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PARLIAMENT. DOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, MAY 11. Mr. Alderman Woof) presented a Petition for lull to remove Slaves from the island of Antigua to Sierra Leane.—Otdered to be referred to a Committee. Mr. Tilt , . MAYNE present - e+l a Petition from Corn w•a4l, praying tar an inquiry into the Agricul tural Di3tress of the Country.—Ordered to be printed. NEW POST-OFFICE. Sir W. Cut:Tt• moved that the Report of the Committee on the application for additional n►eans to go ou with the New Post•ollice, should be referred to a Committee of /he whole llouse. ;Ir. 11. S Nt tt reminded the hose that the sum of 240,0001. had already been expended in (fearing a sre for the New Post Office ; and now those who bad dime this wanted 100,0001. more, out of which 33.0001. was to be spent in debts already contracted, mill the sum called for was to tie (Ih-fi t ted on the Orphans' Fund. Thar F o od lii' id by a tax On coals and etilm btooght to the font Of L o ndon. A duly of I3s 41, was thus paid nu every chaldrou of coals, and thcs the 100,0001. would add alio' her shilling. The esti mates on which the 240,0001. had been expended be had objected to at the time, but it bad been contended that tilt y Isere must accurate ; and now on the authority of those oho had trained them, aid who hi) ptoved out in their calcula tions by neatly forty per ceiv., they were called t ipoti te, seittelion the raising of another 100,0001. lie 0101 , 01 the !loose would ill do its duty it it itterred the Repoli before it to a Committee of ti.e whole lion-c, while the details could not be examined ; be tbeiefore moved as an amendment, tkat it should be reteried to a 'elect Committee to examioe the accounts of the expeneitute al ready in.ctirred ; and the estimates 011 which the additional 100,0001. was !Nulled. Sir TV. Cosecs believed every regard to econo my had been had in dispostog of the 240,0001. that Lad been expended, but unfortunately, as hap pened in many other cases, the money woold not go far enough. There was now, he believed, some 30 or 40,0001. to be paid, but the business having gone on so ler, ought not to stop where it was at present. . ides Alderman Woon said, the [lon. Member for Surrey, on this as on many other occasions, had taken - care to speak of the heavy duty oil coals, which was paid to the Orphans ' Food, and bad said the 100,0001. now proposed to be tai,ed, would add to the burden of which be complained. Now the heavy duty complained of by the Hun. Member, as about to be imposed, might cost his constituents one shilling a head extra on their coals,, but it would not he till thirty-three years 'hence. This burden would ,be incurred, to give the people of Starry, as well as,the people of the city, the benefit of a grand thoroughfare to the North road. To the Orphan.' Fund, he must remind the Hon. Member, that the Corporation of the City of Loudon paid every year, while the tax on coals eolith:tied, 12,0001. out of their estates, so they were the only party that suffered 'materially front the duties so It - Nut:tidy made the subject of complain , . Alter a few words from the Chancellor of the Excherper, - the ;3pralier, and Mr. 11. Sumner, Sir W. Curtis withdrew his motion, and the report was orderer' to he referred to the Elp.• poitr ed to examine the accounts ColilleCted with this subject. Iwo Petitions were presented front the Agri culturists of Dorsetsbire, complaining of the dis tressed state of the Agricultural lotetest, and praying, for an enciniry into the same.—Ordered to lie on the table. Petitions were also presented on the same sub ject Aierom I'Varwickshirc, the nL ighbourhood of Feversham, Ashborne, and from vatious parts of liient.7--Oidered to lie on the table. FOURTH BARON of the EXCHEQUER in SCOTLAND. The CLIANCRLLOR of the EXCHEQUER begged to ask the Noble Lold (Lord A. Hamilton) if he would put off his motion which stood for this day, on the subject of the appointment of a ,Fourth Baron of .the Exchequer in Scotland, on account of the absence of a Noble Friend of his, who was. then unavoidably absent, and who, it was not ex pected, would be able to come down to the House , to-morrow, but who would probably be in his. place on iNinnday. Lord A. HAMILTON said, be would acquiesce in the request of the ',tight lion. Gentleman, but he trusted the motion would on Monday he al- , lowed to take precedence of other business. The CHANCELLoR of the EXCHEQUER thanked the Noble Lord for his acquiescence, and said,: as far as depended on Ministers, there would be no objection to his motion taking precedence. Lord A. HAMILTON had wished for the produc-' lion of a copy of the appointment, and this he un-. tlerstood, the Learned Lord (the Lord Advocate) hail no objection to give. Others, however,.he lad since learnt, might object to its b;:ing given, end be should, therefore, frame his resolution so, that with the general question on the merits of the case, it should embrace the production or ron-production of that paper. He begged to say, it -the Noble Lord shoul►t not be - in his place on ?dontlay, he gave no promise to consent to the further postponement of the motion. Admiral Llitlt VEY presented a petition for di. viding the Quarter Sessions bet Ween Chelmsford and Ipswich.—Ordeted to be referred to a Com nAttee. DUTY ON WOOL. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a Petition from certain MMManu►acturing Villages in the County oh *Yolk, stating the great distress under which they laboured, anti imputing that distress to the late duty on wool, lie would read certain passages from the Petition. The persons who had signed the present Petition were well affected to the pre sent order of things. Ile then read a part of the Petition, which stated the distress known in Clat part, tram want of employment for the poor, to he - great beyond example. nom an accurate inquiry msde, it appeared there were no fewer than 1700 persons, who, front the com meneeinent of the present year,.had not been cble to obtain on the average more than I Id. per week. :Clic petition, which was from the tlercbants, Traders, and principal Inhabitants of iti , keaton, iu the County of York, was then brought up and read. It prayed for inquiry into the eitistint die tress, with a view to relieve the same.—Ordered to be printed. ELECTION PETITIONS. The SPEAKER having inquired if there were any Election Petitions to be presented, no less than twenty were immediately given into tilt hands of the Cleik. Of these, Petitions from Bishop's Castle and Truro being for double returns, were fixed to be first taken into consideration; the ap pointment of the others was determined by lot. They stand as follow : Bishop's Castle, Tuesday, May 30. Truro Thursday, June I. Petersfield. Tuesday, June G. Ipswich, Tuesday, June 13. St. lies, Thursday, June IS. Nottinghani,Tuesday, June 20. Westminster, Tuesday, .tune 20. l‘laidshme, Thurbday, June 22. Cambridge, Thursday, June 22. Colche•tr, Tuesday, June '27. ounen June 27. Thursday, Julie 29. Coventry, Thursday, Julie -29. (4ranthato, Tuesday, July 4. Chester, Tuesday, July 4. Wallingford, Thursil.ie, July 6. Aberdeen, Thiirsd,,.J al)• A ldhorntu;h, Tuesday, July 11. Bussiney, "fuesday, July 11. Tregouy, ThurNday, July 13. LONDON BRIDGE. Mr. Alderman Woon gave notice, that he would to-morrow move for the appointmeat of a Com fiti tee t o inquire into the 5 / 4 ite of London Bridge. Mr. Daw sot.. presented a Petition from Mir. V. Blake, setting forth that Mr. Pi endergast not having taken his ,•eat,•and •Petitioner not know ing his address, had 'Oar. been able to serve him % , ith the notices necessary to b:t served, where a return was contested. [het efore prayed that he time for entering into his recognizant:es might be enlarged, or some other step taken that the House might think Flt.• On the motion of Mr. W. WYNN, the re , :ohn ion come to by the House telative to Contested Oct:- lions on the I lth February, ISI9, was . read by the Clerk. The Agent For the Prosecution was than called in, and examined - by the Speaker. He stated his name to be William Green, and that he- was agent to Mr. V. Blake.—lie was then ordered to withdraw. Mr. DAwsost moved that further time should be granted to Ale. V. Blake to give the notices required, till Monday se'nnight. The motion was agreed to. EXCHEQUER BILLS. Mr. MABERLEY reminded the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that last June he had proposed to the House a plan fur raising the Sinking Fund front 2,000,0001. to 5,000,0001. To effect this the Right Hon. Gentleman had proposed several taxes, many of which pressed heavily on the middle and lower classes, one of which, thought it did not immedi ately press upon them, was ultimately felt most severely by those classes—he meant the tax on Wool, by taxing the raw material on which, when imported, marty of our manufacturers svere usefully employed, and the bower classes . greatly injured. The Right Honourable Gentleman had been told that his taxes, as they pressed on the poor, who were unemployed, must tail. But he (th e Chancellor of the Exchequer) had been o f a different opinion, For the failure that had since taken place be did not blame the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as he was confident that he was sincerely anxious to see the revenue in a flourishiug condition ; but he' was a little sin . - ptised that he should ciente down as h e h a d done in February, when he knew that th e ~e w duties, from the state of the exports and imports,. had failed ; the exports having failed to the amount of 600,0001., the imports to uo less than 10,000,0001 , and state that he expected to have a clear Sinking Fond of 5,000,0001. H e must .have known that the state of tire exports and im ports would in a great measure determine whe ther the new taxes would be productive or not, yet he bad declared that he expected the Sink lug Fond, on which he had previously calcu lated, when he knew that these had failed.— , The , revenue. in the year ending January 5, 1S 20, ,that was the produce of the year 1819, had been such, when set against the expendi tnre,4t left but a balance of 919,3401. for a Sink ing Fund. Lle was not sure that time would be so ,much, for taking other cif cumstances ,into consideration (which lie particularized) it would appear that there would remain bat a ba lance 01 395,316,1. At the time the statement was ,wade it was very,mnchdoUbted by the lion. Mem ;ber for Wihelliksea. Now, instead of 5,000,0001. was clear that the Right Hon. Gentleman would have a very little Sicking Fond, or none. The re venue of Great ,Britain appeared to have fallen off ;considerably in the last year, as compared with the ,premling,yese. The ,produce of the year ending :the sth April, 1819, had been. 49,050,0001. That for the year,codiN4 Aptil 5„1820, was 48,20,909 i. it would thereforc,b,e seen , drat there was a deti. cieney of Ito les,s than' 838,3881., and including the falling off on account of Ireland, be doubt eel not the total deficiency would exceed 1,000,0001. It was of impottance that the House should have their attention directed to this sub ject. It was also to be remarked, that the on footled debt bad not been diminished, thOugh a large sum had been voted for that purpose last year. it would be seen, that of Exchequer Bills issued between the sth Jan. 1819 and 1820, there were Bills outstanding to the amount of 9,698,0001. notwithstanding 10,400,0001. bad been voted by the House to reduce the Unfunded Deist. The Right Honourable Gentleman had taken the sum of 2,000,0001. on account of the in terest of Exchequer Rills, but for the last twenty-one or twenty-two months, the bitterest on them had not been paid, and in the present year it appeared that ioterest to the amount of 1,100,0001. remained unsatisfied. It must be clear to every one, that if it was intended to maintain the public credit, the interest on Exchequer Bills must he paid. He did hot know that there had ever been so great an arrear on Exchequer Bills before, How this could he made a palt of our permanent system he could not understand; he would rather that it should o n ly b e t e mporal y• — He objected to -the calls made on the Bank for advances to cover the deficiencies of the consoli , dated Fund. If this practice were sanctioned by '.the the Contolida'ed Null, it tnig;it be vxpe . cred, wool(' always he found in arrear. If the Revenne went on as it was going on now, at the end of .the July quarter there would probably be a deficiency of 2 000,0001. ; and this would make it convenient to call on the Bank for new ad vances. At a future period, front the Bank brine obliged to pay in gold, or other circumstances, they might be unable to meet these demands, the consequences would be serious, and therefore he considered it most dangerous to pursue the course of which be complained—that of co vering the arrears of the Consolidated Fund by advances from the Bank. To him it ap peared necessary to meet in earnest the difficulties of the country not by taxes, that must fall on the lower classes of the commit nity, or on the raw materials of the manufactures, which must throw them out of employ, but by a solid tax oil property. If a tax to the amount of 10,000,0001. were raised on real property and the As:essed Taxes given tip, this would be a boon to the middling classes, who were at present severely burdened. It ever there was a period when pro prrty could be fairly taxed it was the present. Could any mail say that there was any compari son between the price paid for corn now, and that for which it alight be purchased if the ports were open Supposing - the effect of the pr e sent system to impose but an itddi•ion of 1/. per quar- ter, and taking the annual coasumption of corn at fifteen q u arters, here was a tax of 15,000,0001. paid not to the Government but to th e corn g lowers. The landed proprietor who shared this, and the stockholder, and the-possessor of every other sort of property, ought to be taxed, if Itteesilllist be raised, as cer tainly they must, unless it were thought prudent to give up our puhlic credit, which he did not suppose would be thought good policy. The As sessed Taxes tniglo amoeet to 7,000,0001.-.... by Property Tax 10,000,0001. might be raised. But when he spoke of a Property Tax, he did not mean an Income Tax. That he detested as meet! as any one Could do. He would not lax trades, professions, and income, but property and pro petty alone. This he thought, in the present stale of the country, was necessary, and he could see e no other way out of our thflicellies. He ilionght that, in the first instance, economy ought to be resorted to in every possible shape. Last year the Chancellor of the Exchequer Chad given them reason to hope that some inqury into the drawbacks and bounties, which came to so large an amount, would take place. Out of (12,000,0001. annually raised, but 52,000,0001. foetid its way into the Exchequer, the other 10,000,0001. being consumed in expellees of collection, in drawbacks and bounties. He concluded 'by movisig for tic ' counts of all Exchequer Bills and Irish 'Treasury Bills outstanding on the sth Jauttary, 1820, with the interest due thereon, separating the amount of the interest from the principal of each. • The CHANCELLOR 01 the EXCHVOVER salt!, though he had no doubt that- a great curiosity to know the financial measures intended by Ministers existed, yet he did not think he should discharge his duty to the country by laying at present a ge neral view of that subject before the House. H e would, however, [twice one or two !mhos urged by the Hon. Gentleman. He (Mr. Moberly) thought that the taxes of last year tailed in their produce. There were, in the accormis which ley on the Table, I. an account of the Excise Duties in England for the three quarters, comtneneing the sth Jitly, 1819, and _ending the sth April, 1820. A long Credit was given for a very considerable part of the taxes imposed last year. Upon the Malt Duty a credit of five months was given, ausl longer credit on other Duties, so that ran actual account of their proceeds could not as yet be made out. The Excise Dirty for the whole year was 2,910,0001. and the actual charge of the Duty in England alone, for three quarters, ending the sth April last, was 1 921,0001. being less than a million short of the estimate in Itelernd and England the whole year. It might be asked, how then did it happen that a deficiency in the whole Revenue existed % In the October quar ter there was a falling off of more than a mil lion in the new Duties; but that might be attri buted to temporary causes. In the course of the present year the Customs, as well as the Excise; would produce the full amount, excluding the new Duties and allowing fur the part trans ferred. The Hon. Gentleman complemed of the non-payment of the interest of the Exchequer Bills, but the Hoo. Gentleman knew that th e prin cipal and interest were paid together, and that in terest accumulated until such payment was Made. The Hon. Gentleman had spoken of the deficiency in the five millions proposed last year, but the Hon. Gentlemen must remember, that in February last he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) did not hold out the expectation that the five millions could trereelieed.within the present year. lie would offer. no opposition to the motion of the Honourable Gentleman. Mr. J. SMITH agreed withehe Right Hon. Ge ntleman, that no mentions of the intended financial measures ought to be now made ; and he knew his Hon. Friend who made the Motion did not intend to elicit any thipg of that kind front the Right Hon. Gentleman. present situation of our finances had tie injurious effect upon the Revenue, and nothing was so likely to check that as a perseverance in some solid mode of Finance s but as •1011;:: as the present unsettled state of our finances existed, so long would these reports and alarms exist. As to the tax proposed by. his Hon .Friend, he would say, he worth, have no objec tion, provided other taxes were given up. \Veen the guest ion of Finance for the year cause under discussion, he hoped a tax would be iesposed upon those who could pay, and he would have too ob jection to the shape in which it would be imposed. Considerable alarm had existed for the last three months, and he hoped something likely to afford security to the cottony woold he adopted. Mr. Beeteo said, he hoped the finances would he placed in a state of intleneudepee sit.rilar to fo reign countries. He thought a great deal of the existing di:trust arose from the estimates,laid be lute the House since the Peace. It was impos sible for any man to lay before the House any statement to be idled lowa as to the resources of .the country, because since the peace the country was in a tOtite of decline. The means molted to for obtaining Money from abroad were tea:ly eretittahie. guch theanS Wei-e ridt tegr‘dteti td 3 0:1' commercial men except in cases of great comp; gency. He, hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would have no objection to state to the House did, amount of such grants. The CHANCHLLOII Of the lYackiscitma said, that these grants were raised upon available funds, but it would take some time before these funds could he made applicable with the most advantage. A few mon:lis would be sufficient to wind up the ac counts, and he would then be most anxious to (JO all in his power to satisty the House. Mr. GRRNVELL said, he was aware that consi derable quantities of silver, for which grants were made, had been imported into this country, dirt not think it improper to wait the time men' tinned by the !tight Hots. ()cutleman. Mr 4 Battitso said, the Right Hon. Gentleman mistook if lie thought that he (Mr. B.) asked tot an account of the money outstanding yn the Cun' tinent. There could be no ground for grtnts three month.s' sight upon the Treasury of Eng.* ;and. Sir J. NEWPORT said, he thought that species of property which was increased by the present system of finance, ought to hear part of the bor.- . then ; and be would, therefore, object to a Pro perty Tax which did not include funded property'. He thought stoci,holders had the value of their property increased, because they a d Vaneed in 5 depreciated wha't they were now paid in an ame liorated rerrency. Mr. Itheeeee said, in proposieg that tee, he . bad no reference to stockholders ; he meant t(i say, that the tax 511.1i1d tall upon tee proper y of the country at large: He did l e o ( e o tefi ; alo the estimates of the Right Hon. Gentleman, .be cause lie thought it impossible for any person to give an estimate which could be relied upon ; but he complained or the Right lion. Gentleman com ing down to the House in Febrile' y last, amt. making the statement which he then suede, whets lie well knew, that, notwithstanding the new ditties, there was a deficiency of 600,0001. in the Revenue up to the sth of January. He :ve4.14 appeal to the Hoose, if any expiession of his Was calculated to make the Right Hon. Gentleman believe, that lie wished hint to ~ li/,close one wort' respec ing future meastries. Comparing the produce imp to the sth of April, 18 . 20, , ith lire produce of the years ending April 17 and 18, there was really a deficiency of- coI millioeS, because the Right Hon. Gentleman admitted he had re ceived one cuillion of the new duties, and yet there' was upon the whole a deficiency of a did not say a word.of the amount of the Revenue charged, but of what had been paid into the tree surf. •He was aware that a indium had been - tranlferied to the Excise, but halt a million hail been added by a consolidation of the CisStom.;, and yet the Customs were going on as badly Les in the last year. _ '1; he SPEAKER then put the question, which was carried in the affirmative, and the Accouuts w'ere accordingly ordered. IRISH CIVa. LN.T. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEGICTER brought up. an Estimate of the Charge ft( Nlaiesty's Civil List it, he ittld Papers relati've to the nlitICS on Wool. .NAVY ESTI M ATES. Sir GEORGE CIAItiKE brought up the Navy Estimate 4, which vicie ordered to,bc primed. ARUIS• Lord PALMERSTON hroug•itt up Estimate‘ fur th.e Army Ser% ice for toe ellsoing yv,tr,vvioe.l) were ordered to be printed. coNso LI DATED FUND. Mr. LUSIIING . I 0:s; brought up an Account of the F,xrett ditup; of Ow Cunsolidittcd Fowl, whiett wits ordtied lu tto oil the Tahte. (MIMI' OF EXCHEQUER CHAMI;EII, Sir Cv.-I,IIZ-LES OIt..ANT broii4tit in a 13iIt for tto: borer ad j uiwistriition of Justice in.the Court of 14:xcilegi:er Chatobo,. Ireland. Atter a few words from Sir .1. NEWPORT and Sir C. GltArs. , l', tlu• Bill wal read a ficht time, ordered to iTO reatl'a second bore to-morrow. 'lie other Orders of the 1)..y were then disposed vf, and the House adjourned at seven o'clock. CATHOLIC CHAPEL, I‘loolll , lhLP3.—Yesterdßl being Holy n Atirsf.ay, a diry of plirrico+r flevo tion in the Catholic Church, this place was e d by many of (hr- y, and other munificent Patrons of the Arts, who hnve expresst-cl their !-- miration of this simply elegant structure, an , 1 the beautiful fresco painting which adorns the ceil.tig and altar-piece. The superb altar or -stattiiirp , marble is tidily Feulpsured, and for the chaste—. ness of its -design,. met particular attention, and continues to attract the daily attention of the Yesterday being Ascension Thursday, according to annual custom, the churchwardens, overseers," beadles, and charity childien, in the several pa.- rishes within the City of London, Borough of .Southwark, etc. walked in procession with white wands in their hands, banners flying, and bands of music, went round the bounds of their respec.- live parishes, according to ancient usage, after which they partook of their annual feast. A Gentleman of the name of SPIINCP R, a thew., meal amateur, performed Captain Bertram its The: Birth Dail, on Friday last, at the Exeter Theatre. During the rehearsal, he was taken with a In of the gout in both his feet, was °Wig ( ' to be carried to the Theatre in the evening, atia. performed the character on his own crutches in 0 . more figlini way than it had ever before beef . n' pourtrayed. 13111:114. On the Sib itn4tatrt, at Siqbnhirth, the L.a-dy of Calitain Tb° l * Gallwcy, of a daughter. MARRIED. Yestenlav, :it Lewisham Church, Risharti Warincx. '4O St. Ilary Cray, to 'Mary Cecilia, second daughter of Thole" ot,St. Mary Cray. DIED. At the Not Weiis, Bri , ito4, of a rapid decline; aged 26) ' `Thomas, second son , of - the late Sir Thomas Burgbe, ar: and broil,er to the Cousitess of Glum iearkie and Viscout3tes • Strangfoial. On Monday last, at his seat of Fletan Loilge, nr L eeds' o Gen. George B a ernrd, Coionel of his Majesty"s 84th Regt. On Tuesday, the 911' instant, at his seat at Lang1 , 1 5, .. r . 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