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ingtoncee in g hich the boat had been found ear treitiply vsiusbie, awl had paved many lives. The Petition Was then mid and laid ou the Lible. LEATHER TAX. Mr. CA RKW presented a Pe, iuun from thetanneli of the Town of New Rows, iu the County of Wex ford. praying Inv a reduction sod :alteration of the duties imposed ail the of Leather no lrelatid. The [lnn. Member accompanied the Petition with some statements and remark., which the Dowse no the gallery reudered wholly inaudible Ise oss. Lord A Vfl4OlllP questioned the abatement) of the WM. Member, and gave notice that he would, nu an early day, move fur certain papers to silo, the produce of the tax in Ireland, fur a certain period. Mr. CoLet.ocmt .tip portrd the prayer of the l'etttion, .and made a variety of observations on the rtfects produced no the quality of bark by the dd . - fervid climates of Europe. He said lie would not trouble the House with a eIiPOSICIII dissertation ou the different qualities of hark. No far as to the tainting property, he would refer Gentleuien {whom he wished to be persuaded of the peculiar hardship In which the tanners of Ireland are subject) to look at lice slitrcrelit monlvws of the several honk,' of the Southern parts of Europe, compared with those of the northern, and they would nod the proportion of tan. g mutter rematltahly inferior in the barks of ire land, rcsattring from the swampy soil and the damp ellowsir. more than from the difference of tempera ture. In comparing the srsearches of Mr. made at the late Duke of Bedford's laboratory, with corresponding experiments made in the south of France, they will find that the rroportoolt of hark iaa Ireland mtrst he nearly our-third more to pro duce the same of even in England. Ile said he should slot trespass on the House any further ou this occasion, hut wotolol reserve himself to enter snore largely into this subject at a future period, when Is 'lll,llller of Petitions will, as he was infortned, he brought forward, of the mine tendency. Alderman Woof/ presented a Petition from the Churchwardens and Ministers of the Parish of Cleikenwell• praying for on alteration of tht duties out Co4l.—lttilifl. and laid on the table. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. The smite M. oilier presented n Petition from the Wind of ---, in the City of London, praying a modification of the losolvent Debtors' let. The Petitioners, he moil, complained of tie Lordships to which tory were exposed under the eitisting Act. They dill not, however, desire s Iota! repeal of it, but merely that the House should adopt such mea sures as might stein to it fitting to reinedy Ilw de ficit. He coincided enti►ely in otiiuion with them, for lie thought that without some such Act, the ',Ailing part of the community would be dreadfully iopired iiiderd. Mr. BROUGHAM wished to take that opportunity of eisreectiog a miste.te of an Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham), last night, conveying a reflection on Mr. Clarkson, the Clerk of the insolvent Debtors' Court. He, indeed, had not understood him to say, that Mr. Clarkson was the provisional assigore of the Court (though it had been so represented), but merely to say that there was a provisional as. VIWIEV, and that no dividend was received by the cre ditors. The Attorney-General afterwards had stated that a provisional as had been appointed, a Mr. Chtrce, but that the office was metely a wnt nal one, ari.iisg from the necessity of haviiig some person to take care of the insolvents' effects, before they were conveyed to • the assignees appointed by the err slitors. It was very desirable there should be some 'lmmo of that description—the only pro perty mimosa] to hint was what tittblig effects 'night be in the hands of the insolvent at the time of the iiisolvelicy, the money ier his pocket, and su forth. But neither Mr. Clarkson nor his soar dill act or could act in that capacity. Fifteen tl - amid pounds had been already received by that per-on, which was not by any means the whole amount of the proceeds of insolvents' grope ty.— Besides that, sty thousand pounds had al ready been conveyed to the regular assignees, those assigner, chosen by the creditors themselves, viol was vested in their hands , . Besides, that was nut nearly the whole ot the proceeds hitherto, because the whole could out vat be got io; large estates, aosouittiog perllllo iii value to filly or sixty timo rus(' pounds, mounting Still sealed, frgatt Ihe ficulty of thaws:nig slid tonsil% them into cash; so that ►f Ile should state the whole pr,cerds at dote or four times the lamer sum he ►hould not pro probably overrate it. A secured sic* he had then no f.%lllig was to correct the mistatement, that fifteen thousand pounds had hewn the only psoperly yet recovered. As to the dispusitiosi of the pro perly, it was the fault of the coeditors theurskl%es if it were nut well administered ; because it had beret already seated, that the effects i 111111111111111 l passed from the receiver into the hoods or insig,- ores ; the eitisuintinent was left to thruiselt es. Of the fifteen thousand p 11 1 l ri ds paid to the provi s io na l reoagisee, Dlr. Cherce, he had paid over mite thous. swat, mod six remained in his baud*. He thought tibia explanation was due to the character of the officers , fit thy Comb—/Hear.) Sir J. t;aAnAlt had not meant to name soy particular person as the provisional as.igiite, hut lie had stated, a hal he uutlt•rsfuod from the Petitioneia, that the creditors were unable to procure vii wow mesa of the insolvents' effects to pewit's of their I,‘Vis choosing, hut that they were vested georrally taw the clerks 4,r the Court. But he hoped a foil wild ample investigation would soon she made, by which it would be discovered if oily abuse. pre vailed in the arliniiiistratiuti of that law. It was his belief there did. Mr. ASsittsusitiX ventured with the utmost env firlreire•to say. that if the instiller so which properly was dilated of under the Act in question, were compared with the disposition of the property of nookrupts, the result would be greatly its favour of the toriner, both with reference to cheapness sad pspi ehifoo. fie was wily istoni•lied that the Act 10,01 out diminished the number of biuktuptcies.— iiidefif that effect at first, but when it was iii-covered dist it gave no wearily in the insolvent vraprrts 141 be acquired to future, people re luineel the bankruptcy system. All a most sio rrrr and killous friend of the measure, lie would 1...7 it'd its existencc tin the comparison. 1111)Kvr hioreord to be as well sequinned ...I'll the efbcts of tier Act us soy (ientletuais in 11011*r. having alsrmird every tottiog hrfel un der it in the county col Sussex (we believe us Chair- Man.) An sMenslment had been some lime since imule iii the Act. empowering the Chairman to re mand the insolvent me proof of fraud. There had been bpi our instance in Sussex of a remand under that provision.—lifeoe, hear.)—The entire 1111111. ber of oppositions by the creditor had heel' tir:llY right; aria of these but three prevented the h le charge of the insolvent.—(lieur.)—Such were the consequences of the law in the Court with which he was acquainted, and lie thought it his briiimlen duty to state them to the House. He deprecated the raising • general discussion on every Petition, tending, as it did, to prejudge the question, and excite a prejudice against the law, as well as lite unfortunate creditor. Sir 3. SVORIGHT said Mimi a Petition to present ' from the Gomel Jury or Hertfordshire, adopted at the last Assizes, complaining of the duties impoted upon fuel, mud praying relief. 'They did no presume to point out to the House the natureure ' of the remedy to be applied, but left it ti its wisdom to adopt such measures as might seem amt.—Read and laid on the table. ROYAL BURGHS. Mr. Huns ',emoted a Petition from the Guildry and Inhabitants of Brechin, praying fora reforma tion in the municipal g over,airtit of the Royal Burghs of Scotland. The I loi.oursble Member stated, that he beliered it expressed the feelings of the whole of the inhabitants—that they had no came of complaint against their present Magistrates, but against the system generally. Rend and laid on the table. A Petition was presented from Shrewsbury against the renewal of the Insolvent Debtor.' Act. Mr. BROUGHAM said, drat the Petition was sighed by very few persons, and was far different in its tone from the modest and rational one which had a little before been lead (from Hertford shire). It left nothing :o the wisdom of Pao moot, but demanded an absolute repeal, without any modification. Ile could not help regretting that the few Petitioners had not looked better into so important a subject, before expressing so decided an opinion on it. • Mr. Befoul-r said, that the Petition had been signed by only the members of some trades. Read and laid on the table. POOR LAWS. Mr. Mews,' preserved a Petition from the pa rish of St. Gales-in-the-Fields, praying an *herr , nen iii the Poor Laws, so far as regarded the bind ; ing out of boys thrown on the parish.—Read and laid ou the table. REGULATION OF MAD-HOUSES. Mr. Wonsi rose to call the atteution of the House to a subject which had already been more than ones under the consideration of Parliament. He meant the regulation of mad-houses. Four times had the House sanctioned the measure which lie now niewist to submit. Several years had now 'elapsed since the disclosure of miseries took place, 'which had arisen from the want of proper attention on the part of the Legislature to the state of mad houses in ge lona throughout the kingdom. The reports of the sufferings and miseries to which, he alluded, could have hardly failed to impress nismi the Legislature the necessity of some ebonite with a view to tittle redress. Fur the want of • lower corrective being administered before now, this House hail not to answer ; for they had re peatedly framed Bills, which, from objections else where, had ',ever passed into a law. In no one in stance had objections been started against t he remedy which these Bills were to have administered—in sun one instance had the existence of the grievance fur which the remedy was intended, been controverted or &stied. When such monstrous abuses were dis covered, it was the duty of Parliament to apply a tensely, and to persist to the recommendation and adoption of such measures as they judged appli caisle to the case. He did not mean to say that all the abuses originally disclosed were now in existence; Ile believed exposure had led to the redress of many of them, but still he believed enough had continued to justify the interposition of the Legis lature. The licensing of their., houses was not yet complete. It was a fact that one particular house, in which VII unfortunate accident had happened, was not licensed as regularly required in the register of the College of Physicians. Ile dial not mean to propose oily material alteration in the last Bill, V Well hail received the sanction of this House. lie would propose the oppointssient of a Board of Inspectors, which ors to be subdivided by a regulation mown;; themselves, fur the purpose of visiting mid inspecting all the mad-houses throughout the countoy at rtiKrent mid uncertain penults, in outer to laetrile a recorrence of the abus e s ohich have been hitherto kite's's, to prevail. Ile also meant to told a pettedly for the reception of ic.y lunatic yyithi.ut • regular certificate from a physician of his disease, mid also a registry of the teat mime of the lunatic, and the name and rela tionship of the party cointuitting hint. A smother of abuses had been committed try persons commit- I the lunatic under a false statue, viol thereby sbutiiitg out any certain clue to the discovery of his situation. He was ready, in the progress of the MV11111)11., to give up any part of the detail which did nut trench on the principle of the Bill. He would, fur instance, consent to leave out the Bawd of Inspectors in each comity, which, was to be ap pointed by the Quarter Sessions. With respect to the provision of the further Bill, which proposed that even in cases where the care of • single lunatic *as confined to a particular custody, the name of the lunatic should be registered in a private book, 10 be k. pt for that purpose in the Secretary of titan's °See, referable to only by permission, and on the skewing of a very special stecessity, he was aware that many objectionv had bees' started. It was said to be a wanton iisterfereuce in, cud disclosure of, domestic misfortune. lie could not concur in this objection, for he knew that by the existing law, to oily case, the state of the individual may be publicly discussed by ap plication to the Lord Chaiwellor, as guardian of all lunatics, on a writ of Habeas Corpus. But let at be recollected, that as the law now stood, such hineticstray be confided to private core without any certificate from a physician, or without any of those precautionary steps which would prevent the repetition of gross abuse. Even in one of the best houses in England (he meant Mr. Bakewell's, of Siaffewrlshire), many new arratigenwids were found necessary to guard against the occurrence of any otiose. Ile could out consent In give Up the try - at the Secretary of State's Office in such cases as 1 / 4 -4-s he alluded to, end of course to be parch-11 nitl, the greatest pos►ible delicacy, and only laid open to ass stiqulrer in any particular iiistaiice where special urces►ity were mode out. Ile concluded by moving for leave to bring in • Bill to repeal the Acts of the I4th and 55th of the King, relating to Mad-Reuses, end for making other provisions and regulations in lieu the►eof. Leave was given, and a Committee appointed to bring it in. SILVER COINAGE. Mr. J. MARTIN wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, whether any arrangement was iii progress for the purpose of keeping up the tircu. lat 1111 l of silver coinage for the public ? Mr. IV ELLESLEY l'oLs repl►ed, that he had the satisfaction to inform the Hon. (Gentleman that an arrangement had been made between the Mint end the Bank, by which the latter was to he furnished with 30,0001., probably 35,0001. of silver every week, or more if necessary, to suit the exigencies of the public. The Governor of the Bank thought this sum would he sufficient, but if a greater were necessary there would be no objection to furnish it. Mr. J. MARTIN—" Whed Is the arrangement to take effect ?" Mr. IVELLIMET POLE — " It will take place either at the end of tine or at the beginning of the nest week." EXCHEQUER BALANCES. Mr. ImsusnuTots moved the second reading of the Marine Mutiny Bill. Mr. GRENFELL—" I wish to avail myself of this oppertunity to ask the Hon. Gentleman opposite a question, respecting the Bill which the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Attorney-General were the other night ordered to prepare and bring in; and I much regret that the Right I-lon. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) is not present, to answer the question which I am about to put, in his absence, to the Hon. Gentleman opposite. I desire to take this early opportunity of stating, that the greatest delusion has prevailed respecting the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement ou the subject of the Exchequer Balances"-- Mr. BARING rose io under, and submitted, that as there was no question before the House to justify the course which his Hon. Friend was about to take, it was not regular for him to enter into a con troversy respecting the Government and the Bank, and particularly on an occasion like the present, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer was absent. —(Hear.) Mr. GRIINTELL disclaimed wanting to provoke any controversy respecting the affairs of the Batik ou the present occasion—he merely meant to cor rect an error, and he thought himself in order, as there was a question before the House.—(" Chair! Chair !") The SPEAEER—" No doubt there is a question before the House on which it is orderly to speak, but it is only orderly to speak to that particular q uesi i mi.(Meer.) Mr. GRENFEI.I. then sat down; but on the next question, which was the postponement of the Com mittee of Supply, he rose and said—" I inertly wish to state, that I am sure every person who heard the Chancellor of the Exchequer the other night, or who read his statements through the medium in which they are conveyed to the pub lic, must have conceived that there would he an available amount to the public of six millions of public balances now in the hands of the Nalik. I appeal to the House, whether, this was not the plain meaning of the statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the id Febru ary, on Friday, and on Monday last ; whether in point of fact, we did not all understand that six mil. hoes of public balances, in the hands of the Bank, were not to be made available for the public ser vices ? That was, I confess. my impression of what the Right Hon. Gentleman said, and I flattered myself that, in the event of his realizing what he promised, I should never have had to say one word more relating to a subject upon which I have so often troubled the House. I call on all olio hear me to say whether I am right or not iii my inter. pretation of the Right Hon. Gentleman's words.— ( Heor hear.).-1 now state in reply to them, and I state it on any credit I can venture to lay claim to upon this subject, that so far from six millions being made available to the public by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's intended plan, I say there is no probability of producing more than three mil lions. I state that this will be the whole saving out of the one head of account to which the Right Honourable Gentleman's Bill will apply. It is singular that it is to apply only to one head of ac count out of the 56 heads of balances, and not less whimsical that the particular head is nut described es a balance at all in the accounts laid on the table, hut as • a deposit of E.xchequer bills in the hands of the Bunk.' I have been for the last four years endeavouring to call the atteinimi of Government to the necessity of rendering the public balances available, and I now find that I ara at the seine distance as 1 was et the beginning from accomplish. ing my object. I shall move so-morrow for the pro. duction of certain papers and calculations fur the purpose of elucidating this subject, amid when the Right Honourable Gentleman's Bill is brought in, I shall state my sentiments more at large upou the question."—( !tear, hear.) Mr. lusitisintore complained of the want of courtesy in the course pursued by the Hon. Gen• tlemen, in the absence of his Right Hon. Friend. All he should at present say was, that there was no delusion whatever in the statement or plan of his Right Hon. Friend. He had stated that his plan would render available viz millions of public balances--3,2.00,0001. or 3,900,0001. to be applied to meet the arrears on the Consolidated Fund, and the residue of 2,700,000/. to go in part liquidation of the 3,000,000/. Bank loan. Mr. TIERNLY said that the proposed effect of this arrangement was denied by his Hon. Friend, end he himself believed, that instead of 6,000,000/. being made available, the amount would sloe ex ceed three or four millions. _ _ Mr. LusniNGTon said, that be was confident his Hight Hon. Fiiend would verify the statement he bad already made to the House ; for his own part lie placed the utmost reliance upuii it. Mr. MASERLY said, that, as he understood, this available 6,000,000/. was to be applied as follows : —3,.400,0001. or 3,300,0001. to go to the arrears on the Consolidated Fund ; and g,700,000/. to the liquidation in part of the 3,000,0001. Bank loan. which as given without interest, so long u the Bank load the advantage of thee balance*. Still there would remain an arrear of 300,0001. to he made up out of the Ways and Means to clear off the loan. Mr. Husk MON said, that when the balances were withdrawn from the Bank, the loan must be !raid. If not out of this dv ,ilahir rum% it elitist mat of the Way* nod 3leaok. The ettret would Ire the same In citirer care. Ile complained of the departure from the us u al coolies). which hod 'men marafrried in the mode of introducing this conver smion, and also of the harsh tern.. 1111,1 1 1..11 to the conduct of his Right Hon. Frieral. T , l charge him with practisiog delusion was to do him great injustice. Mr. GRENPELL disclaimed imputing to the Right H o u. Gentleman any iiitriitional delusion. He merely meant to Dimly the term as referable to the effect of the Right Hun. Gentleman's state meld. lf, in the result, it should appear that millions would be mode available, he (Mr. Gren. fell) should be perfectly satisfied, and acknow ledge his error. Mr. LusuiNGTOP had not the least doubt that were his Right Hon. Friend present. he would satisfactorily prove the correctness of his original statement. Mr. MeLt.tsif complained of the want of cour tesy in introducing the subject in the absence of the person chiefly competent to give the necessary explanation. Mr. BEN NETT said there *Bs a great distinction to be taken between the two individuals. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was bound by his official situation to attend in his place. but his lion. Friend may or may not attend his duty here as he pleased.—( /fear.) Mr. VESET FITZGERALD thought it unfair that, in the absence of as constant, sedulous, and patient au attendant as any Hon. Member of that House, an opportunity should be taken of introducing this topic. Considerable mischief might arise from the Publicity which would be in this manner given to ex-parte statements. He certainly understood his Right Hon. Friend to have meant to make availa ble the current balances during the quarter, which he had no power of doing as the law now stood. The conversation then dropped, and Mr. (NEN FELL withdrew. The Committee of Supply was postponed until Friday. Shortly after Mr. LUSIIINGTON brought in the Bill for rendering available the Exchequer ba lances. He took the opportunity of explaining, that the object of the Bill was to render the grow. ing produce of the public balances during the guar.. ters available, instead of letting them accrue on the Consolidated Fund. In the present quarter 6,000,0001. would not certainly be available, be cause there were 3.300,000/. to meet the a on the Consolidated Fund, and i,700,000/. to repay the Bank loan. In future the growing produce of the balances will be made available according to the exigency of the public services. CONVICTS UNDER SENTENCE OF MATH. Mr. BENNETT wished to know when any proba ble report would be made relative to the cases o f the persons under sentence of death? There were now fifty-four such persons in Nergate—they were confined in fifteen cells, three in each, and the re mainder stowed where they could. It was most desirable that es little delay at possible should take place in the decision upon the cases of these unfor tunate persons. Mr. CLIVE replied, that the Itecordei's report was not yet made out. It took up some time to arrange it. He was satisfied that as little delay as possible would be suffered to elapse on this °cc*. *ion. saA N DEFAULTERS ON THE BALLOT. The names of the defaulters on yesterday's ballot were called over, and they were ordered to attend the ballot ou Tuesday next. The Alien and Denizen Bill wu Cecil the third time, and passed. l'he Annual Indemuity Bill was committed.— Report to-morrow. Sir ISAAC COFFIN expressed an earnest desire that the form of proceeding observed on Naval Courts Martial should be adopted by Military Courts. In the former, the sentence was pronounc ed in open Court. In the latter, it was trausinitted to the Commander-in-Chief, fur approbation and revison, and there were instances where they were returned to the Court, as not being severe enough. lie would as soon place his life et the di•g:osal of the present Commander-its-Chief, as he would at that of any man alive; but he thought it a great hardship that the at:cured should be kept in sus pense for so long • period es sometimes elapsed between the trial and publication of the sentence. lie knew instances in America where six mouths lied intervened. lie thought it a liard.hip which ought to he removed. It was neither founded iti justice or reason, or consonant to the law of the oilier Courts of the country. On the third reading of the Mutiny Bill, he meant to press upon the Ilou►e the necessity of assimilating the practice of 111.tary to that of Naval Courts Martial. Lind PALMERSTON said. that when the i iroper time arrived, he would ►tate, he trusted, sati►fac torV reasons fur the existence of the present prac tice in Military Courts Martial. The House then adjourned. THE 'p • 11 ISIJPPFSS • LONDON, THURSDAY, rthacu 11, IMI9. A very important communication was made la‘t evening iu the House of Commons, by Mr. Ws.i.• LEILEY PoLa t respecting the future supply of the silver curreuu•y. By a recent arrangement, the Hank of England will receive from thirty to thirty tive thousands pounds' wet tli of silver courage. very week, which it has been Cillctil,:ted will be found sufficient for the general purposes of the retail trade of the country. This arrangement, a huh is in tended to continence next week, will hr productive of very great convenience, or, to !Mice the matter in a more correct point of view, will remove the very serious inconvenience which hes for tome time brim felt, if not in London, at least in every other part of the kingdom, fruni the great deficiency iii the silver currency. The Bill far enabling the Treasury to render the Exchequer balances available to the public of the country, was last evening brought in and rent a first time. A conversation previously took plate on this subject, in which Mr. GitENVELL, to alio,* perseverance and eueigy must in justice lie stiri. buted whatever is valuable in this mra•Ure, ex. pressed his apprehensions that the arrangemeot woo proposed by the CHANCELLOR of the EICHIO L ER was extended to the balances of only one of the various heads of account charged on the Con solidated Fund, and that the sum that might thence be drawn could not exceed four millions. He thence deduced that the CHANCILLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in holding out au expectation of having six millions available to the general service, • bad only deceived the public by a promise he hail no intention of realizing. The CHANCELLOR of the Exciter:eat was nut present to explain his measure, ■tid his place was very ill supplied by Mr. LUSHINUTON, who seems nut to have been let into the secret. Even in this stage of this business, we cannot avoid remarking, that the statement made on Monday night by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, appeared a fair and distinct expori. tiou of his imentions, both with regard to the extent to which the balances should be drawn by the Treasury, and the mode in which they should in the first instance be applied. Ile clearly intimated that six niillions would by this measure he obtained, and that of these six millions, 3,309,41001. should be applied to cover the arrears due on the Cons°. lidated Fund, and :0_,700,0u0/. be handed over to the Kink, in part payment of a sum of three mil. lions which that body had lent to Government, with out interest, in compensatiou to the public fur the use of there Exchequer balances, and which, in par. unlace of the original agreement, became !mythic whenever the right of using these balances should be withdrawn. IVe vouch for the general accuracy of this report, and if the CHANCELLOR of the Ex. CIiFIUEIL shall so far swerve from the line thercia defined as to withhold any part of the Exchequer balances, so that the sum rendered available to the public service be less than six millions, we shall have no hesitation in representmg his statement as 4 dr. liberate act of delusion. But why should any limitation be ilaced to the power of the Treasuiy, iu rendering the ESChe quer balances available to the public services ? These balances vary considerably within the several quarter., and as it is very possible thlt the emount may in one quarter be less than the sum content.. plated by this Bill, the public, to compensate for this loss, ought, in the event of a more prosperous quarter, be suffered to enjoy the countervailing advantage of a larger sum. In fact, the public should possess the full benefit that ini 6 lit by any possibility arise from the principle of this measure . - No evil could result from it, as may be *hewn by the uniform practice in Ireland. How the six millions now obtained ought to be disposed, is a fair question fir Parliament to con sider; but in our view of the subject, this money could not be disposed of in a better or mere pro fitable manner, than has been suggested by VANSITTART, milers indeed the Bank could La induced not to require payment for another year of the three millions, which on the paw ing of this Bill of right becomes payable. In our present financial embarrassments, an at rangement to tins effect would be a serious ad vantage to the country. The arrears of the. Consolidated Fund must be paid, and it mat ters not whether provia:on be made for them in the Ways and Means of the year, and be op posed on the credit side of the account by 3,300,0001. drawn from the Exchequer behove., or be paid at once by this sum. The only dtHrr euce would be • diminution in the sums total ; hut as this diminution would lie equal on both side. of the account, the result, of course, could nut be directed by it. Yesterday R Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Caplan' G. Tots,' vr was sworn into the command of the situp eipuils. consigned to China turret. The report of the two new frigates which hid :tr. rived front the United States at Buell/is Ayres, hiv ing gone round Cape Horn to join Lord CuciißA 1.. • 4 fleet, is incorrect. We Itave seen a letter from tit, Chili Deputy at Buenos Ayres to hi. Correspondent in London. dated the tith December, iii ‘Oncit !-tt distinctly says that these two frigates still remain in Buenos Ayres.—(Erening Paper.) • The Report of the.Cominissioners for the I terrinz Fishery, of their procreillog. I,ir the year the sth April, 1810, has been iiiinted by order of the House of Commons. It conch tides with statii..,!, the Commissioners think it is apparent that I, r character of tht British Fishery is rising both at home and abroad, for %slide the quinitity 01 herrio.:4 clued gutted is multi:illy Mete:hing e the quantity cured tingotted is every year diminishing, and that the deinmil hes kept pace with the iitiaittity thee gut. They have also to mention that w 1.11,: t h e export :two to the Cootititut or Enropel.",..-aay eiptalled tl.at of the preceding !ear, and the eitpintation to Ireland and the West liii.i.•• line socreaseil, a new mat ket Inn; opt-terd Ei4 Indies, to which different sitipirteiti, tit le.r. rings have been made kith trim 'lock and London; from the former wed' but the result of the litter is net yet kuouti, trust that India svOl !nom become it itertnatn-iit sud valuable market for the consuiniaiou of II: ics'a herriegs. The v im I Ohl r i The bun ft other 4 eun-st , The A ileie Eal pit, ty ils Nl' Th , eveui Th Glou Le ed to •t th rive Cif hid In lii In d,