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• • ture of the country. But bow Was this object to be s tr a i ne d ? if, as lie feared would be the cow. the new taxes should prove only not altogether unpro. ductive. what would there remain but to retrench the public expenditure in every 'possible manner in which it could he done consistently with the into.. rests of the country ?—(Hear, hear.)—He begged Irate to state his own opinion. that the country might have been retained in a state of tranquillity without ally increase having taken place in the amount of our numerical force; and in order to proms 1111% it would be almost sufficient for kith to oloierie, that in Scotland. where the discontented were n. pniportissos to the population of the country 1.11 ou., more deteetained. and heifer or. !If owed than they were io Esiglan4l, met it we. not i a :ivy time since the commencenipat of the late sliscoutents thought requisite ‘ to keep up a larger force ;n that country than li,ooo men.—( Hear, bras.) —Perhaps the reason why this cosn paratirely small fusee had been found sufficient• to answer every useful purpose in Scotland might have been, that the inhabitants of %Aland hail enrolled themselves into yeomanry and volunteer corps. In Scotland, the yeomanry mounted to neatly 3,700 men ; whereas. in 'Lancashire they dui not exceed the number of 534, although the Geo. Heinen of that county hAd been the most forward in culling for au increase to the numerical force of our military establishments. If any necessity did really exist for increased military protection in that county, why. he would ask, did not the inhabitants form themselves into volunteer corps, as inScoilatid Li Scotland there were DO less than 4,000 volunteests, while in Lancashire there was not a single volunteer. What occasion, he would sok. was there fot cavalry ist Kent, and along the southern coast generally, where the slightest disaffection had not been 'hewn Independent of objections to the extraordinary slumber of cavalry regiments now kept up, he could venture to say that a reduction might be made each regiment of at least forty-six dismounted eavalsy, two Captains, two Lieutenants, tool two Cornets, and that the second Major at in every instaiice where there was a second Major should be done away with. The I luu.e would he pleased to observe, that in the great saving which would in consequence •rise to the country, he did not propose the rethic initt of a single horst. He assured the House, that in suggesting the proposed reductions, lie was dithig a thing very unpleasant to himself * as he proposed to do that which might seem to he directs d against his own profession, and against the interests of many worthy and gallant officers, fsiends of his own but he felt that there were considerations which in the circumstances of the country. should be held superior to private and personal feeling.. —From the reductions which he had now proposed. there would arise a saving of 80,0001. a year to the country. The next department which he should notice, as admitting of retrenchment, was the wag. Iron train. For his part. he could not set what rankly pissioble use there could he imagined in having a waggon train attached to regiments of ca valry, which did trot march aboie once a year; still less could there be soy occasion for a waggon train firing attached to regiments of cavalry, which being quartered in London never left town. Dv making a election of these waggon trains. which were ertirely useless, at least 10,0001. would be saved to the country. He would next beg leave to direct lime attention of the House to the retrench. menus which he thought might with advantage be made in our infantry force, and here he would propose a plan of reduction similar to that which lie had recommended to be applied to the cavalry; be thought that the second Majors should be re /laced, and that regiments consistosig of ten comps ono!it to he limited to eight. The Ho mumble Member then alluded to the unneces. sarily great extent of the garrison at Ports mouth, a n d to the expenditure occasioned by the' keeping up of a large body or sappers and engi neers, fur .:hem he could not suppose that there was any possible use at presitit. though he admitted that io she field they had heel' eminently service. fly the proposed reductions, he said that there would be a saving of 170,0001. to the et - try, without rendering the army less efficient. Ile next directed the attention of the House to the re cruiting departments, in which a saving of 14.0001. at present, and eventually a saving of 20,000/. might easily be made. Ily the present mode of feet g. the momenta recriliting party leaves a regiment, it becomes entirely independent of it ; wheresi brfoie the year 1798, there was no such thing as a iepa rate establishment for that purpose. In page 13 of the Army Estimates rot the present year. he saw the sum of 1,450/. for the expense of a ruing esta blishment at This establishment, he was aware, had been originally instituted to teach cer tain the lance exercise. but he could not see what necessity! there could possibly be for continuing it at present. lie would now come to a consideration I.f the Getters' Staff. Ile cobld not think whato4*. casion there was for a District Quarterrnaster-Ge 'tend in Ireland ; nor was there any necessity for a Lieulenasit-Gtmeral in that 'votary. Although the expenditure in the Adjutant-General's Depart ment bad been somewhat diminished viiser last year. vet there still remained in Ireland twice as many Adjutant-Generals as there were iii England; and he thought that their number ought to be brought at least upon a level with that in England. The Hilo. Member then entered into a very minute examination of the Gener,d Staff in the Leeward Islands and foreign stations, especially la the island of henries, at Gibraltar, and at Tobago, where there is a geheral officer, although there are but two cotriplinel. He did nut, he otoperved, see why ;he Quarterthattets-Geoeial hot be re. h. d i „ d io those places, Whete there are oilier officers t,,,,, . r its their place. 11y that means there would i: e a f , xhictii.ii of 9,0001. a•year. With regard to the it ce hill by the Right Honourable Gen. t i tmois opposite (the Hon. C. Long) he must say th a t lie did s ot thin* it of the slightest benefit to the country.---(Hcarr and a laugh.)-zHoo. Gen tlemen might, if they pleased, laughs at any inac. curacy into which he might have fallen in the detail which be had entered into; and would nu doubt take an opportunity to correct it ; but how. lie would ask, was it possible to tome ut the truths witless Ite entered into the details of each item se parately /—What he would maiumin was; that the Secretary at War might direct his warrante mare dist, ly s and not through the medium of the ray. °salter. 'Flit Hun. Member then said, that ne bad t 1". , . .• net any disporition to coum • reductio n in joy it e m wnich dill not molly require it. For instmice, he oft. served, that the widow of a General Officer receives *oily 1201. elver, which he thought was but • small• allowance, and not more than what is allowed to the widow or a demise& accost/item. In 1896 I the whole number of clerks in the War Office I was 1 V. whole aviaries cost the country under 30,0001, a year. In 1819 they were increased ) frosts 1.12 to 147. and their salaries from thirty to newly forty-eight thorisand • year.—(Hear.)—Yet: in 1806, one would have supposed that the quantity of business to be performed was much greater - than now. At that time ire were engaged in ail 'obeli time wet, which wag carrying on is every •iirt of i the globe. From the returns on the table, it wis clear that there were a number 'esf emigrant exe. receiving salories of differeot amounts tip to 2,501. a year. scone of which Might he thought he dispensed with. The Honourable Member then argued at some length the propriety of simpli fying the sonde in the which the soldiers were payed. He also expressed his opinion that the Commis. riot Departriient alas in a great degree umsetcessary. He thought it should be left to Commanding Officers themowlveg to mike the contracts for the purchase ii provigiontr end forage for their trove; surety they were persoos of Tat resiwciability that that duty might be fairly le r to them—at least the con tracts should be submitted to them before being concluded. This was but a suggestioii; but if he were not greatly mistaken savings might be made on that heed a n d in toe. Commissariat Deparitnent of Ireland. to the extent of above 20,0004 a year. He their entered into an examittation of lime expenses of the office of accounts in armor, end after quoting the opinion of the Committee of Fivauce of 1796, remarked, that when they took into account the chances of death, insolvency, and the variety of other contingencies to which persons its offices were subject. the question was, whether they were hot paying more roi them twenty times than ever they crusted to he repaid to , the• public. It appeared to him that a great saving Might he effected by consolidating some of theta. It wee pall 1114, all these things required much ex antinat:itn. but Hilinitting that, all he asked was so refer sheds to ■ Committee, rod what istjory or in convenience ci•uld result from it ?--(Hear.)-- The advance in the charges of the Quartermaster Gester.lN-d.partmeist from the year 1797, was per fectly orange. By the nineteenth Hewitt of the Committee or Finance it appeared that jutted year. when the war was raging at it. height. the army extraordistaries were near sift millions, and at the mine time there were two Comptrollers of Accounts, ,sail 11 troistants. The Comptrollers acted as auditors oh meounti also, and received additional salaries, which was a proof that their labours as Comptrol km were not very overwhel • g !then they did not incapacitate them from attending to other °Tees. lit 1819 the army extraordinaries were little more than a 'Milton. but the establishment consisted of three Comptrollers , . one at a salary of two thou. sand a sear, and two others at salaries of fifteen hundred • year each—(Heat)—and in addition to these twenty-seven clerk., whose joint salaries coat the country eight thousand pounds a year more than their offices did in 1797.—(Hear.)-- With ret,tard td the military college, it was capable of undergoing further reductioni. He allowed, however, that it might he made • very useful ests. blishment. He knew that from the want of such an institution its former time', we were frequently obliged to have recourse to foreign ofileers to corn. Woe our service, not having the command of sa tire ones. properly qualified by education for cer. tats provinces. But lie believed that •the young mess educated at that place were usually granted commissions at the age of sixteen or seventeen ; now lie asked. whether it was not likely that going into the army at much years, they would in a few years tumuli he knowledge they had before acquired? Alter all it was only a school for a parcel of boys. end he really could see no necessity for the eaten sive emir nianstained there. At present there were 290 lola there, divided into four companies; now lie thought that if the number was brought down to 290, that would constitute more cadets than the country required. By reducing two Captains, a ihing he believed practicable, a saving might be made of 5001. a-year. He hid no doubt also of the practicability of diminishing the number of Prolessots. The Ciontnissioners of Military In quiry had remarked on the lightness of their duties; and he could state himself, from experi ence; having received his education at the school, that sonic of the Professors had to attend only two hOurs a day. These details might be minute ; but the House should beer in mind, that by memos of petty details great savings could be brought about. If ins pretweit suggestion should be carried into ef fect, the gross result would be a saving of 400.000/. a year. lie then cited an Act of Parliameut, passed in the year 1910, providing that where any of ficer, under sixty years of age; retired, it should not he lawful fur Ilion to receive any nensiore, superannuation allowance, icc. *nautili a certilicine from hi* sisperior, meting hint to be income ble of coo ll i 111 l ing in the service in consequeuce of age or infirmity, and that he had served ten years ; but 111111 011 the obtainiug of ;belt a certili. rate. be should he '181641 to an alloviasice not ex. cee4ing out-third of hi. former misty. The etnolu wrists enjoyed by the Under-Secretary at War (as we untlesstortil) weir thtectly in the teeth dads Am. lit the lion place I.e had hot served ten yrara ; and in the twit place Ids allowance was greater than olse third of Ins bottler salary. Ile never heard the name of that isidividnal mentioned without feelings of inspect, on conrequenci of the veneration use felt for a deceased relative of his; but the discharge of a pultliC duty was paramount to any private coneiderations. That officer :cos stow in the receipt of ass income f the public of 1.800/. a year, I,iloo/. of which had beets granted in return for only six years' overview. Wire he to go through the different offices, he could easily produce a Dumber of similar infraction* of the law. The 110 h. Member then contrasted the hberality of these alloo.i ances with list pour pittance made to General Offi cers, who had shed their blond in many a chine, and spent the hest part of their fife in the defence of their country.—(llear.)—As army medical officer. tabu had inured allowance, mo r e over, wee out , enjoying a *Aar, of gOOl. a year. Is physician to the feces. How could such a person be called super. iisismated. when actually filling ass important Aut: thin ? Manisa stineraminvied medical cfficer era at the same time physician to C else t Hospital.— lei the. Barrack Deportment ite Nand that one individsel, who hail served hot nine years. was re tired on en allowance of 11901. • year. Another p e rs on ( I A • r e tired allowance of 5001. • year for having been employed only As parr in inuir. ions into the accounts of a great defaulter. Did not three appear to he abuses They might not he so—hut was it. not due to the country to inert. tigate sillether they ••etettr hot ? Whrh clerks. who never perdtape sal their foot not of the y s had their services remunerated so amply, by means perhaps of • !secret influence very well understood— /Intl-Albers, possessing the strotigevt claims on the rountry, were left almost in • state of bum inquiry_ wai.insperiessaly called for. There re. grai ne d th e B. l 4ark Urpartmesit, and here hr found a long list of barrack's , in the 'half of there were sib; iroops ; how was the keeping up or these eleceisary? The ofteratiolis bind repairs of these buildings cost 58,00 a a year. He thought it would he a wiser ohm to pull down ihose 1161 used, end sill their materiels. Itwis quite absurd wh a t • s wath e , o f Isarraisk.oristers were kept up , where one would be sufficient; there was a barrack. master at Hyde Palk, another at Knightsbridge, another at the Tower, irid2isnother of the *swot. But it vials in vain to siilak to Ministers of any abase ; never would they give op a particle of their paroling, as long as they could gtiop it. The disposition manifested by them on the import ant question broisght before the House the slight befor e (on the appointment of a fifth Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland), that there .was not the elightest hope to be entertained of "retrenchment its any quarter or department, unless the House took the matter into their own hando.—(Hear, hear, hear.)--All be • thin dratted was in quiry. If leis Majesty'S ft inters were really sincere in their frequent profeiaions of economy. when he or any other Member fell into en involuntary esror. they woold not laugh at hUt assist hiin ; they would my, We know these things better than you. we will endeavour to set you right. and to direct your inquiries, sad those of the Hquse: but they aimed at misleading, and throwing dust into the eyba of the House mid the country. He then moved that a Select Committee be appointed' to inqiiire into the, military expeuditure of the country, and report their observations thereon to the House. The quo-mime having been pot— Mr. C. LOWb 'Awned. that the lion. Member had asserted that the department of the Paymasters General was useless and unnecessary. and that that ..Nicer was no public accountant; but on the cons trary he was the greatest pobl.c accountant existing. Colonel DAVIES observed, he had never said any such thing as that he was out an accouutat.t.— (Cries of " Order!'') Mr. Loxo proceeded. The duty of the ray. master-General was to see that all the sums issued for the payment of the troops were issued under the parliamentary regulation, and applied to their proper destination, and that all the accounts of the senate were properly made upend transmitted to the A editor's Office. Hisoffice was attended with agreat deal of labour and a great deal of correspondence. The accountsof the regiments were forwarded to him in the feet instance, by the Paymaster, and by him transmitted, after being examined, to the Auditor; so that lie had a very material control over the public 'crowds. The Mon. Member stated justly, that there had been an increase iu that eetaldiatimerit since the year 1796. But when he had come to the office no account had been passed there from the time of Mr. Burke; they had been all passed since, with the exception of last year's; which ad. ditional labour required additional assistance. But if the of f ice were looked into, and compared with others, it would be found that in none had such reduction. taro place since the conclusion of the war. During the time he had been c acted with the office, three clerks only had received super• lomiustitm allowances, and not one of them had been granted so much as was permitted by the Act. Colonel DAVIES and Mi.. Load mutually ex planned. Lord PALMERSTON said , he bad t o observe, in the first place, that the Haute would be respited from entering ou the coosideration of the Army Estimates till Friday next. The Noble Lord then proceeded to defend the conduct of the Finance Committee fur the list five years, and to argue that the increase of military force for the present year, which involved of course ass augmented expi-udi. titre, had been called fur by well.known events and the eircumwasices of the country. Judging front former calculation, of the Hon. MeMber, the result of his idiot*, even if followed up, wound produce no such saving as 400.001. a-year. But the question was nut whether they worild produce this ur that saving; but whether they could be adopted without impairing the efficacy of the army.—(Hear.)—lt was unfair to impute any wont of seal or apathy to the people of England, as had been done, in pro tecting their own propertiei, and guarding the public peace. The Noble Lord then mounted and answered the various charges made by Colonel Davies on the system pursued in the different brunches of the army department. The Oismousiti , tg some of the cavalry was a taeasute of economy adopted by the Government. The stationing troops at Hounslow Heath was • precautionary measure for securing the peace of the metropolis. The cavalry were employed on the coast in the pro. lecterns of the revenue, by pursuing sinuggleis through the interior of the coiiiitry, %flitch could not be done by the fatting establishment. On the subject of the proper number of field officers, and the modificatitio of euenpatoer, the Hon. Member *whited to huve a theory of his own, to maintain w the House of Commons would not look upon es d pirliaiueutary ground for inquiry. —The waggon train was at prevent wholly employed for the uses of the cavalry. W her r eat uctioi th the service became praetiraide, it was rot di.e to consider what savings sight artaally be made at the tame, without soy regard to fool. rity ; us the contrary, the einahlskeeem maintained should be looked spur ad the sacks, oat of which the whole was lit be renewed and rewstalindeed whew Ilea polio seal el eta wietasess of the toiletry readered it necessary. The pies of recruit. is, reenaroweroded Was sue which 31r. BMA ke had taken great panse,to abolish, and the mode now followed both ceased the duly itself to be &use more effectively, tiled greatly cue tabloid to simplicity and correttairs in the keepiag of Ore ariersonts. The riding imbued had bees established fisi the purpose of affuerherg as noihoneity of iostroetion is riding Ifs eery reginsent, which experience had shewu ow service id be atresnely desirable. The reason *by there were smote officers he the shahs Ireland than here, was, that Is ',a l ba t h e ( wets w ere greatly sure Cowers:ell A ti : g •••• • : c similar answer was applicable :o the (dejection+ to the • nuneber in the Windward and Leeward IstaaM. Thit simple ,newer to the Alutaelte respecting the increase of Maks ta the Ira ()Mew was, that formerly that esta elishoseal had not item increased In the same- propo rtion as our foree lead bees hic re a sed ; the rowel isfeirte was an immense accumulation of nimettied aratemis, an lecnevenience that had not yet teen whelly fni red of The Noble lord then adverted to the objective's bellies' the Com alallariat Department. He amended, line the "seem of amirmiime with a hatcher or baker far three mastitis was both mare convenient and more ircostonsiad Man else mode in which the Hon. Gentleman propoeed I. have the supplies made. With regard to the telerimmearer. GeiwraCS Department, it was the same as be et/f, except the &elitism of a Lithographic Press, which bad hero room, extremely issefol and economist, and a in.l•4 raped a sonde of feraishing the reports and iteronaroi• required by that piece As to the Cueepirollee's Herta, it most be re collected that lamb of the horsiness of the reanimation of seconois seldom ended with the war to which them mesas° refereed. He Would nett lurch on the. Mili tary •College, in which great redactions bad been mode, and arrangewomis mere now leakier. I. roneolidoe tem (he tub of hog • the ',Moe anti Umbel departments, by which avast prefesson would be allured. As I. the mew pleimethat mom Cadets would he raised than meld be pro metal for in the army, seven); see eighty might be fully provided for, and that was flail to the member which it weight be mpecial would ever" year he ready-1. Gentlemen might ohjeet to the titles or the eaters of the Colter-: whether they were called by the military title of Major, Sr any civil title,: was in his miienatioll a matter of little inspeirtapeit. Tim Hon. Member bad adverted to the time employed by the Professors, noel had mid, that two boars a day was the period of flair duty, beet he bad the sat isfaet ice of Johnnie* theatre. Mosither,that by the emataira meats now making, they would he ensployea A hoer, $ dty in soneweer.old b hours in winter, • space of time melficiestly long. comielering the nature of their duty. •Th. Hen. Gist. had said, that be thought the saltier Arpartment might be useful, bet the jumbo :weld not, as they wesedirsot fail biro get by the time they were called apse actual deity all that they had Serial at the College. But he thought the Hon. Mem ber himself fureislwel in his awn person a esilicieni refute lion of that argument. The Hoe. Member had, he believed, bees educated at that College, and bad out exhibited that rapid furgettubtese of what he had learnt.—(Neer, hear ) VOl himself, ha listiodeclare his opposed."' to the opinion of the Hen. afthsiber; be thought that if we were to have ap effective army we must have geed officers, and they meld ant be had melees they were educated for the prole-m..18.--- U suels . public establishments were not in existence here, the coasequeme would be, that young men would lee driven abroad to Femme or Gemmel, at a time of life when most susceptible of those impressioes, by which the character of the future mew was formed —(lFlear, hear.)—He was sorry the Noble Lord was sot is his plac e, whom he hail often heard declaiming wino the use of readies troops„ he might have had his support on this point. For himself Immeshed the officers of the army not vilely to lee British by hirtle, hot British in education seeitimentsi lied character. A .tote had Matey, been passed every Semites to make the Catholic seminaries of education in Ireland, and if it was thought necessary to give • national character to the persons who were to instruct the peasantry of Ireland, it was surely equally necessary to give British feelings to British officer,. The Hes. Gentleman frequesilt alluded, whew he graft of the retired allawimers, to the Act passed is ISllyelthough the cases which he hoe specified either did sot come within the seaming of that Act, or had °teetered previous to its Fusing. Such was the first ease, wiser bk wiestiostal an esthete, whose name eveKed 'molten Mos the most pleasing, Ciallea. ed ai it was with great mobile services. Thii gelid.' °Meer wss placed on the retired list in 1109, wA the Act passed is 1511. Theses* was the case also of the 'Meer retired from the ruche illeperinseat of the War-offiee. With respect to the reelreitalloodoces to the Medical Beard they were al l/whom. glans on the bf a departeseue, and did riot New wields the spirit Or maiming of the Art Having thee geese thivegh the whale of she points alluded to by the Hoe. Member, be thought the Reese would he sad,: lied that Imellad laid no grourd for his proposed (Thew, bass.) —Nothing certainly was so easy as to ask for a C,ousesiitee, which, after all, he mild only ask. for that they might give an opinion. But the .Hoamerable blene bee forgot that there had bees not only Conentittere, but d Commission of Inquiry, which sat for many yeas on these very points which the Hamoneble Mews's. r now pro. poses to review. TM Hossourable 'fresher ihuoilet that if this inquire were granted, he 'Wield Sod a board of Amen, a mine which at every tura .ef the spade would bring to light etterielidaen wrong; hot the Honourable .elember &got that the ground was already dug and examined, and not an kits of abuse had bees detected. He hoped the Howie would agree with him teat no paelia. menlary . groused hail been laid to induce !bees to rent this modem; bet that these details would Isere properly MIMIC into discussion when the Estimates Were before them. The Noble Lord motioned, and said, that be certainly felt as much as any one the distress; bat the Hume reeve bound in comillier not only the hardens that were borne, but the blessings which these bordello had procured se He r e ad_ lected that great struggle, when we had not only all Europe, lent the Whole civilized world intim as, when the utmost effort cad national courage woo eel, out to despair of the Republic. If any person then could have got a glimpse of safely for on reelveteand a prospect of delivenume for Europe, he would put it to the Hon. Gentleman, whether it would nit have heels accepted with rupture, alibonelt the price fixed were *treat proem' exertions,,. and a patient endurance of after privations. Weald nut this have been thought a low price to pay Cr the freedom and iudependence of the roeietry?--(Flear, hoar, hoar ) Mr. CaLetare mid, that In one point he did net 'tree with kis Hon. Flirted (Co towel Davies), and that was is the proposed reduetio• of the Cavalry Establishment; he thought the preeertration of a large skeleton establishment presented she best mesas of speedily inereasirg it to • larier effective for in case of necessisy. With the other particulars of his Hoorierahle Friend's speech be entirely greed; he thought that bis Honourable rieud had fully shewn that there was • probability of • saving being effected of milersl hundred thousand pounds, awl all he asked was a Committee to see if that saving could be made. The Noble Lord came down to that House and made • sperieli once a year; and without meaning any di.- respect to hie talents, be must say, that he was Ike best paid orator of the age. He did not think, because a Committee, who had had the whole expeosliture of the country before them, had at the same time had this fohjeet also Ender Weir consideratims, was • sufficient reason for refugia' the impels, now. Sir H MUM PAIIIIIILL thought that the feet of one sow, la the kb year of peace, having in certain of the departments relative to military affairs, a greater sum to pay than at the fourth year of the war wee • ma-Wm semou fur inquiry ; more perifenlarly *hew rut pled wish the fact, that our re. Tense fur the year had folk* short 1,500,000/. Colonel Daviasiin reply, said, that the stateesesti he had mode, and the Orguments which he WI drawn from them, bad been bellied, but not disproved. With respect to she Conuithisiote of Military Inquiry to which reference had been Made by the Noble Lord, it had existed only during war. He begged that if the Hower would he thought to do its dory, and endeavour to promote the public Welfare, they would support his call for inquiry. Colopel 6tallT said. that stith regard to the objection which had been made to the forge-carts, they were of she greatest wilily In forwarding the movements of the cavalry, and the peeled hISLISOVeIIieIICe was felt on the retreat of Sir John Moore from the deficieoey of that useful article. The Hon. Member thee adverted to the riding.schogi and large staff kept on foot, which be coutraded were bulk necessary. Mr. Eatce mid be merely rose to state the grounds sos which he meant to support the Hon. Member's motion for inqoiry. To the various dated, of she question, whether re. gardiug cavalry or infantry, he professed himself iriewinpe. tent ; but it was his intentimi to look a little beyoud dome details: he intended to look is the heavies ow foot • lar..e standing army to time of prier. He thought it was also a iiirstimi for the eoissideration of Oise House, how far id Was desirable tolteej these Coltishly which required ti large mi. fifer, force for their protective. thi a fate occasion • coo. siderabk addition of keel fame was made to oar army, sod if a Committee Was appdaird, he should propose slat they a -4. afield Iblitiir.! Whether Iliat fnn , so,oler oil riorumat Ire .86 4.4hoi.uortensolry Or Mese grur krt. bt should.trppou , tiff worlina.• , Colroostllsl,ltto . implairorl. MOO he boa not •torolo.oll Kit ellootrontilino rolowernin ibe kmige , evirlis to ti little: whys 9 r servieirahoord rod is war, loot who n at hum,. land in .tinn...f peace. . 11wGiolItry was Own 'tkarrol low • titvioroor. row bens were— • , , r o For Colonel IDorireo wrenbll • Against it 133 • Majority. an ' flu ;sr return the.lloase ass to a Cotamittre, after whisb the Hauer mutated I.twd Ctia•Lar lahalottaats of W/brick reimplanting, of agrtrositamil tires. Alta a few *De& &wen 1.0,1 Iltufwa. the I'. Wows au laid om the lahle, awl us-4cent pa he pn.to J. After whir.* the other rordt-ra of Me day were date.r.egt i.f, sad the Hoese artjuvrtieti aeri quart., pa..t , - Quasi Beilll.--Holiday at the Soak. Each, gore. Lat fierily sad &putt; Sea H..q.. 11-1.1., BRIT (ti ii iii.:{k:44tii. - ~.s . .." LONDoN. :. -. • v-... • . WEDNESDAY. MAT if, ten. ' •"' i. .., • The discussions in both flueses or Pairliarri.ni last night present some tnetteis of cotii.i.fer..hte! interest: The observations *lnch fell from Lord LITERPotoL offer the gratifying assurance that tf:t; oliaiaters of the (Wien will cot object to the ap pointment of ParaaneentegT Ccfirioritlees to itiquit;`; into the present state of the country „ wall a 'ivy to ascertaining the causes of the general di-tree., and devising some means of split) lug • remedy, at least • palliative to the existing evil. This intimation will be received by the country with' gladness, fair' although it cannot he elljeeettst shit ; an inquiry into the general state of the' agriculttiral and manufacturing interests will immediately dissipate the enabarrissinents tinder which ai r y nos respectively labiour, the in vestigatiob,will be useful in removing many pry.: judices upon these subjects which now too r a w . . rally weevil, and will certaiinly tend very much to gratify the public. rid rettnicile them patiently to endure those evils which; slier solemn time alone may, be &said capable of initigst ing. The SlisAtera, however, will not of !Wins selves oritinste such an inquiry, fearful lest in the event of a failure they might be expos ed to censure; but there is in fact very little difference between their directly moving for the appointment of a Committee, and intimating publicly that they will not oppose such a motion if made by any outer person. Lord Ltvgaroot. adds to the public gratification by further an; nouncing his intention, iu.the event of such a motion being [battle, of stating his sentiments at large upon the actual condition of the country. Such an exposition cannot fail of proving deeply in.; tercating. In the House o f Commons several petitions relat ing to the agricultural cud manufacturing ilistresies of the country were presented, and Lord MILTON fixed Friday se'nnight for his motion respecting the repeal of the Wool Tax. Col. DavIES moved for a Cotimittee to inquire into the military expenditure of the country, with • view to retrenchment ; but the Ministers were too powerful for him, and on a divi. Non his motion was rejected by a majority of 80 ; the numbers for the motion being 4.5, against it 125. I ~r` i I , ----..--- - We cannot forbear from offering our congratola.: tious to the country open the result of the debate in the House of Commons ou Monday night, re specting the appointment of a fifth Bums of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland: Lord MICH/. BALD I-I•MILTON'S motion ',mai direct attack upon the system of extravagant patronage which the Mi. nisters conceive it necessary to support for the pur. pose of securing their own stability, while it pre sented an intelligible and satisfactory opportunity to the House of Commons to prove the sincerity of their professions in favour of retrenchment and economy. The incon,iderable and unsoluolly small m ijority cf le, which on that occasion followed the Ministers, must have startled them not a little ; for a minority so formidable as 177 Members °LTs some assurance to the country Out the voice of the people crying for relief will not always be heard with indifference by their Representatives.—i'he Minato* if they are wise, will anticipate the course of events, and offer the relief which will otherwise be extorted from them by the Howse of Commons; yet, if we were to judge front an ex pression which is reported to have fallen fromi.ord CASTLEILICSGII on Monday eight after the division, it would seem that the lesson received oo that occa sion had but little effect, at least on the Noble Secre. tary. Being asked if, in the event of • vacancy in the Exchequer Court of Scotland, he would engage that the sense el Parliament should he token by the Ministers of the Crown previous to the making of a slew appointment ? -the Noble Lord replied, that G. in the event of a vacancy Ins Majesty's Minster' would provide that the public business of the come. try should be attended to in the usual mintier." Which sentence being rendered into plain English, and divested of the uracalrot obscurity which the Noble Lord knows so well how to shims mimed his seutisnenta, Means Simply, that in ohs mom of a recency, the place should be tilled op as ustal. In consequence of this answer, Mr. 1311013411M11 VIM notice, that thould *Omit *Willett los the .49+ , 0 • er.doss • • • ea I" nor I