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21,448/. at the disposal of the Home, arising from wont, mule last year by the Commissioners op -pointed to nentage cotninercial Exchequer bills, issued to 'prim in the carrying on of public works. The total amount of those Ways and Means, which might be considered as the ready money arising AU, of the ordinary resources of the year, was 7,271.44111. He did not, in the present year, look famed to any surplus of the Cro.solidated Fund, as applicable to dm Woes and Nieuwe ; for, though he strongly believed that n surplus would he re yet, tar it would net be more than sufficient make goad the *emir of the last year, he could not mist avail himself of it. He would reserve whatever might thus accrue, to balance the sneer of the list year ; but next year he hoped there would Ise a sum of conaiderable amount, dia. posable for the service of that year. The items be he stated formed a net sum of 7,271,448 ; and, compared with the total of the supply, i 1,612,0664 left a anus or 14,340.638/. to be provided for by some mein, ur others—( Hear, hear. hear.) — To provide fur the sum of 14,006.0001 and for • Considerable reduction of the unftinded debt. the Government had to submit to the consideration of Parliament the arrangement which he was sow shout to state. In the first place, it was necessary fur him to point out the objects which Miuisters have had in view, iii the transaction lie was going to ex plain to the Committee. The first of these was, to make a considerable reduction of the unfunded debt outstanding. The Committee were perfectly aware, that it had always been the object of Go vernment, on the conclusion of peace, to seize the earliest period for converting into a funded debt (the interest of which was to be provided for) a great part of the unfunded debt, which had accu. outdated in time of war. His reasons for adopting this system were various. The first was one of no material public consequence—but he conceived it seas right that he should state it. In the year 1816 Ile Rove a sort of notice, that, after the expiration ef two years, he would provide for the amount of unfunded debt accumulated in that sod the two *acceding years, supposing the state of public af fairs to be favourable for such an operation. He, of course. would not be justified in trying this ex periment, merely for the sake of' coissisteney— merely to meet that expectation to which his state recut might have given rise. —( Hear, hear.) — Bid certainly it was satisfactory to know that his hopes Ited been realised—and he could confidently decline to the Committee, that all which be had stated was more than fulfilled. The terms on which the bargain had been made he would pre *rutty state—but he would proceed, in the first ' , ince, to detail the more important considerations. %inch induced him to conclude that bargain, which had for its object the reduction of the unfunded debt. In the first place, the un funded debt had increased in a very consider. side degree, in a manner indeed that had been much complained of, and though it was not hurtful to the public service, and was provided for with an extraordm iry degree of economy, yet it was deemed impolitic to leave so large an arrear of debt un filmier!. During the two keit years it hail increased, in consequence of the necessities of the country, upo-ir , la of 18,000,0001. In consequence of certain of the war taxes having been discontinued, it had accuinithited, from tear to year, and there was so much as 50 •r 1i0,000,0001. outstandiug in the beginning of the present. This was found to be a very great inconvemence—and, therefore, he thought it right to take the first favourable opportunity to bring the unfunded debt within a tome moderate compass. Amongst the circumstances which in flayed M;nisters to lower the quantity of unfunded debt, one was, that it could be dont on terms 'nobly favourable to the country. The state of the funds and of public credit must, of' course, in fluence their conduct in the adoption of such a plan—and, he would ask, could they expect cit.• ciiinstences, on the whole, more favourable for such an attempt, than they were at present? All the ciicusnstinces connected with public tranquil lity and reviving prosperity, justified them in pro ceeding as they had dune. The expectation he held out in 1816, when the resolution was taken to rise money, by au increase of the unfunded debt (rather than by a loan or other means), chargeable in the Consolidated Fund, was now realised. He then raid, that the interest on the bargain with the public, supposing the sum bor rowed to he repaid by a loan, would produce • considerable saving of private capital. He stated that some persons were very sanguine in their ex pectations ou this head, but that it was dangerous to huzard conjectures of such a uature as they in dulged in. Some of those persons supposed the 3 per cents. would not he less than 80, if the operation were carried on in this way. But he had Lel& the if, instead of 80, thew ruse to 75 per cent. the difference between funding and issuing Exchequer Bill, would be 2,000,000/. He had seen that calculation more than realised—and lie had to state the terms on which he hid funded 16,000,0001. of unfunded debt, at a price infinitely lets than he had previously conceived he could have dune it fur. A third reason which induced Illinisters, at the present time, to convert unfunded debt into capital stock, was the reduction of in the funded debt, since the conclusion of peace. Gentlemen were not perhaps aware of the progress which the sinking fund had made, within * few years, in reducing the nationel debt. Stowe the peace with France, 50,000,000/. of capital of funded debt had been purchased. On the Ist of November, 1815, the funded debt was 50,000,000/. 1.:41,er tl•aii it was at present—so that if be now Bolded 5 , 1,000,000/. of unfunded debt, the funded debt would not be more extensive than it was two }cars ;Igo. The object of all these arrangements was to reduce the unfunded debt by clearing the money market of the outstanding Exchequer Bills. It Wm% eX 'weird, that in comequence of the advantages held out to the proprietors of stock, as it at present storal, that they would have no objection to change then stock, for stock upon the new system of bor tuaing, which it was his isitentiou to submit to the The new system depended in a great mea sure on the substitution of one stuck for another, the result of which, he trusted, he should be able to }Hove would be highly advantageous to the coon "Y• The arrangement proposed was to substitute plepi• of 3 per cent. stock, a stock 'tenting int.:est at 3l per cent. By this project, which lie ~ - (1 would be carried into operation by the next so.inni, It uas expected that two very considerable I i• . • points 000 lit he g4O 'Vaal, that d b gained fol ( the Is 'name of the debt; sod, srlettisdlf s shit luck f chldwe old be better thlis the redifetion of either diet xN S bet cents., because it might reesoftelsty be expected 'that 31 pervent. wbtlld definer ,rtse to par than either 4or 5 per cent. It would, perhaps, upon experiment, be proved, that it would bk more satis factory to the 5 per cent. holders to have their stock reduced upon these terms to 3i per cent. with an assurance that this new-created stock should not be hereafter redbeed to • lower rkitenf interest titan hold a newly-cremed flock at 4 per cent. with out each an assurance. The system would then he more advantageous to the holders of public stock, and yet more beneficial to the public service. It was intended to create by this means a capital in stock of Q 7 millions. The subscribers to t h ii newly-created fund, in consideration of transferring their 3 percent, stock to dirt of 31 per cent. and paying II per cent...a beatsstoGovernment, receiv ed tool. 31 per cent. stock. The price of the 3 per cents. at this day fluctuated from 79 to 80, the average advantage on the bargain was as 13 per cent. whilst Government accepting 11 per cent. for the exchange, there was an apparent bones of per cent. held out to the subscribers, besides a protection given against reduction to this species of debt—an experiment which had been already tried last Session with success, by the 57th of the King. to Irish 31 per cents. Under this arrangement, iu Ireland it had been Touted that although a considerable portion of the nominal capital had been sacrificed, yet there had been not less than half a million subicribed—a sum by too mama in the scale of Irish stock. Bitt he had ar gued that the public would be Much advan taged by creating another stork like that which he now proposed, which, being payable in Lon don, would be more acceptable. But as he could not depend on the transfer of 100,000,0001. as had been advertised for on the 14th of April, a sulk tenpins') had been proposed, or held out, of another kind, to raise part of the supplies of the year. As a means of raising a further sum, an option had been given to holders of Exchequer Bills to he come subscribers to thi species of stock. During the first three days, 6,000,000/. had been subscrib..' ed (an inconsiderable sum. it laving been expected that it would require a transfer of 11.000.0001- to complete the desired object). He had the lupin. newt to find that on Fridays very considerable sum was funded, and that on this day the whole 27.000,000/. hail been nerdy transferred. It was intended that a sum created by an appropriation of 1 per cent. on this stock should be annually appro priated to the purchase of the stork so long as it coutinueed under par. The total amount of stock intended to be transferred out of the original stock• in which it had stood, was 34,909.0001- of which 27,273,000/. was to be funded in the newly-created' 31 per rent. stock, the remainder in the 3 per cent. The difference in the interest due upon the present' 3 per cents. compared with that of the interest on the 31 per cent, would amount to 136,3.521. The terms on which this ~dvance was expected to be created, would be fumed to he extremely low, amounting upon the whole operation los rate or in• tercet not exceeding 4/. Ins. lofd. per cent. Upon this newly-created fund,• it was intended to create • sinking fund, when they should arrive at 80. The total charge on the whole operation, it was expected, would not exceed 1.6i5.000/. He felt happy in having to congratulate the House and the country on the terms upon which these arrangements had been concluded, as more advantageous titan any which had hitherto bean transacted. About the same period after the close of the American war as had elapited sines the conclusion of the late peace, Mr. Pitt had funded his Exchequer Bills, to the amount of ten millions, in the 5 per cents. whet. their actual price was from 55 to'sB per cent. and concluded the arrangement at from 58 to 59 per rent. Owing to the operation of the Sinking Fund, our funds hat risen, and the 3 per cents. which were at the close of the late war at 56 were now at 80, which had been et: fected principally through the medium . of the ap plication of the Sinking Fund, which had enabled Government to command the money market. and had matured the operation of the other funds. He was aware olonettrcumstance which might certain ly le objected, but which, in his opinion, was a matter of no very peat moment. It Might be imagined, perhaps, dolt the subscribers misfit di. cline the contract. Therewere two reasons why lie should think they would not—the &St' was, be. cause in general the option afforded them was, as usual, favourable to their interests; and the second was, that the subscribers, in all former cases, up to this hour, had never yet declined con cluding the optional part of their contract.-- With respect to the Consolidated Fuld, no change had been intended. When'the pence of. 1814 had been concluded, it had been held eat that the sur • plus might he made a species of fund towards a new loan. It should be therefore his care not to increase the chow on it next Session. The object he should pursue with peculiar satisfaction to him self, was to leave in the hands of the Commissioners as much as possible, so as to pay the mitres, of the new loan, and yet ►o as not to increase the stock in the hands of the Commissioners. The improve ments of the Revenue and Excise, which he thought, without being considered excessive, he tnitht estimate at three millions and a hail, was peculiarly gratifyiug during the last quarter. On the last year. therefore, there had teen an iu crease of 515,0001. which amounted to more than ten pounds per cent. on the whole ac count. There *as another circumstance to which it was necessary merely to refer for the sake of ex• planation, which was, that there had been a great anticipation of the sugar duties in the year pre ceding. The produce this last year war considera bly beyond its former amount, which only proves bow far it would have exceeded its former produce had it not been necessa►y so far to have anticipated this part of the revenue. Looking to the improve mein of our navigation, manufachorea, and internal industry, he entertained a strong conviction the lapse of a few weeks would afford very considerable additions to the Consolidated Fund ; in the next year he expected that very considerable additional funds would arise. The Right Hun. Gentleman then moved his brat'vestolution, That any person or persons who shall, oa or before lbe 14th of April, subscribe 2,5001. Mork in the 3-per cents. to the account of the new stock 'of 31 *heats. shall; upon • .caseti stbeic iroidlfseriLhll bring tistisferre4 to the said tie. •conet by the Governors and Company of the Bank of Erie lewd, and span the 'marmot of I 1 /. per cent. in money, be entitled to 190/. in the said new SI per cent, fur every 1001. moper cent. so subscribed and trans fer red The whole of the usey shbacription to be completed in payments 4 one I pound per cent. each month. and the whole to beeitnally ' made good and paid on the 4th of February next.. 'llse mid nevrlywreated stuck not to be liable to he paid off until April 1859. The Resolution being put, Mr. BROUGHAM, although lie could tint take upon himself to enter into a question like the pre sent, containing such se multiplicity of dead, mill must avow his dissatisfaction with twiny of the ob serrations that the Right Hon. Gentleman had snide. The great mini throughout all his speech was, to conceal „his object—namely, that there being r clear itelicit of fourteen millions, it was neeessery to mite this fourteen aniline* in some way or other. he whole ingenuity of the plan consisted its stu diously avoiding the ordinary form of borrowing, mild thus disguisiug it under a different name, the interest of which onset be defrayed by the operation of the Sinking . Fund, ju part.— To present to the House it finaiiciii meat of this Wore, after the third or Ninth yei. of peace, and assert it *as • subject of emigre. tidatirm i was too much to expect the House should hear without expressing it. displeasure, or at least ill dissent. So far froin making both ends meet,. Ministers were obliged to have recourse to the old war meilts. These pouters of revenue even had run dry, and they had now attempted to charge part of the interest on the Sinking Fend. This great plan of finance was nothing more than • sort of lialfWay-lionse in the decline of the funds' former stability, rod it' must he expected the 4 and 5 tier cents. would so dile progress be reduced also. He protested against this Budget ; it embraced the con temptible sad trifling, hot disgraceful and immoral profits of the lottery ; 400,090/. had been sacrificed to the cause of justice and humanity in the case of the slave 'redo, of which he appealed ; hest why had not this 250,0001. been is well sacrificed ?. They would no doubt reply they could not spare it. So much the worse. He had risen merely be anise he felt it was due to the character of the Millet., that the first period who rose to speak on it, should enter his strongest protest against it. Mr. GaitairEm. expressed his decided disappro bation of tine boasted plan, as bring one of the must improvident bargains ever made for the . public by any financier. lie contended, the option was greatly in favour of the subscriber, who might, if the stock rose, Rorke good his engagetnent, but it it declined lie was very likely to decline if.— Nothing could be more improvident than funding Exchequer Bills at 79, when it might as_well be done by a loan at once, and less expense. Mr. Maseithe considered this had been con tracted on advantageous terms to the country. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQU RR admitted there was a deficit of 14 millions, as had been stated, but • great part ..f this had driven out of the ex traordinary charges of the year. Another Charge had arisen out of the increase of the use funded debt. The amount of Exchequer Bills next year Wouldliot exceed 40 millions, and at pre sent they only bore interest .at id. per day. There consideratienii warranted hiM in saying, there must be a considerable available surplus this year. Many were happy, and there would be found still many more disputed to subscribe to the proposed plan, although that could not bethought a bail bargain for the public, where thectiontky was paying off a debt of 4,000,000/. by a payinent of 50.0001. a year. Mr. F. Lewis entered at considerable length into the merits of the praposition. lie contended it was imprudent policy indeed. when motley private life could be had at fotir per cent. that' Government should' be foolish ennugh to give RAW and a hull for money flit the /Midi/ use. Althittikh' it increased the intl.:test; it' provided for no reduc. lion until this near stock was shave 90 per cent. the streams of the three add a half per cent. com pared with stock now, beitigl7/: 1-01. Though the reduction of course was' desirable, he contended it was desirable is. this way. Filially, he ()Netted' to it as it rendered the Sinking Fund's mire ominousl and inefficient piste of machinery, prodUctive of no general benefit. Mr. H. Davis approved of the proposed plan, and saw no prejudicial consegitentes likely tO . arise from the increased rale of interest. In reply to a question from Mr. Alderman SHAW, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated. did . Commissioners for sedating the debt would of (vitae' purchase such stock as waslowfat in the mart. Sir JOHN NFWPOLT sa* no mown why the holders of this stock should be secure from a re d uctioit, whennthe holders of offiek'stick 146' . net provided with any such protecting clatiliat'ega . Ina their stock being r ed uc ed, an d considel.eo th e bar: gain imprrividebt MA detrimental to the (financial intereats of the certainty. Mr. HUSKIS§ON contended, that the rarirket'lnul never been SO open to persons of every deacrip pro.int. Any petson who could coin mend a con' le of tkoutnaud poiands might en ter the market: For his part a be should li.. to see the whole of the d e bt re d uce d i n same way as this'had been, although' the money . had been raised to do it at 4 per cent. interest. lie contended that no proper distinction was slrawn between the necessary means of feeding a Budget in time of war, and one for a race estahliskineid, and warinly enforced the necessity of not postponing . for another year the effective consideration of' the' finances of the country, and looking at its pernni: neat expenditure and the means by which it could be met. Mr. J. P. GRANT said, that the great' merit which wai attributed to the Right . Hon. 'Gentle man's plan was simply this, that the charges in the amount of interest were less iii raising a larger &init. ! ing fund on a smaller capital, than in raising.. larger capital on a smaller sinking fund. This was a cl ea r and indisputable proposition. But still in,the mode of doing it, rather a loss than • saving bactuceurred : 'for here the country had to pay an tuterest,of on every 111. raised.; this was at the meat/. 101.; whereas, by other means, money naigtit be ►rased at 41. or perhaps 3/. 17*. 'the great insportance, in a larger view of this subject, was tl'e r e lative M.. tustion between the public debt and the means fur its ultimate and systematic liquidation. There was what Vll4l called an extraordinary expenditure of one million Bad a half this year. which would not ~..-. r • ..- recur., The Charge on 40 millions in Exchcqoer Bills *as upwards of 1,600,000/. while the new plan entilllld stn eipenie of 1,183,0001.; and one moat materiel objection he had to urge. was the applicability of the Sinking Fund to pay off the iiiterest 4 which was the worst possible way of ap plying it; the saving, therefore, which they bud heard an'hithly prised, was, in fact, payable out ~f the Sinking Faisul. He concurred in the im mediate sieeessity of preparing a permanent Ilium , vial plait for the consideration of the House, in stead of trying . to postpone. the evil day by a talc- Cession . or inefrectiial expedients. Mr. C. Glans`, juii. insisted that there was no thing novel or unprecedented in the arrangement of his night lieu. Friend. It was the same that IA been acted pOog itu a larger scale by Mr. Pitt, the great author of the Sinking Food, when he created the .1 tier centi: the iint!rifect and int 'wink pun of inereasing the nominal plan without a closer referent* to the amount of the real debt.— By the proposed plan 30.000,000/. was raised, hy creating a eapitill something exceeding 34.000,000/. The expense was at the rate of 128!. stock; though by any other plan, and taking the stocks in the most favourable light at 80, it would hive cost at the rate of 1381. It was unfair to take the general calculation by. piece -meal. instead of looking at it as a whole, and under the circumstances in which it was taken. There was, in fact, a oaring of 90,0001 . . in the mode of raising the money. besides am ineretne of cannel, and its favourable couse queoces oat the funds. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman recapitulated some of the details of the plan. us stated by the Chancellor of the Exche quer. and expressed his warm approbation of its merits. Mr. LYTTE !SON could not give his intent .to one paiiicalsir hart in the Budget—the Lotteries. It was most extraordinary, that at the time the It‘ght Host. Gentleman wai. voting 1,000,000/. for the building of new churches, Ise was shirt inconsi.t. roily wiling Lip uew Lotteries, or rather establish ing gainiaig4iouses all over the country. The Right Mob. Gentletium had described himself as a hardened sitner-1111W. on the cootisiy. He (Mr. Lytteltots) thought lino a my? vane, and one that bent his, conscience to suit the ends or his,policy.— (Longhter,)—Ditfering, however, as he did, iu his notiMis of Morality trout the Right Hon. Gentle man, he would still persist' in his iisteiition of press ing. the abolition of Lotteries on the attention of the House.—(lieur; /tear; ; ) Mr. PAENFELI. wilted to ask sire Right Hon. Gentleman a question ott this subject. Suppose the three per cents. at 80, and the 31 at 91, it would be a decided advantage to Coni4o , sioiKts to Isurchake in the latter ; under lieliciii:unistaiices, and a compaVatiie difference of 1 a would not.the Bight /lon. Gentleman advise the Commissioners to purchase in the 3i per cents. ? The eitimcm.i.ost of the Excuviruma replied, that he ought not' to be called upon to state what advice he may give the Coiumistioriers; but he had no objecticht to state that it would be advantageous for tilts and the next year to purchrarg in the Sipe,. cents, but not to appropriate the whole of their fun& in that channel. The Keiolutioris of the CuAticet,toit of the EXCHEQUER were then put and passed: MANX OF ENGLAND. Mr. Guturii.l. - l agged to r.k the Hight'lion, Gentleman a question on the terms ins which a part of the public business was done at the 144. On every loan for the public service, a fee of iud. iu each 1004 was ptiid to the Bank for merely re ceiving' the deposits. This exorbitant charge amounted during the lust war to several hundred thousand pounds, and on the loan of 1815 to no less a 'sem titan 40,Qb01. MI the different Cow ! mitts*" that, sat on his subject hod put their lingirs 'On thii . einsibiono and unnecessary charge, and yet it wad continued. Would this charge be made on the present loan, und' at whit rate, whether to the moo,oool. or to the so,oop,oooL ? The css t scp.r.ua of the EXcIILQUER replied, in a low ' tone of voice, that Ole demand would inert. ly apply to the cash part of the loan. Mr. GRENiELL staid, Oda the dernanctwithsis obviously objectionable, whether it applied so 3,000.000/, or to 30,000,090/, that, if persisted io, he would take the seuse of the House in every stage of the measure. —(Hear, htar.i The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered to lie received too-morrow. . . - FF.TER HOSPITAL. IN DUBLIN: On the mutton of Sir JoHN NEWPORT, returns were ordered of the number of Patients adulated into . this Hbilpital during the haat year. OFFENDERS CONVICTION BILL. On the mintiest Mr. itp4 Imre'. atter a few ob seryetkulisirolo Mr. STuaGti Buysps and the ATI Toßi i ity 7 ditiktts P., the' Cqguanittee.on the ,Olten deaConelettenll' was iiastjioned u n til Monday. ARTILLEIti DRIVER 4. Mr. BgN N 1160 pOStpOliell: until IWO day week, los wooing relative to Artillery Drivers, after a few words flout the CH•NcIELLoa of the Eh CHEQVER. PARISH VESTRIES BILL. s. _ On the motion of Mr. &wafts 11:36Cratrit, the• Home wept into a Committee on the Pariah .l'es-1 tiles Bill, 'Olen, on the 'notion of Mr. Alderman Wood, a Omni: wis agreed, to, to exempt the City of London froth - the operitiati . of the' Hill. The Hobs, revoinell,and'the Report was 'ordered to be received to.inorrow. POOL; t.oss AMENDMENT DILL. On the ►uotiou of Mr. STURGES Boyawit, the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Poor Laws Amendment Bill, when some conversation arose on the clans* fo► the appeal of paupers to two Justices'of the Peace, when refused relief by piro. cilial. overseer,. Mr. S.- BOURN% took occasion to state, that a miacouception had gone abroad respecting what he mild on a former night of the wages of labourers being reduced' to 6d. a day in a particular pariah, ■nd the poor people thmisii hack on the poor's rates for the remainder of their anbliatauce. The pariah he had mimed was flollesley, and the pray lice anis most cenaurable.—( Hear.) Sir CiIARI.44I MONCY and Mr. Ginocei suggest• ed au alteration its the claase for the disposal et children iu workhouses, and recommended ttont, they should, with the consent of their Parents, be pieced . out at handicraft trades.- sir. H. St:NINFR, ColOuel E1.1.1190N. end SiT T. ••• • • risntisit , concurred in the propriety's,' niterriat nig the parish officers from itulding their weethogt at ale-(rouses, where an unnecessary expense was uniformly incurred. Mr. C. GRANT objected to the clause, because, while it prevented parents from spending the money gratiteel to them for the support * .their children, it encouraged, in the latter, a fondness for parochial assistance. Colonel WOOD and Mr. MSXISSON defended the clause us one of a very beneficial failure. Mr. LYTTELTON considered the clause as ob jectionable—but he would agree to it, considering this Bill to be merely an incipient measure. After a few.pbservations front Mr. BUTTERWORTH. Mr. Cuttwast, Lord CosirToN, and Mr. F. DouGt.ss, the original clause wa•, agreed to. Thr liouse then resumed, the Chairman reported iwogress end obtained leave to sit again this day. Lord. STANLEY gave notice that he would this day move for a Coiuniittee to inquire Into the state of the cotton manufacture. COPYRIGHT ACTS. , Mr. WYNN moved that • Select Committee I;e appointed to inquire into the different Acts relative to copyright. and tp report to the House what alterations are necessary to be made therein.-+ Agreed to. Tire Petitions respecting copyright, presented to Parliament during the 'present Session, were or dered to be referred to the said Cornmitter —and also the returns of hooks demanded by public libraries from Stationers' Hail. Mr. Beoootai brought up the Report of the Irish ?thee/el. Igneous servicea.—The resolutions were ordered to be taken into further rouoideration on Wednesday next. The Innkeepers' Bill went through a Corinnittee Report this dap. ~ Mr. Alderman Wooer brought in • Bill fur the better enr, pinyment of the pour us Ireland, by the turunragement of partnerships —Read • first, ordered to be read a seessuJ time on• Monday sleet, and tube printed. . Paw. Hydrometer' Bill went through perlansaitieti. Biker e few words from Mr. Alderman Arninii sad Mr. ING7oll.—Report OR ,Thursday. /Or. Lustuierrow presenter) an account of the number of ornery,' widows on the ruperannuated Bac—Ordered to be printed. Mr. 61•11111101011 • brtiorld• in the Duke of Cambridge's Provision Bill.—Rimagairss,and ordered to be read a second . time this day. . • • Mr. Lusmetreolt brought is the Duchess of Cumbaer land's Jointure Bill.—Read a first, and ordered to be read a second time this day. Adjourned at ONi OTI.OcK. • ----. LIST OP TNb• MINORITY WHO VOTED TOR THE LARGE GEAR? TO III! ROTAS: HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF ELARENCL. A bereromby, Ho.A. Fuster,'L. Paget, Hon. C. /Ulan, G. Franco, R. Pahorr, Col. Arbuthuot, Rt. Ho. Frank, Admiral Peel. Sir R. C. F ,C. Peri. Right Hon. R. A pail, Lord Pynes, H. Peel, W. Y. Barry, acne. Jahn Grant, Col. Percy, ILiii. J. thutstißi. Hu.C. Gam'', Sir R. Pennant, G. H. D. 1111013, It. Gipps, Gt o. Phipps, Hon. Gen. Buxton, J. Golding Ed. Pole, Sir C. Beresford, Lord G. G ooc h, J. S. Pin tcr, Gin. Bereslord, Sir .t. Goulburn, H. Powell; W. E., Bernard, Vise. Goyim , Earl Pringle, Sir W. Binning, Lord Grist, C. jun. (Itiliv,• Hon. W. If. Btackberite, .1. (kaya IS k s H. Sir C. Itecksawage, Lord Rlackburne J. J. Gunning, Sir G. Rownd, J. Roane!, Alex. Holmes, Win. Ryder, Rt. Ha. R. • Bridport, Lord Riney, C. ISobhistio,Rt. an,. Butler, Hon. H.C. HIII, Sir G. F. St Pail, Sik $l. Boerne, Right Ho. Hope, Geo. A. Scott, Sir W. W. S. Horrucks, S. Scott, E. Brooke, C. Howard, Lord H. M.Shaw, R. Brydges, Sir J. E. Hume, Sir A. Shepherd, Sir S. Calvert, John Hurkision, Rt: Hn. Singleton, Sir M. Copley, J. S. W. Smith, T. A. Cotigreve, Sir W. Holford, G. P. Somerset. Lord G. Compton, Earl of Hulse, Sir C. Spenser, •Sir B. Cole; Sir C. Jackson, Sir .1. Stanhope, Hnii..l. Colitinrat, Sir N. C. Jeukiason, Hon. C. Stirling, ,Sir W. Causing, Rt. Hn.G. boles, Hugh Stopford, Ho. Sir E. Canning, G. Keane, Sir John Strict, J. 11. Cartwright, W. R. Kerriam, Nit Ed. Sullivan, Rt. Hii. J. Castles:nigh, Via. lii,irkwill, Vis. St robes,' A . Chute, W. Liman, Lord Sykes, air M. Clerk, Sit G. Laeon, E. K. Thorattna, Gen. Cline; Henry Leigh; J. H, Tliyone, Lord J. Collett, Ehee. J. Littleton, Ed. Townshend, Hun. Cuurteusy, T. P. Long, Rt. Hon. C. HG. P. Criniptane, Via- LionASOldi Co! Trefstiivii Him. C. Ctklott, R A. Lopez, Sir M. I,lre, M. eruhrt, 3. W. Laiuvaine, Lord Valletort, Via. .. Curtis. Sir W. Luthington, S. It. Vansittart,Ri.Ha.N. Coat, Hon. W. Luttrell, H. P. Vernon; George C 111114114 Hon. R. Lygan, Mon. H. IL WakpoM, Lord Chichester, Arthur Maitland, J., Wallsecit t . Hon. T. Deering, C. Moberly, John Ward, R. Dalrymple, A. J. Macdonald, R. Warrender, Sir G. Dishrowe, Col. M arjuribaiiiiii, Sir J. Wetherell, C. Dundas, Rt. Ho. W. Manama, Lord R. White, M. Dulfrrin, Lord MIIIIIIKIP, R. %Ivan., IL Dawkins, J. March, Earl of Williams, R. Durteombe, C. Marsh, C. Wilvouu, Cr E. Domino, G. Mellish, W. Wildman, — Eliot, Hon. W. Michell, Gaa. Wise, A. Eatcouri, T. G. Mond', Sir C. Wood, Sri M. Evelyn, L. Moore, Lord H. Wood. M. jun. Ease, J. T. Moorsom, Sir R. Wood, Col. Fllf•Mili, R. 141a4101101. II: Worcester; Marti. of Farquhar, J. Mseoitoehie, A. Wrotteslel, H. Ferraro ,J: . Mom, W. T. IYibit, re. Finob,•Hosi. Ed. Neville, R. Yorke, Rt. Hn. C. Filsharris, VIIC. Nichol, Rt Hn.SirJ. Fitalingli, Wan. Oshnened. R. Paarrerr nor; Fliod; Sir F. Owen, Sir John Murray, Gen. sir'. Forbes, Via. Paget, Ho•. B. Yarmouth, Earl of Forrester, Cecil The name of Sit M. B. Mies sms, by mistake, omitted in the list of those that voted against the large pant. Should any mistake have occurred in the above list. in eounibquemee of the House having divided in Committ ee ; wi t shall be happy to rectify it. . . • • LAW ErfELLIGENCE., t. ,••• COVIIT OF KINGS fIENCHOCIIBTImerguI, MoNDAT, Aran. 40. _APPEAL OF =ROM WM. ARIIFOILD V; AlltitliAlt 111 , 01111 TOW. This extraordinary cause wail decided thia incom ing. On the Judges taking their seats on the Bench,_ • Mr.Goaxitv rose and said, their Lordships 1n,%. mg beau pleased to indulge the Appellant's Conn ,ael by amain a day, to allow them to consider whether they would pray the Court to prouount e ' lodgment on the counter-plea—whetlter battle :should be waged or the Defendsiit suffered to go without a day—lie had now to state, that he had uu 'prayer to make to the Court. Mr. itssoco—•• My Lords, I apprehend the Appellant must he called." Lord ELLENBOROUGH" Call the Appellant." The proper Officer then proceeded to say— ,~ (, 1, ~: ij ~ ,' ~~ ~~ k '~. ~ -.