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CARROLL requests the attention of the }woic to the State of the Wheel, which is exceedingly rich in Capital Prizes, containing • • • 4 3 4 7 6 32 Ste. Sce. TICKETS and. SHARES for the Next Day, THURSDAY, 14th of MARCH (when the very First Prize will receive X 20,000) are on Sale at CARROLL'S Offices, No. 19, CORN HILL, and 26, OXFORD-STREET, wh o old in the Last Lottery, _ 11,486 18,602 &c. &Lc. , Also several Capitals the First Day of . the present Lottery. PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MARCH 4. Mr. CooKE presented a Report from the Com missioners for the New Storeharn Harbour.— Laid on the table. Mr. FERRANT presented an account of the Receipts and Disbursements of the East India Dock Company. Laid on the table. Mr. BROGDEN and others brought up from the Commons the Irish Population Regulation Bill, and the Irish Seizure of Arms Bill.—Read a first time. The Assize Commission Bill was read a third time, and passed.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. *MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. CooKE presented 'a copy of the Annual Accounts of Shoreham Haiboui.. A person presented a copy of the Annual Accounts of the West India Dock Company. Lord OSSULSTON resented a petition from certain Dis tillers of Ber Wick upon Tweed, praying the House to remove the restricting duties by which Scotch Whiskey was prohibited being sold in England.—Laid on the table. Col. DAVIES moved that certain Returns which had been ordered by the. House on the 12th of February, be returned forthwith.—Ordered. _ _ _ GiiZ4sirNE moved !for ReturnS of the yearly amount of the Duties on Leather for the last ten years previous to the laying on of the increased duties; and also since that period, as far as they could be made up ; also for the num ber of Licences granted to Curriers within a certain period.— Ordered. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Colonel LYGON presented a petition from the County of Worcester, complaining of Agricultural Distress, and praying for Parliamentary Reform. Mr. CURWEN •moved for Returns of the Amount. of Importations of Cheese and Butter during the last year.— Ordered. CRIMINAL CODE. Mr. DICKENSON presented a petition from the Inhabi tants of rroine Selwood, praying for a revision of the Crimi nal Code.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. lIIJME moved for a Return of the number of Reert;its enlisted' in the Army, in the years 1816; 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, and 1821...--Ordered. ' Mr: HUME gave notice of a motion for Tuesday, the 19th of March, relative to the expence of retaining the lonian Isles. • ' PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Mr. NABERLY seeing the Hon. Secretary for the Trea sury in his place, and having observed the difference between the public accounts delivered to the House last year, and those in the statement made •by the Noble Marquis opposite, a few days age, wished to move for returns of accounts to explain that difference before lie made his motion on the subject, on the 12th of March next. He moved for an account showing how the difference arose upon the Excise and Custom Duties in the public accounts of 11121, and those signed " C. Arbuthnot," laid before the House in Feb. 1822. ' The Hon. Member also moved for a series of other accounts, upon each head of the public accounts, where there was a difference between the two statements. Mr. LUSHINGTON observed, that he had never seen a motion of such a nature brought 'on in the manner in which the present one had been. Never having seen the papers, he was totally unprepared to speak as to their correctness or otherwise. He thought it would be better if the Hon. Member gave notice of his motion for another day. Mr. BIABERLY thought the motion to be one the most proper to be granted of all others. He thought he discoyered great confusion and contradiction in the public accounts, and the motion would only lead to the, result of having them altered, or of vindicating their correctness. He might be wrong iri his conceptions, and the only means for the House to judge for it self, would be to put it in poisession of the accounts for which he had moved. He was open to the censure of the House, if his statements were incorrect, but he would pledge himself to shew that he was in the right. , Mr- LUSHINGTON thought it contrary to the practice of the House to grant papers of such a nature upon a motion of which no notice had been given. Mr. PETER • .MORE thought the papers ought to be granted. Mr. S. BOURNE said, that the papers for which the Hon. Member had moved, were so very numerous and so very com plicated, and went to assume various - facts of so important a nature, that he, as an individual member of the House, could not assent to them upon the simple motion of the lion. Gen tleman, made without any previous, notice. He thought the better way would be to-move for the papers which the Hon. Gentleman stated to be at variance, and they would speak for themselves. If-that were done, he thought there could be no objection ; but it was hardly fair to expect, that Gentlemen of the Treasury could, without any previous notice, be prepared to assent to the present motion. Mr. MABERLY intimated, that he had' no objection 'to this course, provided that the returns of the two statements should be shaped to explain the difference between them. After fi few observations from Mr. Lushington, Mr. C. Wynn, Mr. Hum; and Mr. Moberly, the motion waswith thawn. Mr. CANNING presented a Petition from certain Merchants of Liverpool, relating to the laws for regulating the Importa tion of Foreign Corn, which he moved should be referred to the Agricultural Committee. Mr. HUME had expected that the Right Hon. Gentleman would have made some observations upon the contents of the Petition, to enforce as much as possible the prayer of his con stituents. The Hon. Member then made some remarks upon the subjects embraced by the Petition. Mr. CANNING begged to express his thanks to the Hon. Gentlernan, for having expounded the contents of the Petition so much more ably than he could have done. But as the Peti tioners themselves had not alluded to any specific measures, and as he knew it to be their desire that the Petition should be referred to the Agricultural Committee, he had contented him self with simply moving to that effect. When the subject which now occupied that Committee should become matter of discussion for the House, he begged to assure the Hon. Mem: ber that he should neither be wanting in his duty to his consti tuents, nor to the community at large.—(Hear, hear !) MALT TAX. Mr. GOOCH wished to ask his Right Hon. Friend opposite (a laugh, the Hon. Member being on the Opposition side) a question upon an important subject. He wished to know whe ther, since Friday last, he had made any alteration in his inten tions with regard to the period at which the duty of a shilling a bushel upon malt was to expire; whether he intended that it should be taken off sooner than the period he had named, and whether any allowance was to be made for the stock of Malt on hand. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it would be in the recollection of the House, that, according to its reso lution, the tax would expire on the 66 of July next. After much consideration and inquiry, however, he found that the drawbacks which he had proposed would not be so satisfactory as he had wished and anticipated. lie should therefore pro. pose, that instead of the sth of July next, the duties Should cease from the 26th of February last, the day on which the I-louse came to the resolution . of repesling them. With respect to the stock in hand, we understood. ilk Right Hon. Gentleman t 6 say, that as relief would be given more effectively through the consumer than the manufacturer, there could be no allow ance made. The duties which hadalready been paid, since the period now fixed upon, to be returned as they were levied when the tax was imposed in 1819, namely, by instalments.— These would commence on the sth of July next, and the whole to be repaid in four quarterly instalments. In answer to questions from Mr. BENETT (of Wiltshire), Mr. ELLICE, and angther Hon. Member, which we could not distinctly catch from the conversational manner in which they were put, we understood the Right Hon. Gentleman to say, that whatever description of stock in hand had been subjected to the duties when they were imposed in 1819, would now have the benefit of the drawback. In answer to a question from Mr. S. WORTLEY, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that a great part of the duty which had been charged since the period at which he now proposed that it should cease, had not yet been paid ; that which had been paid, would be repaid by in stalments, under the regulation he had stated. Mr. WODEHOUSE made a remark, which was inaudible in the Gallery. Mr. G. BENNETT complained, that the Right Hon. Gen tleman came down to the House with ill-advised and ill-consi dered plans, which he afterwards abandoned to the loss of cer tain classes of the community. In the present case, those who had sold barley since the announcement of the first plan, had suffered much from the deterioration of prices. Mr. JONES gave notice of a motion relative to the compa rative advantage of repealing the Malt Tax or the Salt Tax, for Friday next. Lord A.IIIAMILTON postponed his Motion, which stood for the 20th of this month, to the 28th. MR. HUNT. Al lerman WOOD, in presenting a Petition from Mr. Hunt, complaining of his treatment in Ilchester Jail, wished to call the attention of the House to some of the fresh cruelties which had been exercised towards him, since the subject was last before the House. He had received a letter from that individual which stated that on Thursday last, Dr. Colston, one of the visiting Magistrates, attended by Mr. Newman, came to see him, and discovered in his room a small door leading into a small yard, described by the Commissioners, which admitted the air in the room. This door had been left open by Mr. Hardy since the dismissal of Bridle. The Magistrates had now ordered the door to be shut. In consequence of the confined state of the apartment he was become nearly blind of one eye. His surgeon and the surgeon of the jail had found it necessary to perform the painful operation of removing a humour from the inside of his right eyelid. His son, and his ward, Miss Jane Gray, almost in a state of desperation at the state to which he was reduced, presented themselves at the gaol, begging permis sion to be present while the operation was performed. Mr. Hardy told them, that he dared not admit them if the prisoner were dying. The Surgeons ordered hot fomentations to his eye during the night, and it was necessary that a nurse should remain with him. No woman was allowed to perform that office but a convict ; and when the Surgeon proposed that his son should remain with him, it was denied. He was conse quently left alone at six o'clock, the door was locked, and he remained in that state till five the next morning, without a soul with him, being nearly blind and suffering the most intolerable pain. The worthy Alderman thought the House would not suffer such cruelties to be continued without interposing to stop their progress. He wished the Right Hon. Secretary of State had been in his place, for lie did hope that the remaining five months of this individual's imprisonment would not be enforced. It was his duty to state, that he had been informed of the She riff's having sent down orders on Saturday last to remove the hardships of which the petitioner complained. He hoped, there fore, that there would be no further cause of complaint against the Magistrates. Mr. - DICKENSON denied that the Magistrates could be influenced by any malicious motives in their treatment of this prisoner. With regard to the door in question, he had no re collection of it, and this was the first time he had heard of the operation which Mr. Hunt had undergone. He had the satis faction to state, that the Sheriff had sent orders to have the pri soner placed in the same situation as when he first entered the jail, before the restrictions were imposed. Mr. G. BENNETT spoke in support of the Petition. Mr. HOBHOUSE expressed a hope that Mr. Ilunt would be removed-to some other prison for the remainder of his sen tence. It was stated at first that he was sent there as a matter of favour. Mr. SCARLETT explained that when Mr. Hunt was sen tenced, the jail of Ilchester was supposed to be one of the best regulated prisons in the kingdom. Mr. C. WYNNE thought there was no power or prerogative of the Crown for removing a prisoner with the object of amelio rating his sentence. If so, there must also be a power of ag gravating it. Mr. DENMAN knew there was no power in the Crown to alter the sentence, but it might be commuted by consent, as had been done in several cases. Mr. LQCKHART thought it the duty of the Worthy Alder man, after having such a petition put into his hands, to give notice of a specific mo►ion upon the subject. 'Dr. LUSH INGTON thought the Magistrates, in their treat ment of Mr. Hunt, had acted under a misconception of the power entrusted to their hands.. They found themselves in a difficulty with regard to him, and the remedy they applied was worse than the difficulty itself. They framed certain roles ac cording to the directions of the Acts of Parliament, got them signed by the Judges, and thereby tied up their own hands, so that they could afterwards exercise no discretion. He depre cated Magistrates thus giving up the power which they ought t 9 retain, and he trusted that the Magistrates of Somersetshire would set tilemseives right by ling before the Judges an other set of rules which would leave them the free use of dis cretionary power. Mr. Alderman HEYGATE could neither think it was the intention of Government, nor of so respectable a body of men as the Magistrates of the County of Somerset, to ag gravate the sentence of the law passed upon any prisoner what= ever. The petition was laid on the table. Dr. LUSH INGTON presented a similar petition from the Borough of Ilchester. Sir I. COFFIN supported the prayer . of his Constituents, upon the principle of olr. Hunt-having been treated unjustly and illegally. All the constituents in England should not make him support a petition unless he thought it was founded in fact. The petition was laid on the table. Sir R. WILSON presented a similar petition from'Eccles.— Lsid on the table. IRISH TITHES. • . . Sir J. NEWPORT presented a • petition from Waterford, praying that the House would take the Tithe System into con sideration. They mainly attributed to that system the present disturbances in Ireland, and the unhappy state in which that country was plunged. Many of the petitioners would be sufferers by the granting of • what they so disinterestedly asked. They prayed that, above all, the labourers might be enabled to till' potatoe lands at a lower rate. The Clergy in many cases did not receive what the Laity actually paid.— He recollected an instance wherein a tithe proctor had de manded thirty pounds of a farmer, although the clergyman, on being applied to, admitted that the sum due was but eleven pounds, and for which he offered to give a full discharge. He hoped the House would take the system into serious consi deration. Mr. GOULBURN said, that as he was quite unaware of the petition Until he had heard the Right Honourable Baronet, he was unprepared to meet the statement or the grievance complained of. He could however assure the Hoes: that the question of tithes was under the consideration of the Irish GO vernment, and that, if possible, a measure would be proposed for remedying the evils arising out of the system. The Com missioners now inquiring into the Administration of Justice in Ireland had been recommended to direct their attention to the practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts, with respect to suits for the recovery of tithes.—(Hear, hear !) Mr. ELLICE 'was happy to hear that Government intended to briug the subject forward on their own responsibility, in the shape of a specific measure. This was much preferable to any reference to a Committee. Mr. GOULBURN explained. He had merely said that the subject was under consideration,with a view to a remedy, if pos sible. Mr. NEWMAN said, he trusted that any remedy for the evil would be extended to England, in which he thought it was much wanted. Mr. HUME concurred in opinion with the last Speaker, and wished to ask the Noble Marquis opposite, whether the subject of English Tithes was under the consideration of Government —(No answer was given.) Sir JOHN NEWPORT was aware that the subject was under the consideration of Government. He had received the petition only that morning, and as the existence of the evil com plained of was undisputed, he had thought it his duty to pre, sent it. After a few words from Mr. Goin.nuitx, Lord EBRINGTON referred to the circumstance of no an swer having been given by the Noble Marquis to the question of the Member for Aberdeen. He trusted the Noble Mar quis would answer the question, as the subject of it was of .ge neral interest The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said he was not prepar ed to answer the question, because he conceived these subjects should be brought forward by a regular motion. lie was not aware that any measure was in the contemplation of Government upon the subject alluded to. The petition was then ordered to be printed. Lord EBRINGTON presented a Petition from certain owners and occupiers of land in Devonshire, complaining of Agricultural Distress, snd attributing that distress to exces sive taxation, rather than superabundant produce. They prayed for a reduction of Taxes, and for a reduction of Sine cures.--After a few words from the Noble Lord in support of the petition Mr. NEWMAN confirmed the statement of the Petitioners respecting the fact of their distress. In some parts of the county a sheep now sold for Ils. which formerly would have brought 30s. and the distress in all other respects_ corresponded with this instance. He thought a reduction of taxes would be the only remedy, and he thought the sense of the House had been fairly expressed the other night on the question for re pealing the Salt Tax. The Petition was then ordered to be printed. Mr. ELLICE presented a Petition from an individual named Jones, the proprietor of a considerable sum in the Navy Five per Cents. praying for an extension of the time limited for the holders of that stock to express their dissent from, the measure now in it.: progress through the House, respecting that Stock. The Hon. Member wished to know from the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he would consent to a reprint of the Bill, in order to give time for its consideration ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had no objection to the bringing up of the Petition, but he thought it was desirable that the measure in question should proceed without any delay. There would no doubt be cases of diffi culty, in consequence of the operation of the Bill ; but these might-be remedied by a separate measure. Mr. TIERNEY thought they might be considered on the bringing up of the Report. He wished to know what day the Right Hon. Gentleman intended to propose for the considera tion of the Report ? The 'CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered, " Thursday next." Mr. GRENFELL wished to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman whether any arrangement had been made with the Bank respecting the remuneration to be paid them for the la bour of carrying this Bill into effect. An arrangement had been made during the war, by which the Bank received 8,0001. upon every million of loan, and he understood the profits of the Bank on this head alone had amounted to 400,0001. The sum under the present Bill to be disposed of was 150 millions, and he hoped, therefore, nothing in the shape of a p er te nt a ge would be thought of. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said no ar rangement had as yet been made. In fact much would depend upon the number of persons who dissented from the measure. But of course a public body like the Bank could not be called upon to carry such a measure into effect without receiving some remuneration. Mr. GRENFELL perfectly agreed in the last.observation of the Right Hon. Gentleman ; but he hoped that in making the arrangement, some regard would be had to the large pro fits which the Bank were already receiving from the They had last year received as much as 270,0001. for making transfers and paying dividends. Independent of this they had always on band an average balance of four millions of the pub lic money, for which a service was performed so very inadequate to the interest of this money, that he was confident it might be safely arid would be gratefully performed by private Bankers for 10,0001. a year. Sir ROBERT WILSON wished to put a question to the Noble Marquis opposite. He wished to know whether Go vernment had, within these few days, received any advices tending to increase or diminish the hope held out in his Ma jesty's speech of an amicable adjustment between Russia and the Ottoman Porte, of their present differences. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, the tendency of the question was to have an effect upon the money market. He should only say that much alarm had gone abroad for which there was no reasonable cause. Sir It. WILSON said he asked the question because he was the trustee of a considerable sum in the stock in question. He had no wish to create any alarm. Mr. ELLICE trusted time would be given for the circulation of the Bill through the country, as many legal difficUlties might otherwise arise as to its construction. An HON. MEMBER, whose name could not be learned, ex pressed "a hope that at all events the Bill would be printed by Wednesday. -Mr. HUME thought some notice ought to be taken of the observat;ors of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Grenfell). The price paid by the public for the services of the Bank appeared to be very unreasonable, especially when it was considered that the Bank of Ireland performed the services required by them with out any remuneration. The Petition was then ordered to be printed. POOR LAWS. Mr. SCARLETT gave notice that, on the 30th instant, he should bring forward a measure for the regulation of the Poor Laws, a measure, however, which he should, notpress if his *Majesty's Ministers persisted. in their avowedintention of lending fouimillions to the' several ,T)arishes, because such a measure would, he thought,, render his own inoperative. He concluded, however, that as nothing had been proposed on the subject of that SLoan, since he last noticed it, that there was no intention to carry it on. The Mar9uis of LONDONDERRY said, he could not continue to give the Honourable and Learned Member encou ragement by his silence; and the Honourable and Learn ed Member would forgive him for observing that he had not drawn,a very correct inference from the circumstance he had Mentioned. NAVY FIVE PER. CENTS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the . Day for the House resolving itself into a Commit tee on the Navy Five per Cents. Transfer Bill. Mr. GRENFELL suggested that it would be advisable to leave out the clause which, in general terms, empowered the Treasury to remunerate persons for assisting to carry the Bill into execution. At present it was impossible to tell what would be the necessary labour of the Bank, and he strongly objected to the clause in its present general state. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the cir cumstance of the degree of labour being as yet unascertainable, was, in his opinion, a reason for adopting the clause, subject to the future approbation of Parliament. The House having resolved itself into a Committee, the Bill was agreed to, except the clause in question ; upon the feeding of which, Mr. GRENFELL said, he certainly (should take the sense of the Committee on the subject. 31r. ELLICE said, that on the thizd reading of the Bill he should propose a clause respecting the time allowed for dissent. ing to the measure. GRENFELL said, the reasoning of the Chancellor of the Exchequer had not convinced him. He did not think, the number of assenters or dissenters would materially affect the la. bour of the Bank. But whether it did or did not, he thought it Would be better to Make the necessary arrangement with the Bank in the first instance. He therefore moved that the clause empowering the Treasury to remunerate, be left out. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Committee divided, when there appeared— For retaining the clause For rejecting it Majority - On our re-admission into the Gallery, we found Mr. CALCRAFT addressing the Committee. He coin. plained of the shortness of the time allowed for dissenting to the measure. It would, in effect, be no more than five days. Mt. MABERLY also thought the time too short. He trusted it would be extended, for he was sure the measure would give general satisfaction when considered out of doors. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought the time quite sufficient.. A longer time was allowed to Trustees than to'those who held the Stock in their own right, and who might be supposed to make up their minds more readily than. Trustees. • 7f3 Mr. CALCRAFT disclaimed any wish to retard the Bill ; but he still hoped that further time would be granted for the expression of dissent. Mr. ELLICE said many questions would arise out of the Bill, which must be answered satisfactorily, before some of the Holders could express their dissent. For instance, if one of several Trustees dissented, and the rest assented, it might be proper to consider what would be the effect of this difference of opinion. NIONCK highly approved of the measure itself; but for that reason he wished that time should he given for those who were interested in it to give it due consideration. Sir J. NEWPORT said, the public could not be considered as having notice of the Bill until it had passed. No one, he be lieved, could doubt its beneficial operation ; but that of itself ought to support the application for time. Mr. CALCRAFT said, it was by no means improbable that the Bill would not receive the Royal Assent until the 16th of this month, the day mentioned for the first class to express their dissent. Unless time were given, he feared the public would, though erroneously, suspect that something was pur posely concealed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the principal information which the holders of the stock could re quire was that which appeared by figures and sums ; and these had already been published in the Resolutions of the House. Mr. ELLICE said, that any person interested in the stock might petition the other House, and pray to be heard by Coun sel against the measure ; and this alone might retard the course of the Bill. He feared there would be some difficulty in carry ing into effect the proposed plan of paying off the dissenters in turn. It was probable that the letters of dissent would he very numerous in the last hour of the last day. There might also be a difference in the value of the stock, occasioned by the dissent being early or late. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the plan of paying off the dissenters had been dearly laid down. The letters would be numbered, and the writers would be paid off' in their number. Mr. ELLICE said, he had no wish to cavil at the mea sure, but really it appeared to him more and more impractica ble after every explanation. Mr. T. WILSON said, there would be much difficulty as to the course to be taken by executors, who were required to pay annuities secured upon the interest arising from this stock.— It might be a question, whether the annuitants would not have a'claim upon the residue of their testator's estate, to make up the deficiency. • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that all persons who had invested their money in this fund had done so with a full knowledge of the legal, and a presumed knowledge of the probable, consequence of their doing so. Mr. T. WILSON said that, in the case he had mentioned by Way of explanation, the legacy duty would have been paid to Government on the full amount of the annuity. Mr. MABnRLY thoit4ht much confusion would arise in consequence of the difficulty suggested by the last speaker; lot trustees would, if possible, shift their stock, in order to avoid any responsibility. Mr. MARTIN -expressed his doubts as to the possibility of carrying the measure into execution. He had spoken to seve xal Bankers, and persons connected with the Bank of England, who had expressed their belief that it was impracticable. He wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman, whether he had had any communication with the Bank on the subject ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had of course communicated with the Bank on the subject. They thought it was, in all respects, practicable. • The House then resumed, and the Report was brought up and ordered to be taken into consideration on Thursday. Sir. MABERLEY gave notice that on .'Thursday next he should move for a Return of certain Accounts connected with the Land Tax Office. SUPPLY—ARMY ESTIMATES. • On the Order of the Day being read for the House to go into a Committee of Supply on the Army Estimates, Mr. DENMAN said, he observed that there were-other Orders of importance on the paper—Orders which, as had been done before, would possibly be disposed of in a thin and ex hausted House at one o'clock in the morning. &mil was ,the manner in which a Bill of great importance—he meant the pill of Indemnity for the Seizure of Arms in Ireland—had been carried through the House at one o'clock on Saturday morning; a Bill which in principle was highly objectionable, and to the execution of which the strongest difficulties would present themselves. There was another Bill of great importance in the Orders for that night, and one which required the utmost consi deration—he meant the Smugglers' Commitment Bill ; and he had only to. hope that it wculd not, at an unseasonable hour, -be hurried through the House. Mr. ‘VAIrRE said, that the practice of hurrying Bills through the House, without affording an ample opportunity of discussion, was a practice which ought not to be allowed. - Mr. O. BENNET said the practice was most objectionable, and he would take care that it should not go on. • The House then resolved itself into Committee. Lord PALMERSTON then rose to submit to the Committee the Army Estimates for the present year. He said that :tie should have the pleasure of showing considerable reductions in this department of the Public Expenditure, and that, exclusive of the Veteran Battalions, the Estimates f this year, as com pared with the last years, would show a reduction of 12,304 in the number of men, and of 537,0001. in pecuniary amount. Before he entered into his details, he begged to observe ; that there were one or two misprints in the papers on the table, and that a vote of 5,7001. was to be struck out of the ixcounts for Yeomanry Estimates, in consequence of another clothing ar rangement which had been made since they were printell. The great reduction had been made in the inland force:— When the reduction first came under consideration, three modes of =ducting it had been pointed out. First, to reduce entire regiments ; second, to reduce a given number of men in each troop or company ; and third, to reduce whole companies in each regiment. The last mode was preferred • and adopted as combining the greatest extent of saving, and leaving the most efficient strength. It bad also this advantage over eithera the other modes of disbanding that it would not alter the forni of rotation of regiments abroad. The reduction was effected in this manner —two, regiments of cavalry had been reduced en, tirely, two troops were reduced in each remaining regiment of cavalry, and two companies in each remaining regiment of .the line. In Ceylon, a regiment was to be paid' by the &Dimly; and a regiment in India was to he relieved from thence, whereby some saving would also be effected. The following were some of the departments in which a saving had been effect ed !- -In the staff there was a saving of 13,5711.—in other public departments of 12,000 L—in medicines of.9e2C4l.—in -vo lunteer corps of 3,5001. He begged, before he proceeded far thereto. remark, that there would be an additional saving •of 51,0001. this year, were it not for the disturbed state of Ireland. In the Military College there was a saving of 3,2531., which was effecte.d by a reduction in the emolume its of sense .of the pro fessers, andan increase of the contribution of students. Having alluded to the diminution in some of the departments, he had to remark, that there was a small increase.in the pay of General Officers, to.the amount of 3,8561., in consequence of the-Par liamentary arrangement which had been pressed upon Govern ment during the last year, respecting the full pay of regimental commissions. Some small garrison appointments made an in crease of 6901., and the full pay of retired officers caused an addition of 15,0001. In the general pay and nulitery allowances there was an increase of 51,0001., arising (neeeSsiatily) out of the reductions made in the arrangement of the land retees. ; ,,The fo