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4 1.3 , 1. A. L t ts.ti a.t sit ;:11 , 1 i. HOUSE OF 1. 0,11.1101 VS. May 29. The Se?.AICEa took the C :air at Four o'clock. GREAT LEINSFER AND MUNSTER RAILWAY. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted. WAKEFIELD. PONTEFRACT. AND GOOLE RAIL WAY (METHLEY, ASKERN, AND OAKENSHAW BRANCHES.) O n the motion for the third reading of this Bill, Mr. M. MILNES opposed it, because the great majority of his constituents had expressed their disapprobation of the Bill owing to the promoters having sought to take away ten acres from the race-course at Pontefract. Mr. BERNAL said that the Company proposed to take away four acres of the waste part of the course, and to indem nify the inhabitants by giving them ten acres of superior land. A discussion was about to ensue, when Lord G. SOMER SET moved the adjournment of the third reading until Mon day week. The motion was agreed to. STAINES AND itICHMOND RAILWAY. Colonel THOMAS WOOD moved that this Bill be re committed to the Committee on Group 20. Mr. SOTHERON, the Chairman of the Committee, sajd that when this Bill was before the Committee the solicitor to the Woods and Forests came before ti em with two cluusi.s ; the first give the assent of the Crown to the Bill, ant the second contained conditions which it was impossible for the parties to fulfil without exceeding their esti mates and deviating from their levels. The Committee therefore threw out the Bill. On the 4th of May the parties came bef rte the Committee and stated that the Commissioners of Woods and Forest- were ready to accede to conditions which the promoters couldadopt without infringing their estimate or al tering their levels, and they, therefore, wished the case re-opened. The Committee, however, refused to accede to their request, but stated that they would make a special report to the House. In this case thousands of pounds might have been saved to the peomoters of this Bill if the Commissio, ors of Woods and Forests could have made up their minds before the 20 , 11 of March or the 29th of April, instead of the 9th of May. Would such a course be a just thing to either the promoters or the opponents of the Bill? Supposing they allowed justice to those parties who opposed the Bill, and who, having overcome all objections, the promoters would be injured, and supposing that they angst-cif justice to the parties promoting the Bill, what was the condition of those opposing the Bill? By re—committing this Bill, they would do gr eat injustice. He wished the House to consider whether it was right to allow parties to make such an application to the House ? He wished to ascertain what was the intention of the House with reference to this subject ? After a few words from Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, Mr. BARCLAY, and Mr. ESTCOURT, which did not reach the gallery, Mr. WAKLEY said, that if in this case the House should decide against the re-committal of this Bill, he must say that it would be the most unjust decision it had ever come to— ( Hear, hear)—and that.wa• saying a treat deal.—( Hear, hear. and laughter. ) Would the House for one moment attend to him whilst he stated the facts of the case ? Wnat was the case? That parties promotin , ; the formation of a railroad from Richmond to Staines, t-n miles, went before the Com mittee of their House, and after being before that Com mittee a few days, or a certain length of time, the Committee gave in their report. And what was the Feport ? That the consent of the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests was tendered, and that the surveyor of the promoters of the Bid in his examination stated that he was prepared to make a line in conformity with the recommenda tion, when it became evident that the promoters could not form such a line, as it must be contrary to the plans laid down and deposited in the Board of Trade. The Committee there upon closed their proceedings on the Bill without hearing the whole of the evidence in favour of it. It would appear that this matter hart b:•en considered ; but he must say that it had not rightly been decided upon by the Woods and Forests. To this he had no objection, but it be came a material question when the public convenience was concerned. (Cries of " Order, order.") There might be an outcry, but still he must assert, that if this were a question of 40, 50, or 70 miles of railway, there might be a matter for consideration; hut he must assert that the case of the promoters had not been properly heard, and when the question was whether ten miles of railway should be made, at an expense of 150,0001 , or whether a Bill should be obtained without any reference to public convenience, he thought that the necessities of 150,0(X) people had not been sufficiently attended to. Mr. BERNAL thought that great negligence had been exhibited on the part of the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests. Mr. WOOD (Brecon), hoped the House Is ould give the motion a favourable consideration, as the promoters had been treated with much injustice. Colonel WOOD coasidered ae the promoters of the line hasi expended a large sum of money in prepairing their case for Parliament, that they ought to refer the rule again to the Com mittee, in order that the disputed question might be settled. Mr. TANCRED said this was the second session the Bill had been before the House. It was thrown out last session by the Committee of Selection on account of some informality. He submitted that from the first moment of its pro jection it was quite obvious that the Woods and Forests would not consent to the passing of the line through the property of the Crown. When they came before the House this year they were in the same position with respect to the Woods and Forests, as they still refused their consent. The Committee to whom the Bill was referred found it impossible to proceed with it under such circumstances, and they there fare negatived the preamble. After detailing the proceedings of the Committee, he concluded by expressing his opinion that, in cases in which the consent of the Woods and Forests was necessary to the construction of a railway, that the fact of inch consent having been obtained should be shown before the Committee of Selection. Sir G. GREY must say that if the promoters of the Bill were not able to produce the assent of the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests before the Committee ,in censequence of the delay of the Government, it would be a great hard ship to prevent their Bill from proceeding through t he House. lf, on the other hand, the non-production of that assent was caused by a want of due diligence on the part of the promoters, he could not see any reason why the decision of the Committee should be reversed. Now, what he wanted to know was, whether the delay rested with Government; and he should not like to give his vote on this occasion without some explana tion on this subject from a member of the Government. Mr. HODGSON said t,at the reason the Committee re jected the Bill was because t::ey had deemed the estimate in sufficient. . . Colonel o one WOOD said the Hon. Member was mistaken as to ----- the facts. Tne fact was, that, in the prosecution ti,.l of the works, the Woods and Forests required at. should be made not only under the park, but under the river. Sir R. H. INGLIS said, that previously to giving er. an y , on this subject, he thought the House ought to beinpo b s e s t e w s y s e i ) e o t n n e of the whole of the correspondence which had passed the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests and the pro moters of the Bill. They would then be enabled clearly to understand the pisition in which they were placed. He would beg leave to move, therefore, that the present discus sion be postponed till this day week. The amendment having been put, Mr. C. P. VILLIERS said that he would believe that his Honourable anti Learned Friend the Member for the University of Oxford was very anxious to have further Istfcrmation on the matter before the House, but he was just le sure that the parties more immediately interested would rather have a decision at the present m oment. He begged to s,!yt b e f ore they came to a division, that the Select !;?mmittee had, as yet, pronounced no decision on the Bill. The Hon. Chairman of the Committee had made no com p laint againsttel any person or office. He had s t a ted the case ver y tempe ray and fairly, and, as the case would be establishing no precedent, he trusted that the House would consent to the *notion. Lord LINCOLN said that, jud h g e in t r , from the circumstances he had heard since he came into he felt inclined to support the amendment of his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Oxford. He (Lord Lincoln) was connected with the Hoard of Woods and Forests in the last year. and he recol lected that precisely the gam- line waslaid before them, and the Board then intimated their determination an to resist it to the utmost. They had commi.sioned u n p e o n n t e t n h g e in c t r •e n r wn to p r r e n port as to the effect the line would hav e e rni perty, and he had reported that the line was very objectionable - , but that no other could be carried thr ough The line was dropped last year, a ndthesame sieuntry. brought forward in precisely te was now He should not be disposed to vote against the sa ß m il e l. He astonished to hear the charge brought against his Hon. Friend ,at the head of the Woods and Forests. Mr. WAK LEY rose to explain. 6-t'slonel WOOD hoped that the House would accede to the repos-al of the Hon. Member. The debate was then adjourSOnedUTHERN till MonCONNECTING day week. NORT HERN AN RAILWAY. On the motion that this Bill be read a second time Mr. WA i‘LEY moved, 5i... , an amendment, that it be read a second time that day six months. In doing so the Hon. Mem ber p r esented a petition against further proceeding with the 12,000 of the scripholders. The original num scheme, signed by was 1 1 3,00, so that here were three-fourths her of shareholders Bi.l ping on. Au application of the whole who objected to the had been made to the managing committee, to call a public meeting of the scripholders, and take its sense, in accordance with the s essional resolution that had been agreed to, but the committee refused to aet upon that reasonable request. and we r eoertainly proceeding with the Hill, thus entailing additional exp.nse on the shareholders. The fact was, the shareholders had been completely deceived with red to the line which was pro- sed to connect the important man g nar a cturing town of Watford ,at po one end, with the large and populous town of Dorking, at the other.—(A laugh.) The whole affair was a monstrous con reption, from which the scripholders prayed now to be relieved. • Mr. T. WOOD said he knew nothing of the parties, though he considered the scheme would be of great use in ere It in a circular manner round Lon don. It left the London and Birmingham Railway at Watford, ai:d passing along the valley of the Cope it crossed the Great Western Railway, and went on its ter minus at Dorking, thus affecting a circular eotunsunicatindinon round London.—( A laug h.) He believed, notvvitlistaa the laughter of the Hon. M ember for Finsbury, that a line of this ki n d wo uld be very useful to transm it g oods and troops, and would be also of consid rattle benefit to the public. Captain FITZ NI AU RICE stated that he had three petitions from the that it lami owners on the line again st the Bill, and prayi n g might not be allowed to pass. Alderman HUMPHERY said that he had a petition of some consequence t the South We,t„,s° present aainst the Bill. It was from would cross their r0,:::7,t0 stating th er isthat of the mi sephrioepfosteod threailpwaasy. /scatters and detriment After a few words from the 'me- CHEQUER, which driodmr,,t,he CHANCELLOR of the EX- Mr. T. 8. DuNc omß tirach the gallery, s w ai e d r ,.t that i .e n o h n i his beliefthe committee,the o only persons in favour of the tine who had got the lOate d reacueendt.o deposit of the unfortunate ehareholders. They A public meeting to take the a,snasefilctor sh it a t r e e e h t o o ld a e s r s s et a n s b i l o e e d ommitte e declined do' the propriety of going on, but %CI :. q hr u e" es:i n o g n . were against ths t - r e so, and wished to go on till the th l a ' t h t e he m ß ai i o ll iT h tgy e of the scripholders The SPEAKER, having put the read a second time, The motion was negatived without a RAILWAYS. divis ion. Th e Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Newport an d St Andr ews's Branch) was read a third time, ere also Railway t h e Arbroa th and Forfar Railway and the _ as were L n ort h Yorkshire Railwa y• Lan a s and • STIRLING AND DUNFERMLINE RAILWAY. This Bill was read a third timi and passed. LONDON AND IIItiMINGHA4 RAILWAY EX FEN- Mr. SPOONER presented a petition strsinst this Bill. EAST LONDON RAILWAY. Sir E. COLE BROOKE presented a petition porayng that the House svf.uld re-consider die reptnt of the Comm i tt,e, as the Bill had been ile-cribed by a misnomer. Lord G. SOMERSET thought that the re-consideration taight be allowed, as it was evident that the mistake was inertly a clerical error. A considerable number of other petitions were thso pre sented, amongst whOli was one from gir G. Douglas, and from several partie , vo•nPlAi",ll2 r) 1 toe break , id eiessze, BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. Sir R. PEEL—In pursuance of the notice which I have given, I beg leave to move that the House, at its =icing, do id. jou , n to Friday next, the sth of June ; and I think it is right to give notice what is the busbies which I. on the part of the Government, intend to bring forward. The House will meet on Friday, the nth of June. I propose that we shall t ien proceed with the Supply ; on the Monday after I propose to move the second reading of the Irish Bill for the prevention of assassination. I would move it first on Frid iv, only I understand that • ome of the Irish Members are absent.—( Hear, hear.) On Friday, the I gte of Juois, I propose to brin„; forward the question of the sugar duties; and, on Thursday, the II th of June, I will move that the orders of the day have a precedence over notices of motion, but that arrangement will not take lilacs until Tnursday, JunelB, so that there will be ample notice. Mr. J. O'CONNELL beeged to inform the Right Hon. Baronet, that so long at the Irish Coercion Bill was before the House the Irish Members would oppose orders of the day having precedence, and they would also move an amendment upon every order. Mr. T. DUN CONIBE said, that when the Corn Bill was before the House it was understood that the Customs' Bill and the Poor-law Removal Bill were before the Irish Coercion Bill. Now, the Poor-law Bill was postponed indefinitely. They were going to waste week after week en the Irish Coercion Bill. There was another Bill, and that was the e nrolment of the militia. He had called attention to this Bill lung before Easter, and now it was Whitsuntide. Now they had not seen this Bill, wh ch ought h e t o W h h a i v t seu nbeen e laid on the table before they separa ted for t t , h .h e en en i d t fh,foltihdeayss,..,sioinl,ewfheeanrefdewthAaltemwboeurlds deferredbweerep r e s en t u , n a t n i i d was pons ble it might pass without that attention being bestows d upon it which it des !rved. After a +evw words from Colon e l WOOD, Sir R. PEEL sai I he had fel t certainl y th a t the Govern ment might have been in a position to have brought forward the Poor-law Removal Bill before this period of the session, but he ws sure the House would make allowance for the peculiar position in which her Maiesty's Government were placed by the great quantity of business which they had to discharge. They were really now devotii.,; sixteen or eighteen hours a day in the dis charge of their public duties. In the present state of public business he saw no reason why they should not take the Bill on Friday next.—( Hear, hear.) But any one must feel that the Government. were bound to proceed with the Irish Coercion Bill at the earliest possible moment. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, if the preliminary discussion of which the Honourable Member for Mallon had given notice with respect to the Poor law Removal Bill, should be affirmed by the House, it would be necessary to commit the Bill pro firma, for the purpose of remodelling it its accordance with that notice. It was most desirable that the House should come to a determination with reference to that notice, in order that the Bill might be taken on Friday, if possible. Mr. HUNIE expressed his regret that the more important measures before the House should be delayed by discussing a mea sure of minor interest. He wished to impress on the Right !lon Baronet the tieeessitv of postponing the Irish Coercion Bill until all the other important measures before thes House had been discussed and passed —( Hear, hear.) The way to save time was to make good use of the time they had. If he persevered in proceeding with the :Coercion Bill he would stop every measure which would be useful to the country. In saying this he did not simply state his own opinion, but the opinion of these on his side of the House — and those whom he met out of doors were of the same opinion. Mr. G. BANKES said, that. his Right Hon. Friend at the head of the Government might recollect that it was understood that the general preamble of the Poor-law Bill should he die cussed on going into Committee.—( Hear.) He thought, there fore, that it should not be taken for granted that they were to be strictly limited to the discussion on the amendment which had been suggested.—( Hear, hear.) It would be in the recollection of the House that several weeks ago he proposed a Select Committee w:th reference to this Bill, for anticipating this very difficulty ; but at the present moment they certainly could nut do otherwise than follow what the Right Hon. Baronet was pleased to propose ; bat it must be under stood at the same time that they were at libert , to discuss the general principle.—( Hear, hear. ) AM.. CHRISTIE gave notice that he should move, on the 16th of June, for a Select Committee to inquire into the laws with respect to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Mr. WODE HOUSE moved for a return of the ritio of the total amount levied du-ing the year 1845 for poor rates in the counties of England, and also the total amount of real pre perry as bearing proportion to the amount of the poor-rates so levied ; the counties to be classed as under-mentioned : let class, the manufacturing coon r.es ; 2nd class, the mineral counties; 3rd class, the agricultural counties ; 4th class, the metropolitan counties. THE OREGON TERRITORY. 11r. HUNIE said, that it was reported that a formal notice had been sent to this country by the President of the United States to the British Government. terminating the Oregon Convention of 1537. Now he wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet, the First Lord of the Treasury, if the report were correct ? _ Sir It. PEEL replied, that. the American President had cer tainly given formal notice of the termination of the existing Convention, which is to take place at the end of this year ;aid in giving that notice, he adopted the terms agreed upon by both Houses of the American Legislature, in the hope that it might lead to anamicable adjustment of the question.—( Hear, hear,) ...........e...g..................tai , ----.----._ estimate o t i n e revenue, t e rs pout to to such observation, as would vindicate himself in 'their 'eyes'. , ritt. 'ln m'aEng the f r: ' ''' ii '6i ' 't The Noble Lord, the Member for . Lynn, having heard on a .which attention is directed are the customs revenue of the former occasion that he was going to offer some observations country. This branch .of the revenue produced last year, as with reference to the price of potatoes in Yorkshire, had, with already statiel, 19,768,001/. But, in consequence of the the kindness which always distiegished him, handed to him measures which have been passed this session through Parlia a letter from a person residing there; which letter referred to went , a reduction of these duties has taken pla ce to the the subject. The Noble Lord did net know the writer of the amount of 1,041.100. e But no Hon. Gentleman, who con letter, but on his (Mr. Lawson) ste -ing it, he at once de- siders either what is past, or dealing with the ordinary prin- Oat e,t that he was acquainted with the author of it. He was ciples of finance, will consider that the revenue of the succeed caned nem for the none of the individual , but he was not inn years is to be calculated by d e d uc ti ng from the revenue of then able i to say who he was. He would now state that his tne past year the amount of duty now proposed to be sub name was Mr. Robert Schofield, of Sands Hall, near Ho w den, tracted. A large deduction must be made on account of in who was a large grower of potatoes. Many animadversions creased consumption in those articles from which the duty is were offered up nn that statement, and he had written again to en•irely removed. Allowance must be also made for the Yorkshire, for the purpose of procuring information on the increased- consarnptien in these articles which remain subject, as he was not then in a condition to give a sati s fac- : subject in some degree to taxation. In consequence of the tory explanation. On Saturday last, he (Dar. L a wson) total abolition of the duties upon a great variety of other wrote to the Alderman th a t h e wou ld offer „i n ee e articles, in the d duction whieh should be made upon account of cation of the statement which he disputed.—(Hear. ! the abolition of duties during the present year, I must be Lear.) He would now, therefore, say that the gent l eman guided in seine degree by the experience of the past. I find wh i sent the potatoes to London was a Mr. Meggott of Howden. ' that upon reference to the reduction previously made, that if I It appeared this cargo was brought into port on the 17th of take the loss of revenue in the customs at two fifths of the March, arid that it was transhipped on the 14th of April, and amount of the duty repealed,' s ho u ld exceed that which hasbeen that it reached Hull on the .2 oh. The potatoes were not found to be lost in a period in which we had been for some time sold there, but were transferred to Leeds, where they were past receiving a less amount of duty. I should not trust to so'd at the rate of 50s. per ton. He did not pretend to deducting from the customs revenue a greater sum than know much of the potato trade, and, with all deference to the 400,000/. on account of the reduction in duty ; thus we Hon. Member, and at the same time to the Hon. Alderman, therefore leave the customs revenue, ins'tead of 19,700,009•., he must. assert., that the reports were not borne out by the facts. , only 19,300,000/. I take it at a greater amount than that, and . It appeared that the whol e of the cargo was 170 tons. It I will state to the House my grounds for so doing. I find at continued appeared also. that two cwt. were sold at the rate of 275. a upon reference to the moo experienced, and the most . , ton. Forty-three tons were sold at the rate of 50s, a ton. The observers of the course of things, that there is every antici cargo was not disposed of at Hull, but, accordieg to the rep at pation of the continuance during the year to come of the pros. m of Captain Shaw, it was carried to Leeds, where 43 tons were perity in trade which we enjoyed last year. I receive fro te disposed of at the rate of 50s. per ton. He need not repeat every outport the mo=t satisfactory statement with reference have that he had no experience, but it appeared to him that it was the prospects of the revenue for the ensuing year. t, L,, u an unwerrent able stretch of the personal power of the Ministry, been called upon by different persons . in the ourpor .. 0. d u i t The Hon. Alderman had stated that no potatoes had been of- the City of London, not to confine my augmentation hei th t e d fered in London to any but cow-keepers at as low a pri ce as to 200,n00 . 1 ate always anxious to or sate that which he (Mr. Lawson) had stated. This statement, it .) I therefore limit the sum to 1,950,000/. Has the revenue fallen off on account of the reduction which appeared. was without founriation or fact. There was in the has been made ? I find in many of the returns from different Pty of London a monopoly in potatoes which ought to be looked ports of the country, that such has been to a very limited ex into by that House. He could riot trespass further on the si le.—( Hear, . . tent, during the last six weeks, being from the commencement House, but if any of his statements were impugned, he would of the financial year. And thi s h as b een d uring a p••riod when reserve to himelf the right of making a further explanation. Alderman HUMPHREY said the Hon. Member had deli- there was considerable uncertainty as to the measures of the vered himself of something which he conceived to be like that Government , and the consequent uncertainty and speculation which was produced by the mountain in labour, Now he did th a t prevailed. In many of the se ou t-p or t s . s o far from a re impugn his statements, and he would trouble the House by read- ductio n of the revenue- dut y , I find that, during these six weeks, ing to them what it was he said on the last occasion. in many there has beers an increase, in others an equality of After reading an extract from the speech in question, the revenue, while in those in which there has been any deficiency Hon. Gentleman proceeded to say, that a gentleman, whose it has been accompanied by the statement that the re name, he believed, was Miggots, or Maggott—(Laughter)— venue is gradually i n c reas i ng, an d is likely to continue who combined in his own person the business of linendraper, so. —(Hear, hear.) I t a k e t h e l ast s i x w eeks as a a painter, glazier, mercer, and, he believed, also the business ies ification of my a rgument as to the amount t h at ma y b e ex of a hatter—( Laughter) —and other things, had read an ac itected, becau s e I w i s h to s h ow that the duty repea l e d i s no t t o count of the " Peel Panic," and that potatoes were going to be taken as an indication of th e exact a mount that may be be extremely scarce. Not knowing, however, much about found deficient. I find, in referring to Liverpool, Leith, New the potato maeket, he went to a small farmer—who her he castle, Port Glasgow, and Dublin—ports confined to no par was a friend of the Hon. Member (Mr. Lawson) he did not ticular portion of the United Kingdom, there has been no kre w—but, at any rate, he went to him mad purchased 50 tons falling off in revenue in the last six weeks as compared with of potatoes at 88s. He requested the farmer to have the six weeks of the preceding year, and that we have every the potatoes all picked, and to have the best samples selected expectation, when Parliament has done with the measures now in order that they might be forthwith sent to London, in before it, ti e revenue will spring up beyond what it has been anticipatien that when they were sent to London he even before the alterations were made.—( Hear, hear.) On should have been enabled to sell them foi the purpose of seed. these ground I consider there cannot be any large reduction o! But being. however, an unfortunate tradesman, he did not duty, and that I may fairly estimate it during the coming tear know how to ship the potatoes, and a Mr. Saltmarsh, shipped at 19,500,000 e Tee next important branch of the revenue is them for him in a brig called the " Vigilant." They were put the excise. Upon that branch of the revenue there was a large in the forecastle, and made five rooms of potatoes. When they abo.ition of the revenue last year. In consequence of this re arrived in Landen, a quantity of a similar descriptien, duction of duty, the excise had fallen off 100,000/. as corn brntmeht by the same brig, were sold at 955. per ton. The pared with what it was before the glass and a u c ti on vessel was d Awned some weeks, during which time, a person duties were repealed. On this head, with respect to the named Liddel, sold about four tons at from 85s. to 90s. per future, he had the most sanguine expectations, founded ton. As the remainder could not, however, be sold, he was upon the experience that the revenue in this department had persuaded to take them to Leeds, where, he presumed, he sold exceeded the calculation which was made when the statement them to the poor at a cheaper rate. He lost 2001. by the was made to the H: use. The experience we have had gives transaction; and Mr Scholefield and others stated the case to us full assurance of what we may fairly calculate the future the Noble Lord, saying, " Here is a care in point of potatoes revenue to be. I will take the revenue for the ensuing year, being plentiful, and yet they cannot be sold even in London," and I will aid 13,400,000 e, be.ng a sum of 100,000/. more than and on that assertion and on these facts, a cry was raised that the in the year 1845. With respect to the stamp duties, on which statement that there was a scarcity of potatoes was untrue. there has been received 7,660,0001, timing the last year; for He eould state the quantity of potatoes which came into the present tear I will take the SUIR of 7,400,000/. As much London, to show the tailing off that had taken place in the of the augmentation of duty arose from that sudden increase of sup. ly of the present year. in 1840, there were 7,3 10,000 railway speculation, which has been so much the subject of sacks brought up the river; in 1844, 1,222 000; in 1e45, discussion in this House, and as I cannot anticipate that the 1,5115 000 ; while in the present year the number was only same extent of railway speculation will prevail during the en -959,000 sacks. He had been told by Mr. Little, that Boise suing sear, after the experience we have had—( Hear, hear)— ,iotateea which the Hun. Gentleman opposite had alluded to I propose to deduct from the stamp duty a sum such as can be could haveall been sold for 41. per ton, but this gentleman, who fairly attributed to the agency el that speculation. And I had embarked for the first time, and had fairly being taken will therefore make a reduction of 260,000/. With respect to in, refused to sell them for less than 5/. per ton.—( Hear.) the assessed taxes, anti the land tax, I will take the same It would appear that there was a sort of sweating in the vessels amount, 4,200,0e01. With regard to the property-tax. I think in which the potatoes were recently brought up to London ; it has very nearly produced, in the course of the last year and this very week no less than 5000 tons of potatoes were 5,100,000/. The assessments under the new Act of last year round to be unfit for human food, arid they were thrown into have all been completed, and I make this statement without the river Ttiarnes.—( Hear, hear.) Gent:emen's po- any particular data which could enable me to make out an tan es, he said, were produced on a highly cultivated soil accurate return upon the present occasion. There is, how. and thee were, therefore, not liable to the i,light which befel ever, no reason to a pprelsend that the amount will be short of the Yorkshire potatoes. He had now only to say what he had what was produced last year, arguing from the increasing before said, that the assertions of that lion. Gentleman must, prosperity of the country. With respect to tie post-office, have been made fur a (tarty purpose—to deceive the House in which there has been during the last year a very large and the public, and induce them to believe That potatoes were increase of revenue, I think that that increase of revenue plentiful that they could be bought at reasonable prices and that should be confined to that particular year. There has, there need be no fear whatever of want of potatoes in London. however, for some time past been a gradually pro- Toe reason why the woi kites classes of the me , rop die had been greasing increase of the revenue in that deprrtment. sble to support themselves was, that they were well employed Ido not take the same amount of increase for the year upon and liberally paid, and they were enabled to resort to o th er which we have now entered as there has been for the y ear sort of food. When they recollected that 40,000/. worth of which has just closed • and for this reason—not that I antici potatoes had been last this year, they must see that there must pate otherwise than ;hat the revenue, having additional facilis have been a great falling off, and he had no doubt th a t th e ties to increase, will continue to do so--but there is an im- Hon. Gentleman who shipped the potatoes in question would provement which I contemplate in the administration of the not trust to potatoes aertin—(Laughter)—and he wou ld fi n d post.offiee, which improvement, by throwing an additional that it would be as well to have two strings to his bow, and expense, in the first instance, on the public revenue, but confine himself to his own proper trade.—( Hear, hear.) which, nevertheless, in my opinion, will contribute to the Mr. LAWSON rose for the purpose of making an explana- efficiency and general character of the department, I am tion, but resumed his seat amidst cries of " Order, order." anxious to leave a margin for the conduct of this operation ; Mr. HUDSON said he was not going to interfere in the but still lam inclined to take only the augmentation of the re debate upon potatoes, but he felt himself called upon to make venue, and I therefore, content myself with taking a total sum one observation on what had fallen from the worthy Alderman of 850,000/.. being'6o,oool. above the sum which was received opposite in referenc e to the quantity of potatoes that had been in the course of last year. With respect to the crown lands, I brought to London, as compared with those which h, d been im hare to observe that the amount apportioned for promoting the ported into the metropolis in former years. There could be principles of the Zoological Society, and for which he was no doubt that the recent increase in the quantity of potatoes about to submit a motion to the House, was 120,0001. This imported into Loudon was to be attributed to increased railway was exclusive of the sums apportioned for that purpose during accommodation.—(hear.) It had come to his knowledge that the past year. It had been calculated that the amount many large potato districts availed themselves of the advan- required for the year ending on the sth of tag , s offered by railways of sending off their p o t a to es t o o ther April, 1847, would be 50,900,000/., exclusive of the large towns.—( Hear, hear. ) money to be derived from the treaty with China, the full THE BUDGET. amount of which would be at least 700,0. e 1. But including The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Surlily, ooo ' 000 e of that amount, the whole amount is stated at 51,6571. The whole of the expenditure during the last year when was estimated at 49,400,1)00/. It is impossible to ascertain The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and said what the expense will be in future years, but I may safely —I am anxious Mr. Greene to avail myself of this opportunity, estimate hb the made during the past . a a t r 2 t ,..2o ,e o, l 4Lo e i. h Great efforts previously to the separation of the Hearse, of bringing before 0; the s en eve m ral °ince G e ov p er s nn 3 ie e rit, but it was ' f e e urt oa t expenditurethe them that at nual statement of th e finances of the country, expenditure of the useful establishments could not be reduced. which is expected from the individual who holds the situation our attention has been especially turned to our steam navy, which 1 have the honour to held. lam sure that the state- and it is believed that a great advantage will be obtained by mint which I have to make to the House, will have but little the introduction of guns of heavy ca ibre into our steam force. I w ill not go seriatim th roue h t h ese a dditions to the House, but I attraction, except from the subject with which it has to deal. do think, notwithstanding these charges, the expense of the I shall not be able to embellish it with any thing novel, since consolidated debt will amount to more than 29,200,0001. At the House have had already before them, during previous dis- present it is calculated at 28,100,0001., exclusive of the sum of eussions, the details of these parts of the subject, which are 2,5(10,000.. which appeared as a surplus. The total amount of the most interesting to the community. The House has already these two charges, which may be called the permanent been informed by my Right Hon. Friend, the First Lord of the charges of a country, is thirty millions six hundred and Treasury, of the reductions, which it was his intention to make seventy-five thousand pounds. The army expenditure of last in the different duties of customs, which are at present made. year was six million seven hundred and forty-five thousand Those reductions have been embodied i n the A c t w hi c h h as pounds, being a considerable increase over the estimates. 1 pro already passed this House, and which now only awaits pose then for the present year an estimate of six millions six the sanction of the other branch of the Legis- hundred and ninety-seven thousand pounds, being an increase lature, in order to be ca rried to a full o p era t ion . or the estimate of the former year of 145,0001., arising, as I It will also be unnecesiary for me to enter i n to d e t a il s as t o th e have s tated before, from an addition which it has been neces precise expenditure of the country, because the H ouse h as be- var y t o make in the general force of the army, and the con tore them estimates now upon the table, to the full exte n t templated calling out of the militia.-(Hear, hear.) With which the Government have thought it necessary to s u bmit t o r e spect to the estimate for the navy, I propose an estimate for th e House. Nothing, therefore, remains to me but to bring the present year of 7,521,0e0t, Th e estimate of the former into one general view the statements which are before them in year being 6,943,000/., being an increase of five or six hundred detail as to the revenue and expenditure of the country, and to thousand pounds in a branch of the legislature on which I have show to the House tram the results hots successful havg b een a l rea dy stated rests the security of the country. The estimate those m, asures which the Government in former sessions have for the ordnance last year was 2,142,0001., and I propose for recommended to the ad , ption of Parliament, arid to which Par- this one an estimate of 2543,000 e, making an increase in that hament had given their sanction ; and u pon the co nti n u e d ad- branch of the service of 490,000 e, arising in a great measure herenee and progressive adoption of them I believe the finan- from a necessary augmentation in the corps of the artillery, the clot prosperity of the ceu i ery w ill b e f oun d ma i r l y tie depen d._ serv ices of whom were no less distinguished in peace than in ( Hear, (s v er.) 1 cannot help, Sir, taking this opportunity of war. This high expense o n the f ac e of the estimates will be dispelling some of those apprehensions which have been ex- found extremely low on c ons id era ti o n. The other portion of pressed by the Gentlemen on this side of the House, as to the the expense is for the repair of certain barracks which have effects which the great commercial changes that hare since been for some time, more or less, neglected, and which it has take place might produce upon the revenue of the country. at length been judged expedient to replace in repair , 'These apprehensions have been generally circulated out of the and for th e improvement of various fortifications; t h u s House by these who profess that opinion ; and it is not aiding to the comfort of the troops by improving their I think, unimportant, that those who have honestly indulged barracks, and by furnishing them with better articles than such opinions should be undeceived--all those who have circu- those to which they h ave been hitherto accustomed. lated them with a different view should receive contradiction. I The estimates for miscellaneous expenses last year was shall, therefore, proceed plainly tee lay before the House, in 1.32,000'. ; this estimate this year is 3,2:35,000/. But I have the usual order, first, what has been the result of the receipts, thought it right to set, at the pre s ent moment, 200,0110/. down and revenue, and expenditure, during the past year, and then under this head, conceiving that I shall hereafter have to sub to found upon that calculation what may be the anticipations mit to the House an account of these sums expended in the re which may be entertained as to the receipts anti expenditures lief of the suffering population—it is necessary to have a of the ye ar i n to which we have already entered. The first margin of tins kind, under present circumstances. The ac point to is hick I wish to draw the attention of the House, is count, of course, is a matter of estimate, but, as 1 have said, the calculations that have been made by my Right Hon. Friend, I have thought it right to put that sum in the estimates, in when he addressed the House upon the subject in the last ses- order to make them up to a period, before the arrival of which suns of Parliament, and the ' , ti lt s w hi c h have followed from I think they will be required to meet the general expenses under the scheme he then laid down. The House will bear in mind that head. The effect, therefore, a the total expenditure of that my Right Honourable Friend then stated that certain the year will amount to 20,198,000/. But those additional reductions would be made in the customs and excise rove- charges mentioned in the speech of my Right Honour nuee, and that the result would be that the total amou n t o f a bl e Friend at the commencement of the session— the revenue would be about 49,762,000/. Of this sum I for m m e e d an ical attendance,b y and alteration fur s a l i a n r i e s the f schoolmasters theder 19,509,000!, would be received from the customs, and some thing over 12.000,000/. from the excise; the stamps about different poor-law unions, for the maintenance of prisoners, 7,000,000/., and the taxes about 4,200,000'., the post office and by the expense of prosecutions in criminal case, all contri -700,000e, the Crown lands, 159,000/., and the prop er ty- b ute to this increase of the misce llaneous estimates. They are tax 5,200,0004 I beg to say that lam now sp ea ki ng i n all compr i se d i n t h e statement ihave made. 'l he total amount round numbers, but the suns total makes, as I already stated, of the service of the year, therefore, amounts to 2.i,19-i,0004, 49,762,000/. Now i n l oo ki ng a t th e calculations made by my which when, with the other charges, are deducted from the ex- Hight Hon. Friend, it will be found that while he had esti- peeted revenue of the year 51,630,6004, makes a total amount mated the sum total of the revenue as only 49,000,000/., it of expenditute of 50,863,000/, which leaves a surplus at will be found that it has in fact exceeded 51,000,000/.. and the end of the year of 776,000/. It was with a similar that in this suns was included a sum for the excise of over surplus in the commencement of last year that we entered upon 13,000,000/ , for the stamp duties, 7,600,000/., and for the the period which is past. It is with a similar surplus that we other items sums proportionably increased ; all of which I enter upon the present year ; but I enter upon it now as I did think exhibit a great increase in the commercial transaetions then, with increased c onfidence that the estimate I hare made of this country. I must state that the property-tax as to the expenditure of the country, commerce will be has beets somewhat diminished owing to the repay- rather diminished th an increased, and that the Ho use , at a reents which it had been necessary to' make; and, there- future period, will have time satisfactio n of finding that the result fore, the deductions in that item can be easily accounted for. is even more prosperous than I have now stated. lAM reminded of the Post-office. This department produced Unless it can be shown to me that there is some great error in in the year preceding the last 700,009/., but in the last year 'tie csiculations which I have . made, I think I may say we 793,000 e, an ind i catio n that s t am p s the p er i o d as one o' h are the satisfaction of krieng that th e resu l t is mainly n, great commercial pr o sp er ity. Th e • genera l rece ipts owi ng to the course wh ich I arle lament has of late years adopted, amounted to b2,000.0:30/. ; and here it must be recollected in abolishing prohibitory duties, and in re l ax i ng protective that, indepe n d en tly o f th e or d inary resources o f t h e co u n t r y, a d u ti e s, giving to the industry ot the cou n t r y i ncreased energy, sum of 750,000/. had b een rece i ve d f rom Chi na . The total an d securing for the people at once a means of employment, and resources of the country in past years, which amounted to an easy means of procuring the nec.ssaries and comforts of 49.706,000/., has increased to no less a sum than 52 0 0 9 00 01 . life. But, Sir, when 1 attribute the prosperity of the year I think that the House will agree that the anticipations of my which has passed, and anticipate the prosperity of the year Right Hon Friend and myself in the last session have been which is to come, I may be told that, is ascribing it to the • amply vet died. We have anxiously endeavoured to keep the causes I have just named, lam at fault. I may he told that charges Lyon the debt within the estimate. The sum which one year the financial system may be attended with fortuitous we laid before Pa , liament was 30,749,000 e, and this we find circumstances and accidental advantages, and that the circum reduced to 30,600,000 a, in consequence of a certain stances of a single your do not apply a l ways to the future, I ad amount being charged utters the consolidated fund. mit the force se this ouservation. I admit that you haveno right The estimate for the service of the army and navy, and ordnance, to urge the advantages I have stated as of one year as a rea and the Inlseellan ous estimates, amount to within 40,000/. of son for applying a particular system to the future; but I as k the sum stated by my R ig ht lion. Friend. The total result may the House not to esnfine their observations, merely to what therefore be stated thus : a total revenue of 52,009,000/, while has occurred in the present year, or to what resulted the fiepee 49.429,000/.,leaving hag amounted to 49,429,000/.,leavin. a nett from the measure s adopted in • th e l ast year, b ut surplus of 2,591,0i01. Thew was this year to be added to the to carry back their views to a lone series of tide of revenue, an amount of unclaimed dividends, which. years ? (teeing which the present system has been in operation. earyiee in every la year, amoun' ed this year to 2,350,000/. Now It was in the year 1842, soon after the period when the present recollection of the H u se th a t w h en my Right Government came into office, that the present system first it Will l ' m t : a da his statement in the Course of the last year, commenced, and I beg of the House to go along with me in Hon, Friend mosaic . gl anxious not to create a sanguine eepecta- considering what has been the continued progress and result of be was exeeel In t Y as to the measures he was about to propose; , the measures introduced by the Gevermuent, and adopted by tion its the country to the 1 ouie a very moderate surplus. The ' the House. It will be recollected what was the state of the he therefore stated reve nue showed a very cans ieesable improvement upon the esti- country at the period when the present Gov ernmen t en t ere d mate, and I th i .k thatvveryth e statement which see have to lay be i office—not that 1 wish to enter into a com p ar i son b etween any fore you will be ackno . wled ed to be o f the mod satisfactory ! particular administrations. And now , i n t h e next p l ats, I I, g i ,ierent elasticity of the re- ! propese t o call t h e a tt e ntio n of the blouse to the situ.tion of c haracter. It proves tee ,noo s , whieh are at the country at the period when we entered into Government. when Certain at soot ,4 this ceuotry ; and e shall b' removed, then I There had been for some years a considerable deficiency in the imp aid upini our commerce, present. sa tis factory. Your com- revenue—that defi c i etcy had inereased at that period to a very am sure the result will be even more . e amount ; ahem • and prosperity of larg l pts had been made by increased net ice will be increased, and the haypiness_ dd. taxation. and 'ind eed oper y made, to overcome that deficiency, but will be greatly e 4 .ten e that the auennentan the great body of the people it wa s found e esa of the duty on customs The estimates are taken for the present year in accordance s exc i se had not the effect. of materially . I have, there- Ind augmenting with the principles which I adopted last year. reference the revenues. The first duty o f tie .Government, therefor(' t ire, new to state to the House my calculations with under these circumstances was to ge rid of that deficiency, ' ' and t , the expenditure and the revenge of the present year, with , to prevent its recurrence for the tut r • ' u e , and it was necessary at this additional advantage, that lam able more couhdently to . it Was indispensably necessary for the good of the uttieiPate the future; in consequence of the experience of the that time— country, that a great additional' burden should be imposed fjr the purpsse of relieving from that iricubits—that amount of debt which was sure, if permitted to continue, to break down the financial prosperity of this country.—( Hear, hear.) Feel ing, then, as we feel now, that the great cause of national prosperity was the relief of the country from those particular burdens which pres3ed more particularly upon the poorer classes of the community—which affected the industry—which checked employment—which prevented the extension of ma- nufactures-4mpressed deeply with those senttments, we com bined with the large imposition of taxes a very large reduction of the existing burdens, by taking off from the customs all the prohibitory duties, and to reduce all protective duties to a more moderate range. And we relied then upon what had actually occurred as to the stimului which those measures would give to the industry of the country in the production of a happy future. Sir, in the year 1842, it was proposed to reduce the duty upon 583 articles, with some few exceptions ; in 1843, pursuing the same system of further redac tion in the duties, upon 7 articles was proposed ; in 1844, upon 4 articles of customs ; in 1845, upon 21 articles of customs, the duties were reduced upon 444 articles, and some duties were repealed; in 1846, th e d ut i es in the customs were again re• duced upon 112 articles -that is by the Bills which have now gone to the othe r H ouse o f P arliam e nt, and an entire repeal is made upon 54 articles, making, with the proposed reduction of imposed osigniave a. duties up to tee pr esen t ti me, a reduction of duties upon 727 articles, and a repeal o f th e d u t y upon 503 articles, upon whi c h g taxes had to be pr ev i ous l y pa id . T hose articles, being for the most part those whi c h concern t h e f ood, the clothing, and tee comforts of the peopl e , as we ll as t h ose articles aehich are used in the manufact ur e s o f t hi s country, and which a re striction upon th e emp l oyment of the people, restriction upon the t ra d e w hi c h t h at employment would Now, Sir, let us then take a rev i ew o f what has been h of those operations. We hav e , as I h ave s h own, had four years result experience, upon which we have a c t e d i n t h e same course,-g a dually. esutiously, but progressively, diminishing thotte pa;tic r u- - lar duties which pressed severely open the industry or the comforts of the people. And let us see what has been the result ? How are we to test its effect upon the condition of the country ? What shall we take as the index of the general pros perity of the country, deduced from the operation of the mea sures of relief upon the people for whom that relief %cal pro. posed. It appears to me, Sir, that there are some tests which, on this subject, may be very well applied. I think, in the first place, we must know what is the financial prosperity of the country-ascertaining what is the available sum that the country has at its disposal at any particular period, dealing with the country as with individuals-that individual is wealthy who has balance at his banker's sufficient to meet the ordinary demands upon him-that individual is poor who has not the means to meet the demands. In the like manner, the first test that I will apply is-what have been the balances of the exchequer of this country? On the Ist of January, 1842, the balance of the exchequer of this country was 3,650,000'.; on the Ist of January, 1846, the balance of the exchequer was 8,450,000!., and if you deduct from that bal ance what was in the exchequer on the Ist of January, 1842, it shows an increase in the balance ' of the Exchequer, of the available means that the Government has at its disposal , of 4,798,000/. Sir, then, as regards that particular test of national prosperity, I think the House will admit it to be complete. The next point to which I shall ad vert is, what has been the state of the debt of the country, during the period to which I have adverted. if we find the country accumulating annually an amount of debt, however small, we can hardly look upon that as an indication of national prosperity. An increase of the debt of the country may be overcome by other advantages, but it is plain, that if notwith standing that state of things he debt of the country is reduced -I say that we must regard with the greatest favour, that sys tem of finance which has led to that conclusion. The debt of this country consists of two great parts, the funded and the unfunded-and they must necessarily he taken together, because, by transferring one portion of those debts to the other, a decrease is made in the one, whilst a corresponding increase is made in the other. On the Ist of January, 1842, the capital of the funded debt was 77,253,000/.-all these accounts are on the paper before the House. The Exchequer-bills outstanding were 19,678,000/. The total debt, therefore, of the funded and unfunded debt amounted to 792,00(5,000'. What was the state, on the Ist of January, 1846, of the funded debt ? Ia 1842 it was 772,000,0001., and on the Ist of January, 1846 it was 776,600,000/. The funded debt that was 19,678,000/. on the Ist of January, 1842, was 18,409,000/, on the Ist. .lanuary, 1846, making a total of 785,115,090/ on the Ist January, 1846, as contrasted with the 792,000,000/. on the Ist January, 1842-( Hear, hear) -showing a reduction during those last years in the funded debt of 7,000,0031.-(Cheers.) This statement, therefore, shows clearly a reduction upon the unfunded debt of 7,000,000/. ; but there is another item to which I would wish to call attention, and it is an item under the head of what is called deficiency, and it is an item which renders it necessary for the Governmet to borrow a certain sum to make up the Exchequer, and to meet the demands upon it. In respect to this item, it would not be fair to compare any one quarter of the year 1842 with any quarter of the year 1846, because many circumstances have occurred which would render it impossible that such a comparison would present a fair contrast.-( Hear, hear.) I have, there fore, taken the average of the deficiencies for the whole of the four quartens of the year 1842, and compared them with the whole of the four quarters of 1846, and I find that in the year 1842 the sum total of the deficiencies for the four quarters of that year amounted to 6,163,030/.; while those of 1846 amounted to 2,029,000/. ; thus making a decrease in this item for this year of 4,133,000/., as compared with the year 1842, which I think is about equal to the decrease I have already named of 7,000,000/. in the unfunded debt; and here I may observe that this economy of the public funds is consistent with an assertion made by Mr. Huskisson, in this House, to the effect that economy was not to be effected by reducing the capital of the debt, bat reducing the amount of the general charge upon the country.-( Hear, hear. ) On the Ist of January, 1842, the interest on the funded debt was 24,40),000. ; on terminable annuities, 4,000,000/. ; the management of the debt at that time involved an expense of 160,000/., and the interest on exchequer-bills was 896,000/. The total charge on the debt, which was to be derived out of the taxes on the country, which was in fact the very first charge to be derived, was 29.598,000/. Now let us look at the year 1846. On the Ist of January, 1846, the interest on the funded debt was 23.600,000!. ; the interest on the termin able annuities was 3,967,000/. I insert this last item to show that the reduction on the funded debt has not been in creased by any addition to the terminable annuities, because we find, that in the year 1842, as in the year 1846, the ter minable annuities have remained at nearly the same amount. In the year 1846 the management of the debt, which in 1842 had been 160,090!., was reduced to 93,000/. The interest on exchequer-bills, which in 1642 had amounted to 896,0001., was in 1846 reduced to 426,000/. The total result, there fore, of all these charges on the debt was in 1842, 29.597 0001., while, on the Ist of January, 184 a, it was 28,129,0001., leaving a balance of relief to the public in the sole article of charges on the debt to the amount of one million and a half. We might have taken the advantage of a further relief, but we have preferred postponing these advantages to the year 1854, when relief to the extent t f 625,0004 will be given in addition. This will give an amount of a million and a half in immediate relief, and a yearly saving of 625,0".01,; at no very distant time, making a total relief of two millions and more on the interest which is at present taken out of the pub lic taxes. What, then, is the result of the test we have ap plied? That we have now a balance in the exchequer of 5,000,0001.-that we have reduced the debt by 7,000,000/.- that we have reduced the amount of exchequer-bills by 4,000,0001., and you have effected a saving in the manage.. ment of the public debt of a million and a half, and also a saving annually in the interest of the debt of 625,000/. I ask any man to show me how these advantages have been secured to the country, if not by that system of commercial and financial policy which it has been the good fortune of the Go vernment to adopt? With reference to the public debt, there is one observation which I wish to make. It may be said that you have reduced the public debt, but during that time you have had a large re mittance from China of 3,500,0001., which has constituted more than half the reduction of the national debt. The amount altogether received from China was 3,360,000/. But how has this sum been applied? In the first place, we have applied on behalf of the expenses of the Chinese war in the year 1842, 400,( 00/. ; in the year 1843, 800,0004 ; in the year 1844, 820.000/. ; opium compensation, 1,270,000/. ; making a total of 3,290,000/., leaving only a balance of 30/.-( Laughter.) Now, Sir, I am sure the House will concur with me that this statement is satisfactory. How has this result been obtained ? Has it been obtained by starving the services of the country, and depriving us of the means of preserving peace at home and our honour abroad? We have thought it right to keep the services of the country on a more solid and firm footing. We have been able to save money and to effect the object without the imposition of any fresh taxes. I know it may be said you may easily get a reduction of the debt by imposing taxes, and in despotic governments the people are heavily taxed in order to pay off the public debts. We have, however, not done so. -( Hear.) When a reduction in any tax takes place, it is expected that an augmentation in . consumption will take place, and you must therefore in considering the relief afforded to the people, take the ameunt which is consumed under the reduced duty compared with what it was before. Take for instance the consumption of sugar under the former duty to be 13,000,000 of lbs., then the amount of relief afforded is that which is con sumed beyond that amount, because when we find there is now consumed 50,000,000 tons a year, it gives every man relief in proportion to the extra consumption compared to the previous amount, besides the difference in the price of a pound of sugar. When we consider the relative pressure of taxation imposed and reduced, it will be shown that we must not take the amount of revenue last, but the amount that would have to have been imposed if these alterations in duties had not come into operation. ha 1842, the taxes that were imposed were, 5,630,000/., principally property-tax, with some additions in customs and the stamp duty. In 1845, there were two small additions made in cus toms and stamps, but these were inconsiderable. The total amount of reduction from the Ist of January. 1845, up till 1846, is 624,008/. But when I come to consider the reduction of the taxes during the same period, I find they are from 1842 as follows : -In 1842, the reduction made was 159,000/, ; in 1843, the reduction from customs was 171,000/ ; in the excise, 240,030!., making a total of 411,000/. In 1844, the reduction in the customs was 384,000/. ; in the excise, 25,0001.; in the stamps, &c., 192,000/, making a total of 414,000/. In 1845, the total relief afforded was. in customs, 364,000/. ; in excise, 1,1351., making in all 4,749,900/. And the relief that would be afforded by the measures now in course of progress through Parliament, would effect a reduction in taxation to the amount of 1,041,0001., making a total amount of 8,206,000/. If we net against this large reduction the amount of duty unpaid, which is 5,624,000!., it leaves a balance in favour of the people of no less a sum than 3,582,0301. With all these large reductions, you have effected an important object in the reduction of debt, annual charge, and other circumstances, materially affecting our national prosperity finance. To what shall I attribut e thi n circumstance ?om gentlemen will tell me that, for a series of years, we have had a succession of good harvests, and to these harvests alone are to be attributed the improvements which had taken place. God forbid that I should do anything to depreciate the value of the greatest blessing that God has sent us, or that I should show any want of gratitude, or want of a due sense of the blessings for which we should be grateful. I feel this as deeply as any one, and I know the importance of the happiness of the people, and the financial prosperity of the country ; and I feel deeply sensible of the importance of a good harvest. We have had former periods in which during several consecutive years we have had harvests equal to the present one, but can we show that in these suc cessive years, say fear years, or even more, of abundant harvests, one year which has in its effect been so pros perous as the prestnt. If we take the years 1834, 1835, 1436. They were years in which abundance existed, e-pecially in the year 1834' for nothing l i k e th e h a r ves t o f that year was knqw n for many years, eith er b e f ore or s i nce . If we look at th ese particular periods, we shall find that the revenue duties were increased materially; but the effect of that reven ue on the debt or annual charge, or by its relief to the people, by no means corresponded with the effect which had been prodaited of late. In detailing these things to the House I will glance at the years 1821, 1822, 1823, which were years of unusual plenty. Can you show me in any one of those periods similar results to those now produced, and which I am now p rocee di ng to d eta il to t h e House. "In these later years to which I have called your attention, we have adopted a system o f commerc i a l and financial policy, w hich had mate rially aided the efforts of the country to relieve itself of the difficulties, surrounded as it was by restrictive duties, anti which commenced by a cautions reduction of duties as a protection. Through a long o f acting series years we have adhered to this policy, and we can say, that we have at tained advantages, which under ether circumstances, we should not for years have attained. It was, however, conducted by a . • - I. irrlan"itf infinitely more ability than the humh!e in the great charges. He did not think the Chancellor had dividual who now addresses you. We are not in ' stated his case in a sufficiently ample manner. He had not debted to finance only for the prosperity of the coon- told them what he expected wool(' be the amount of duties try. Financial prosperity is a most desirable thing in received under the proposed Corn Bill. The.Hou. Gentle itself, and derives additional valu e when accompanied by man bad entered into a glowing statement of the result of the an increase of the comforts of the people, by an improvement policy which his party have pursued when placed in comparo in their moral habits, an extension of i ns truction amongst j son with that of the gentleman who sat on the opposition them, and a greater attention to their moral and religious beentvs, but he did not consider that he had any great right to duties. How can we measure the comf or t s o f the people congratulate himself. When the Right Hon. Gentleman said except by a well known test which I have o ft en se en applied in that all this great prosperity was to be ascribed to their finan this House. What were the savings of the people, and what cial measures, he (Lord G. Bentinek) thought that he amount of their small incomes could they afford to devote to assumed to himself a credit for an effect which in reality was pecuniary investment. If you take the four ye ars p rece di ng produced by the gift of Providence. When it was also stated the year 1842, and institute a comparison between them and that the advantage caused by all reductions would go to the the four succeeding years, with reference to the amount o f consumer, he must venture at once utterly to deny the fart. Th. savings , deposited in the savings -banks, comparing the amount produce of the reduction was, it was well. kuoten, swallowed drawn with the deposits , that will give an assurance of up by the producer and other parties who went between the the greater comforts on the part of the people. Take producer and consumers It was, however, only wasting the the difference between the total deposited during the four years time of the House to go into the whole question, awl he before and after 1842. In the year 1842, they wouldfind that would refrain from troubling it any further, at the same time before that period the amount was 357,0001., anti during the entering his pretest against its being supposed that he consented four years which succeeded 'the total was 793 , 000 /., or more ' to recei ve suc h a fi nanc i a l s t a t ement as hidthat ni n nit been than double the amount put in in the antecedent years. That made. was also when an additionalrestriction was imposed with regard Mr. C. WOOD considered that the financial Arrangements to the amount of money to be deposited, and when the rate of ‘ of this cateary had not been vccy ably carried out, b u t b e did interest was reduced below its usual standard. A large portion a not think that the course taken by the Chan, Shur of the Ex.- of the whole amount returned was from the ordinary 'peopl e chequer was at all .likely to aceomphsh w bat he (th e Clan'- Who invested their money for the first time at these banks. No : edict'. of the Exchequer) said he led I;, view, viz., she assimi less than a million 0 1 con tributors have d e posited their mo ne y ! la , ion of the army and navy estimates. Under the present in thesesavings'-banks. There was another test of the comforts : mode of management, that was an end which would ne v ar lie Is.-ovie for th ;Wants of the country. of the people. Let us lock at the consumption of the ' attained. He did_ not think that the firancAl statement which sufficiently cap a ..at, and -where it Was . He thought there ought to he an explamaii,n he site po , nts was not the slightest reduction of any exeiseahle article ;on•so it not prom excise commodities. Let us take this in ;articular. There ;, had been deliverei i l se wa to s lor of the Exchequer was better able i; ' ' referred to. Willi regard to th - ' - ' " ' lie the contrary, malt, soap, sugar, beer, all on the increase, and so are all the other articles from the top of the ost to thehad i , e income from customs, he admitted that • bottom. Taking the power of consumption by the people and the Chenae the po wer o f ac c um u l a ti on , they would there find a test than any of them ta give . an estimate of what the future re of their increased comforts. With' respect to the moral habits c;ipts of the country . Tight ,. he i ; Still it was competent in of the peopl e , a ll c l asses i n different parts of the country were . them to express inn Dpi. ion otie data on which he founded much improv e d,' and th e returns laid upon the table of that ' his calculation. The Right Hon. entlernan deducted two- Houseshowed a decrease in the state of crime to the amount of fifths of the actual reduction made in the customs as the probable 7 per cent. I cannot refer to these statistical statements, but ' loss on this branch of the revenue next year, making the total I can say that the advantage is largely on the side of improve- ' revenue from customs 19,300,00 A Now, lie thought a san rnert. At any rate, it appeals that a good opportunity ! is e euine cab ulation had been made in this respect, and that in opened for in ves ti gat i on b y contrasting the state of the schoals ' stead of taking six weeks back, which was not a fair period for of these districts. From the return it appears that the num. 1 a calculation, he ought to have gone back , for a longer time. ber of persons educat e d in t hi s particular "lass of ' He (Mr. C. Wood) admitted that some of the calculations of schoolsis have , been in the proportion of five to two. This, it these relating to the post appears, the !lea year were correct, especially surest evidence that can be adduced on the subject, and shows - j officeand the excise , but it was not se on the estimate of cus the benefits of the moral advance which has been made in toms. If theexperience ' of the last year was applied to the this . I . country, and of the effects which are likely to result from it. I next, he considered the income fecal customs should not be There have been times in this country when there was a great I estimated at more than I S.80 1 )c , ::rl. The calculation of the advantage calculated from the building of fif ty c h urches ; and Right Hon. Gentleman was therefore ovrrstated. The whole this was adduced of the great benefits enjoyed by the lower or- expenditure of the year - • set lown at 51,GW,0001. ; whereas ders. But I. am happy to say that the interests of religion are he considered it wouldb ewaats least 0001.;t51,761. sti that, including not only advanced by the building of fifty churches in the course the China money, the t xpendiiure would be more of a series of years, but that it is promoted by the bending of than the total income b - 119,000/. ; and without fifty churches• in every consecutive year ; and lam fur- that money, 800,000/. He would go to another point, and Cher happy to say that this indication of the mo- that was to the policy. of the Ministryfor the present lean. He ral and the religious advance of the people is not considered the g reatest b enefits would result from the aitei a a transient advancedan evanescent advance, but a permanent and deci- tions that were now proposed in the tariff, and in the ado tion sive ; for there does not appear to be any ins'ance of of free trade. They would facilitate trade and co and this progress being actuated by capricious motives, but that the op e e r rate a b li e d n e eficiedly in giving employment to the people. Tim persons who are chiefly affected by it, are those to whom just 'h . of a.ed 500,07tOription, introduced into this country, had in such an advance is likely to be of the most service. And if I , •re s _ loads, and this must have tended to increase he employment of the, have satisfied you that these results are in the main part t• They had latterly badgood h ar sts and it was this, added to attributable to the policy which has been pursued, not haitily or `es ~ other circumstances which. so much rashly, but calmly and cautiously introduced, and working ' had occasioned _ prosperity. It would be found therefore great immediate, yet nevertheless, permanent. bles- that the increased consumption of the last few years sings. If, I say, we can trace them to these causes, is it not applied principally to articles of food, and this increased the strongest encouragement we could have, to pursue a course consumption could only in his opinion be anti fraught with such benefits; and here I cannot refrain from say. buted to increased prosperity in manufactures, whi c h gave ing, that I review with satisfaction the part which it has been so much employment to large masses of the community. my lot to take in ' these several measures, the result of which I ( Hear, hear.) The Right Ilonourable Gentleman the have had the pleasure of stating to you this night. Ought we Chancellor of the Exchequer had said they had a strong; not, then, to go on in the course which we have commenced? proof of the improved condition of the people in the In reducing the burdens on the people, and removing every- increase which had taken place in the excise duties. thing which can affect their comfort', and we will thus nlice on This increase, too, could be traced to the prevailing the strangest foundation, not merely the financial, or th i emit- prosperity of manufactures which he for one attributed mercial, but the general interests of this mighty country. to those liberal commercial measures which the House Mr. BARING could not help observing that he considered had recently adopted, and he was glad to find that the Right the course taken by her Majesty's Government was a departure Hon. Gentleman had began to propose a reduction in the from the general course of proceeding in matters of this kind. deferential duties on sugar, and other articles of home con- They had at the present moment to consider this practical sumption. Last year lie ventured to remonstrate against some question—What, after all that had been done, would be the of these duties, and he was rejoiced to find they were new to finances of the country ? They had at the moment to look be reduced, because he considered it would improve the com et their balance, and to consider whether the revenue would merce of the country, and at the same time place within the be sufficient to meet the annual expense, and with that view reach of the industrial classes articles of consumption, which he proposed to submit the figures of the Right Hon. Gentle- had hitherto been beyond their means. --( Hear, hear.) He man, who had addressed the House with great clearness, to therefore, hailed the Right Hen. Gentleman's declaration on some examination. He was glad, however, to find that the this point, as the first step toward, an improvement in this Right Hon. Gentleman had been educated in o pi n i ons w hi ch b ranch of the system, and he now looked forward with con he formerly opposed—( Hear, hear) —but he was surprised to fidence, and feeling of the liveliest satisfaction, to the day which find that, throughout his speech, but a small portion of his rs e- he hop e d, i n d ee d he felt sure, was net far di distant , when these marks, indeed, were devoted to what he considered the most duties would h ave to undergo a thorough• revision at the hands important point of all—namely, the surplus. It seemed to him of the Legislature. ----( Cheers. ) that he had the greatest pleasure in flying off from the financial Mr. CARDWELL said he felt great surprise at he • g matters of this year, and the advantages which the country Hon. Member opposite t a ki ng so gloomy a view of 'tl-anr.je the future.n would derive from a relaxed commercial policy. A great pressure h a d b een removed from the ' i n - The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had dustry, and the r esu lt s h ou l d be a sormos of great stimulus to trade and addressed himself to the subject. commerce. He begged to remind th e H on. Memberthat the Mr. BARING then went on to say—The balance than ap- Chancellor of the Exchequer had confined himself to the ex peered to be 776.000/. in favour of the Exchequer in China penses incurred within the year, and therefore the Govern_ money, in least such was the fact, if the Right Hon. Gentle- ment were only following up the course which they were war man had stated his account correctly. He should now be ranted in doing by all precedent ; and, if they had adopted any compelled to trouble the House with a few details, in order to other course, it would only have the eff ect o f creat i ng con, show that the Hon. Gentleman had not stated his account fusion. This was not a fair comparison. It was not fair to correctly. He would suppose a familiar case, that of a man say that the customs' duties last year had only realised having a house for which he paid 4 : 0 /• a-year rent.; if that 200,000/. For 200,0001. lie (Mr. Cardwell) would read and he would was paid quarterly, one of the tivarters coming due 2,000,0001., prove that this was correct. The in January of the ensuing year of course credit Hon. Member then read returns to prove this assertion. The would be taken in the preceding year, for only Hon. and Learned Member had taken his returns from docu three-quarters having been paid. Now this was the ments in which every allowance was made for a supposed case in respect to the accounts of the Right Hon, Gentleman, falling off in consequence of reduction, and therefore be was, so for he (Mr. Baring) found by the charge for the half-pay far, mistaken. But it was said that they must look to other military allowance of 434,00:4., that credit had been taken for quarters for their revenue. But the returns laid be-. only three-quarters of this year, which would throw the four lore the House showed that since the reductions in the quarters into the next year. He also found in the army esti- customs and excise consequent on the altera,ions of the tariff" mates that the expenditure had been understated by 208,000 n, the rev enue so f ar f rom decreasing, had been considerabl7 in' and the ordinance service by 290,0001., making half a million crea se d ; an d if t h ey st i ll more relaxed the springs of co,:ntn,rce-, upon those two items. Then the balance, including the China he was of opinion that a continued system of prosperity would money, had been estimated at 776,0001. ; but if that sum were be indu ce d, w hi c h wou l d in t i me coming add CO L' . Lirehappiness not taken into account, and if the sum of 860,000/. and comfort of the people. which had nut been estimated, should even be left Mr. WILLIAMS had expected that the :light lien. Gontle out, the actual balance would he hut 70,0001. man the Chancellor of the Exciteqeser would h ave no d e lie was not giving this as a blame to the Government. He had some considerable reductions in tee expenilit arc et the no reason to suppose that there would be an increase of those several departments, hut he had not (lone so. If estimates, but he would say, that if the Government were they looked at the charges of the naval, the anxious to perform their public duties in a proper manner, it military, and ordnance services, thee would find that as would be matter of impossibility to effect great reductions in compared with the American, the people were taxed at the the taxes, or in the collection of the revenue. If they looked rate of sixteen to three millions, and SO it vio s with every at the customs, for instance, they would find that the cost of other department. He found, for instance, that in the three collecting the customs was much the same under the present years following tne elevation of the present Almison to power, that it was under the old system, before they began these that there were no l ess than gait, new j-'aces created at changes. The cost of labour in the customs, and the salaries a cost of 225,01 M. He noted thst a sum of 149,5004,, to the officials there, were indeed the same, the reduction. was required for 113 of these ni w places. There was having been altogether effected in the superannuation. Hoe one point on which he was sure that her Majesty's Gentlemen might recollect, that on a former time th e y were Government must make a material reduction in the expendi told, that if there were too many changes their expenditure was cure, if they would follow the example which had been laid extravagant, but that the course pursued appeared necessary in down by France and all other Countries in the world. He order to keep up a perfect establishment. He believed that found, by a return made in 1842, that 6,7C0,00A Was, in the present estimates were larger than any that had ever be en the previous year, expended in the shape of salaries to the submitted to that House for similar services since 1n22. It officers employed in the Customs, Excise, Stamps, Post. might be unfair to charge Hon. Gentlemen opposite wiTh re- office, &c. No w , if these sums - were annually brought before suits which have possibly arisen from the course of policy pur- the House, to be voted for in the setae manner as were the sued by his Noble Friend beside him, and with those v. hi slow salaries of individuals employed in the army, navy, &e. there joined with him in office. He perfectly concurred ia the must necessarily be a great re d uct i on in their salaries ; anti wisdom, in the expediency, and in the justice of relaxii p. as of all other times, thia was the most appropriate to make such far as they could, the present restrictive duties; but if they reductions. At no time during the last thirty years was the were to say that the commercial prosperity of the country price of the article of food so low as at present. (luring the last few years was occasioned by the Right Hon. Mr. HUDSON said that at that late hour of the eveninr , Gentleman's tariff, then he (Mr. Baring) contended that he had no desire to trespass on the attention of the House ; they were perfectly mistaken if they alleged any such thing but he must beg leave to say that the Right Hon. Gentleman He certainly did think that the Right Hon. Gentleman would had, in the words of an lion. Mcm.lter, made a most serious have spoken much more mildly than he did with respect to the omission in his statemenn He did not think that the state past year. He thought that the Right Hon. Gentleman ment that had been made was one of the most satisfactory should have been a little more explicit in his explanations as to character, or that it should be regarded as a speech at which the income-tax.—( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman the country might feel grateful. Ile did expect that some tripped very dexterously into something about the policy which thing more would have been done for relieving the people from the Government had pursued, and now and then he made a sly taxation—that a speculative Ministry such as we had now hit at the individual who was then addressing the House.— would have reduced • the duty on tea, which was (Laughter.) He did not believe, although he was opposed to an article of such large consumption. The surplus the income-tax, that the Government would be in a situa'ion revenue had been expended in the internal improvements of the to take it off at the erd of the three years.—( Hear, hear.) country. The Right lion. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the He would not follow the Right Hon. Gentleman in the course Exchequer) had spoken with ranch self- congratulation on the of arguments which he had brought before the House, but prosperity of the last four years, and attributed that prosperity there was one point on which he could wish to have an explanan to himself and his colleagues, forgetting that abundant harvests tion from the Right Hon. Gentleman. The Right Hon. Gen- had much to do in the production of that prosperity. He should tleman had stated that he had increased his balance in the be called Mr. Prosperity Chancellor of the Exchequer. When Exchequer, and he should wish to show in what way that had he was a boy he was taught that " self-praise was no corn been done. The House was well aware that at the end of mendation." If the country had prospel std during the last four every quarter the surplus revenue was handed over to the Com- years, why did they seek to disturb that prosperity by the missioners of the National Debt for the purpose of reducing the adoption of the system of free-trade ? public debt. On looking at the accounts, he (Mr. Baring) The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to be found that in the years 1844 and 1845, they had a sum o I received on Friday. 1.6-0,000/. to be so applied. But he found that the Right The Highways and Coercion Bills were postponed until Hon. Gentleman had not handed over that sum for any such Monday, the 18th of June. purpose; he had, it would appear, appropriated it to the pur- The Poor-law Removal 13111 was postponed to Friday next poses of increasing his Exchequer balance, so that, prat- The House then adjourned till Friday next, tically, the money that was formerly herded over to the Commissioners appointed for the reduc tion of the National Debt was now handed over to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.—(Hear, hear.) He would not say that it was not perfectly right for the Right Hon. Gentleman to apply the surplus for such purposes, but he should have stated in his speech, that it was by those means that he had increased the balance in Exchequer. The policy of the Government with regard to free trade had been introduced by the Right Hon. Gentleman in the course of his speech, but he (Mr. Baring) conceived that that bad nothing to do with the budget, which was the proper subject of discussion that eveni ng. —( Hear, hear.) He believed, that if the statements had . been made correctly, it would be found, that instead of their berg re a surplus in the revenue of the country during the past year, he . was really a deficiency of 700.000 L He was afraid .. that..T.47 too sanguine in his anticipations Right Hon. Gentleman was tar . t. as to the results of the commercial policy of the Government. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. in explination, said that with regard to the first question of the Hon. Mem ber, as to the mode in which the accounts of the army and navy were made out, the present system had been found to be by far the best. With regard to the other question, viz., that about the handing over the surplus to the Chancellor of the Exchequer instead of to the Commissioners for the Reduction o ftheNa tional Debt, it was certainly true that the surplus was applied for the purpose of increasing the balances of the exchequer. But the principle was not a new one. He believed it was the system pursued by the present Government's predecessors in office. The opinion of the Honourable Member as to the expenditure of the present year was no doubt true. (Hear, hear.) The reason why the surplus was handed over to the exchequer was tolerably obvious. When the balances of the exchequer were small the government was obliged very often to borrow money from the Bank. But by, increasing their balance they rendered them selves independent of the Bank, and relieved themselves from the many difficulties which would attend the borrowing of money from that establishment for public purposes.—( Hear.) Mr. HUME thought the Government had acted • h rig t in endeavouring to make themselves independent of the bank. With reference to the reduction in the taxation of the country, he attached great importance to it. He would be glad to see indirect taxation removed altogether, and a direct tax upon property or income imposed in its place. He believed that the measure in progress would tend to the benefit of this country. He blamed no man for changing his opinion when he changed e from bad to good. With regard to the expenditure and th revenue he thought they were of a highly gratifying nature . If he had any complaint to make, it would be that f 'i keepingthat w as up a large establishment in time of peace; of perh aps heir He necessary in oider to preserve the peace _ country. other articles would considered that restrictions on food and .. be injurious to the revenue. The revenue might be increased by a removal of the duty o n tea; the comforts o ti e populati on would be increased , a nd the trade h with China strengthened. Now, , se understood, smuggling had not been dimini s hed, and he had to complain that the Government, after reduc ingduties on 600 articles, had not reduced their cus tomhouse the . onohouse establishment. The country comp] oiled of the cost t which that establishment entailed. But the reason was, as soon as the post of a CommistiOner of Customs became vacant, there was a general ruse to have it filled up, and this was a course of which the country had a right to com plain. The duty on the stalks of tobacco, which were largely used in this country for the purpose of making snuff, was 2,600 per oent. ; and he considered if they removed all these duties, they might reasonably reduce the custom-house de partment. Lord G. BENTINCK said he could not object to the estimate for the army or navy, for when they recollected the expression of Mr. Calhoun, in the American Senate, he did not think any reasonable objection could be made against them. But he considered the surplus of 773,000/. was rather a narrow one, when they considered that it was made in the face of all Thu following distinguished personages hare visited the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens during the last few days :—Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland, .Lady Holmesdale, Lady 11. Clive, Miss Clive and party, his Grace the Duke of Marlborough. Duke of Beaufort, Lord A, Churchill, Marquis of Blandford, Lord Shelbourn f, Lord A. } 'itzclarence, Lord Mahon and family, Earl of Wicklow and party, Lord Portman and sons, Count Bethany, Sir H, Hunloke, Lord Prudhoe, &c. FUNERAL OF LORD GLENLEE.-The funeral obsequies of the late venerable Sir William Miller, Bart., of Glenlee, took place on Tuesday. From the universal esteem in which his Lordship was held by the surrounding gentry, and the paternal and friendly character which he ever sustained towards his tenantry, the attendance was vast, all anxious to bestow the last melancholy tribute of respect on one who had so endeared himself while living. The procession started from Barakimming house at two o'clock P.M. The cavalcade, extending to about a quarter of a mile, proceeded by the direct road to Stair Churchyard, a distance of three miles. At every tarn of the way it was joined by crowds of eager spectators, who, before reaching the burying-ground, had accumulated to a vast concourse. On arriving at the churchyard gate the hearse and two carriages drove into a wide avenue leading from the road, while the undertaker, to preserve order, caused the remainder of the carriages to pass on, the occupants alighting from them as they approached the gate. Those who had left the carriages then joined with the crowd on foot, and formed two lines from this point to the vault, between which the coffin, followed by the relatives, was borne on the shoulders of the ushers to its resting-place. The pall-bearers were—head cord, John Miller, Esq., his Lordship's son ; foot cord, Sir William Miller, his Lordship's grandson ; right shoulder cord, Captain Miller, brother to Sir William; left shoulder cord, Mr. James Miller, jun.; right centre cord, Mr. Hamilton, Glasgow; left centre cord,-Rey. Mr. Rorrison ; right third cord, a relative; left third cord, Dr. Monolson. The coffin was deposited, by th e pall. bearers, in a niche in the vault. After the dinner about 200 poor people were liberally served at the house. His Lord ship is succeeded in his title and estates by his grandson, now Sir William Miller. Bart., of Glenlee.—Ayr Advertiser. INTOLERANCE IN THE AMERICAN ARMY. —The army of the United States, under the command of General Taylor in Texas amounts to nearly 7,000 men, and or this number 4,000 are Romer* Catholic.. iVhen men are in daily expectation of taking the Relit against an enemy, and exposing their lives to the danger of death, it may be naturally supposed that intolerance, however savage at other times, would then reient and respect the conscientious feelings of fellow-creatures placed ins situation so Impressive. Such has not been the fact in Texas, for the Catholics In the army in that new state, in disregard of constitutional rights, and in defiance of their unanimous protestation, have been force II to attend d o know timeprea th ch e igof a Presbyterian clergyman on Sundo - s t They uh sum mary method of treating a soldier charged with a violation of orders will he able to appreciate the hardship to which the Catholic soldiers are exposed by officers sworn to maintain a constitution which pro fesses to respect the conscientious scruples of its citizens. Even in the English army such tyranny as this is unknown. At Übe very thee that this contempt for the rights ef the Catholic soldier is so boldly avowed in Texas, General Taylor publishes an address to the army, in which he particularly Impresses on his soldiers to avoid the slightest disrespect to the person, the property, or religion of,the Mexican people ! At the very time he is forcing the Catholic soldier to act in violation of his cotscienee, he affects to be p articularly re spectful to the Catholic Mexican ! __CalhOlie Telegraph (Cineinnatti). GLASGOW.—Last night a serious riot took place in the lower part of high-street, Trongate, and the Gallowgate, originating it is understood, in the disorderly conduct of a number of soldiers be longing to the regiment recently arrived in the city. In the course 01 a few minutes a great many were engaged in it actively, -and thousands in a very excited state were adding to the crowd. liar. cameron, Lieutenant, who has charge of the police farce ill a in the. t s fence of the sup er i ntendent i n London, proccedetyseeadtene head of a stro ng b o d y of men, and f ortuna tely nc the riot, whicßhad assuredly presented for atline a most alarmin g aspect. Some of the officers of police and m any other persons a d ea l hurt. Five of the soldiers were apprehended.—Glaspog• Herald Of Monday, MR. WARNER'S INVENTION. In answer to a quesiioi. from Lord IN GESTRE, Sir R. PEEL consented to lay upon the table of the House papers connected with the invention of Mr. Warner. The Right Hon. Baronet laid theca on the table at once, and ordered them to be printed. RETIREMENT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. The RIGHT HONOURABLE BARONET said, in answer to a question from Sir Charles Napier, th he under stood that unless a certain number of officers applied to be in cluded in the regulation, the Admiralty would have the power to deal with it accordingly. He did think it would be desira ble, when the House should go into a Cimmittee of Supply. to take up the navy estimates first, and he would have no objec tion to such a course COURTS OF LAW. Captain POLHILL moved for a return of the number of the writs of summonses issued out at the high courts of law, namely, the Queen's Bench, the Com ton Pleas, and the Ex chequer, of pleas between the 10th day of November, 1845, and the 10th day of May, 1846 ; and also, the numbers issued out of the same courts in the parallel six months of the five preceding years ; also, the Bil:s filed in the Courts of Equity during the same periods of time, distinguishing each year. Agreed to. Lord G. BENTINCK said he would wish to a ask a question of the Right Honourable Baronet, which at first, might seem to impugn the truth of a statement made by a Noble Lord in another place—he meant Lord Dalhousie ; but, however, he had sineo, had such representations made to fnin as had entirely re moved the possibility of such an imputation. lie now referred to the policy of this country as it affected the interests of the Canadas The Noble Earl was understood to say that the Canadians viewed with a perfect feeling of satisfaction the ge neral policy of her Majesty's Ministers ; and, so far from en tertaining any feeling of apprehension and alarm, he stated that all they asked was, that the nominal duty of Is , which was proposed to be retained on Canadian and other wheat, should be reduced to one penny. This was the statement which was im puted to the Earl of .Dalhousie; and he (Lord George Ben brick) must say that he had heard the statement with his own ears. Now, the question he wished to ask was, Whether or not the Canadians had determined by a vote of their Legis lative Assembly to address her Majesty against the measures of her Ministry ? The first paragraph of that address was in form something like this :—" hat the Hou-e viewed with the most serious apprehension and alarm, and as detrimental to the future peace and pri.sperity of the Colonies, the adoption of the proposed principle of commercial intercourse now under the consideration of the. Imperial Parliament." That such an address had been unanimously voted he had the best reason for knowing, inasmuch—( The Noble Lord was here called to order. ) Well, then, the question he had to a k of her Alajesty's Ministers was whether or no, when that state ment was made by a Cabinet Minister of the Crown, he was not in possession of the information to which he Lord George Ben'inck) had now referred ? He wished to know ohs her that Minister was not in possession of the address when he knew that it would be unanimously voted by the Legislative Assembly of Canada, expressive of sentiments like those which had been embodied in the paragraph he had read to the House. _ . _ Sir ROBERT PEEL said that he would with pleasure lay all the info. mation he was in possession of before the Noble Lord. He had yesteiday made an appointment with the Sec retary for the Colonies fr r one o'clock this day, and when 'his ?tight Hon. Friend attended he showed to him (Sir R. Peel) a letter from Lord Cathcart, containing the address of the Cana dian House of Assembly, which he was bound to acknowledge expressed the apprehensions of the Assembly as to the conse quences that might follow the adoption of the commercial measures of the Government. He understoo I his Right Hon. Friend then to say that that communication had only reached him in the course of the morning. He (Sir R Peel) did not know that such a communication had arrived until two o'clock this day. If even he had thought it possible that Lord Dalhousie should have had earlier information than he had, he had yet the assurance that the Net)le Lord was aware of i he receipt of this communication at the period at which he spoke last evening. When dispatches came, it was impossible that all members of the Government should receive the information simultaneously ; some time must elapse before all the members of the Government were aware of the contents In answer to a question put by Mr. CHRISTIE, Sir J. GRAHAM said that the repast would be laid upon the table after the recess. POOR-LAW REMOVAL. Lord J. RUSSELL wished to know when his Hon. Friend who sat behind him (Mr. E. Denison) would make the motion of which he had given notice in a more specific character ? Mr. E. DENISON stated his intention to place upon the Notice-book several notices which would have the effect of making his motion more specific and more accurately defined. He intended to propose that, in case of any pauper requiring to be supplied with relief, the relief shall be administered in the union, and not in the parish of such union ; and that the amount of the ex; cute consequent upon this should be de frayed by a fund levied on each parish. and that these expenses shall be borne in proportion to the expenses incurred in such parish during the last five or seven years; and that the debts already incurred, with interest due upon the same, shall not be RUSSIA G I OI N such ERNMENT AND THE PORTE. affected by Dr. I.,IOee‘nVRING inquired whether any treaty had been signed bet the Russian foGreoi‘g'enrnnmaetni andnations, the Po!te, equal ising the duties p aid b y under the existing tite di-advantages under which Bri ciasPhsuuibleirta' andhave removinglab ()il ed. Sir it PEELthre°ll)llutistatnhastiihneisteexr.pected shortly to have an hADDRESS FROAI CANADA. of the address from to t he proposed al terations of Canada, in reference interviewthe Le l g l i ' i i a rvt BurEeNTINCK asked . if a . copy 1 have not got the address. Lord G. Sir R. PEEL — NICK said he had it with him, and would the tariff had been laid on - the table. Hon."'Baronet. (Considerable merriment hand it to the Right Lord G in . viEN, eo wof the document in hie the Right Hon. Baronet a 1 j NI YORKSHIRE was excitement from the Noble Lord stepping down and giv questlen.) or the return itlr, LAWSON rose to move that a THE PRICE OF POTATOES 1. I e variousmarke t highest price of potatoes per bushel in " • s to May 23' towns in Yorkshire fr r the seven months previiu tts46 ; also, a similar return Southwark and Westminster. He said he was fully aware that this motion every Hon. Member, was not palatable to • . . ef the highest prices still, as he had been deprived of the opportunity of milting I on the previous evening, when it was down for pr posal. he 1 .iu Lood,e,rne, was rieter m ,, ed to avail him:elf of the present opportunity to bring it forward.. He should then proceed to O'er to , lie House that exp:anati,in e r ra N , v tier vindication, of a statement tinhethuatouti,iutL, a h ha e d h s a t d at m ed ad to e I vo: in Yorkshire hail sent up When on a former occasion he potatoes to London and that 1 : turned to Yorkshire for want Of sale , r" o tha w t as of erwards re received with incredulity, or he might say derision.a.sertion had be -n time he had code the asset tion. he had had ari Since the making an investigation such as wa s necessary toopicmoirity of statement, and he did not rise then f or t h e purpose of ri a r l in ei t his s,ny single word he had saiu, but he rose Ila a rd er to confirm r every n g single one et them, and he would say. confidently that he te as prepared with alp dv-s and other things necessary to bri g under their consideration. He felt the' kindness of the House in allowing him to pater - upon an y j isplaintipp ? and he ohould therefore couarte himself 4trictl,