or militaty, wider the Crown. excerdiag three times the amount of his which was computed to be equal to about twice the amount of las 101 l pay ; and con sidering that the greater number of officers, parti cularly inferior ones, had little chalice of future employment, lie hoped the honer would not look upon the amended regulation as too liberal. Mr. LYTTIit.TON said, the answer of the Noble Lord was entirely aatisfactory. Alderman WooD begged to know, whether soy regulation had been adopted respecting officers entitled to half-pry servitig tinder Foreign Powers ? Lord PALMERSION s:.id, that the prohibition BALANCES IN THE BANK. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 'UtVe notice, that on Monday next, when the II v,.•t• would have under its coosideratioit the ils:t+ five to the application of the Consolidated Fod, hr meant to submit a proposition for the purr ic at tendering available the public balances in the h of the Bank. Mr. GRENFELL inquired whether he was to ni - derstand that the whole of the public balances., na the hands of the Bank, were to be rendered a VN°l•• able, in the shape of the interest accruing bola them, for the public ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that his arrangement would embrace the balaucts on the Exchequer Bills account. Mr. GRENFELL hoped be would not he colkei! to bring this case again under the considerabon or Parliament, which lie certainly would do, if the Right Hon. Geutlemon's plan was merely to hair a partial affect. Ir it were merely to be contine.! to the balances upon Exchequer fills, the benerit to the public would be comparatively of no import ance. There were. for instance, the balances iron: the Cuomo, the Exi-ise, the Post-office, and tin various public departments, the siccriomt itoeie-t of which the public ought to receive. The abol‘ ought to be made available. The CHANCELLOR of this EXCHEQUER said, t of the current balances in the Bank, which ainstint rd to silent seven millions, his plan would rutin - act about six. • . The Nassau Salt act, the Wool Impoisst ----mmiNIENNEI•ENNOJ