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was no doubt of this, and it was equally undoubted that no money bad been voted by Parliament on account of these vvorkt. Here he might refer to the estimates, not with a view to discuss whether t h e expenditure was proper or not, but merely to show the amount de manded. The estimates, then, stated that about 11,000/. bad been expended, and the house would by-and-by be asked to vote that money on account of it. Now, he a pprehended there never was a clearer caseof expenditure incurred without the sanction of Parliament, and he thought this was not a question of trifling importance, to be dealt with in committee as a mere estimate open to criticism and objection. He did not intend to discuss whether the expenditure was a proper or an improper one —whether too much or too little bad been spent. That was quite foreign to the more important point in volved, which was this :—Admitting that Parliament ought to have voted the money, and that not a sixpence bad been unnecessarily expended. how came it that pub lic money had been expended at all without the sanction of Parliament ? (Hear, hear.) Every schoolboy knew how important a privilege it was, and not only a privi lege but a duty, for Parliament to preserve intaot this Check upon the public expenditure. Perhaps, however, as this was a new Parliament. he might show from his own recollection bow other Houses of Commons had dealt with cases of this kind. In 1841, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Naval Lord, in consequence of the disturbances in Syria, thought it necessary for the public service to exceed his estimates. The subject came before the house. No one expressed a doubt as to the propriety of the increased expenditure; everybody seemed to admit that the Government had exercised a wise discretion under the circumstances in taking further precautions than were thought necessary when the estimates were voted. But still the course taken was objected to • and the Government were called upon not only to explain, but to give satisfaction for having exceeded the estimates. Upon that occasion Ministers admitted that extreme necessity and the fact that Parliament was not sitting at the time formed their only justification ; but such was the view entertained that a bill of indemnity being suggested, he himself brought in a separate Appropriation Act with the view of marking that the transaction was an irregular one, not lightly to be passed over. The predecessor of the present Speaker "thought that objections existed to the passing of such a bill, and it was accordingly withdrawn, but in the Appropriation Act of the ses sion a special clause was introduced which stated the necessity, and granted the money only on that ground. Again it happened that in Lord Auckland's time the estimates upon the dockyard battalion bad been exceeded. The justification then was that at that mo ment there were reasons why additional measures should be taken for the protection of the country. Parliament, however, was so far from admitting such an extuse, that Mr. Hume moved a resolution, which was pretty equiva lent to a vote of censure, declaring it to be the duty of the Government not to exceed the estimates, and this resolution was agreed to without a dissentient voice. That instance was a still more remarkable one than the one he had first mentioned, for the Treasury had given the Admiralty a very strong "jobation" for what it had done. The house would see that these were cases of a much lighter character than that upon which he was re marking, because there Pailiament had admitted the prin ciple of the expenditure, and had actually voted a certain sum ; and it was always considered that a mere excess of expeniiture upon a sum granted was a more venial irre gularity than to spend money upon a work which Parlia ment had never sanctioned. On looking at the last report of the Audit-office which had been presented he found that the auditors referred to a correspondence with tee Treasury, in which they pointed out that in 25 instances wores had been undertaken and paid for by the Board of Works before the sanction of Parliament had been ob tained, and that that sanction had not been obtained until after the completion of the works. Some of those works were trifling in amount, but there was an item of 1,000/. for wood pavement, and another of 1,6001. for the great clock. Ile perceived that Lie right bon. friend stated in exelanetion that all these were cases of emer gency, and that he could not wait for a vote of Parlia ment. He (Sir F. B trine) did not know whether that great clock was connected with the great bell which was to carry down his right hon. friend's name to posterity —(a laugh)—hut he did not exactly see any emergency in the case which rendered it impossible to wait for a vote of Parliament. As he had said, these sums were small in amount, but when the house found that two years ago there were 25 small 'oeccadill /es, and that now we had arrived at about 11,000/. so expended, it was time for Parliament just to show that it had not forgot ten that which he apprehended to be one of its principal du ies—namely, the control of the public expenditure. (Hear.) A very strong impression prevailed in these days that the principal check which there ought to be on tee public expenditure should consist in the audit. That might be a rlglit or a wrong view —he; would not stop to discuss it ; bnt if he were right, and if all the other cheeks were insufficient, be begged his right hou, friend to look for 'a"moment to the return which had been presented last year upon the state o f th e accounts in the Audit Depaitment: He found from that return that the ac counts of the " Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods. Foreets, Lands, Revenues, Works, and Buildings," had beeh' received up to 1851, and that they had been audited up to 1848; so that the audit cf that department was nearly nine years yin arrear. - In 1851 a d i Pnble audit took place, one called the audit of the• expenditure and the other the appropriation audit ; and to this latter which wai brought for ward from yeat to year, greatwalne was very properly attached.' The reports of the auditors were full of complaints of the way in which the accounts were brought before them, and the auditors stated that they were not able to present them to Parliament in a satisfactory manner, owing to the way in which the ba lances of one year were carried on to the succeeding year. Under these circumstances, be (Sir F. Baring) thought that, instead of waiting for another year or two to find out how the money bad been expended in St. James's Park, it would be better to bring the subpet before the House at once, in order to obtain some ex planation from his right bon. friend. Whether that explanation should be verbally satisfactory or not, lie thought that the House should not agree to a vote ir eluding the money already spent without having the whole of the papers before them, and he should be glad if his right hon, friend would give a pledge not to avail himself of this vote until the full papers were pregented to Parliament. (Hear, hear.) He did not wish to in terfere with the business of the house, and he should not follow up the subject, therefore, with any resolution. Sir B. HALL said that his right hon. friend who bad jest sat down had moved upon the 20th of May for papers in relation to the works which had been proceeded with in St. Jslllos'S.Park ; that on the Bth of the present month these papers had been presented to Parliament, that th were now being printed, and that they would very shortly be laid before the house in a printed form. Ile concurred most fully in all that hit right hon. friend had raid as to its being the duty of Parliament to watch with jealous care any expenditure of public money whicu had n t been sanctioned by a vote of the Legislature ; and he thought that whoever called upon the Treasury for any expenditure of public money which had not been so sanctioned ought to hold himself respontible for his con duct, and ought to be prepared to give a good and suffi cient exelaration to th e H ouse o f C to/noes with respect to it. He propo-ed, therefore, to state to the hinnies every eircnmstance in corm-tee - ea with the eependitnr ) noon the lake. in St. James's Park. At the end of Jolt', 1855, he wts appointed to hit prase nt office, having pre viously held the appointment of Pretident of the B and of Health. He was at the Board of Health during the time that the choleta was raging in the metropolis, and he Watt:then brought into frequent contact with tbeprin e:p 1 medical preethieners in Londo n ; and almost every ore o' teem to whom ho had spoken had pointed out the defective state of the lattes in the parka and had urged the necessity of having them put into a proper condition. On the I2th of Ostobei he wrote to the Treasury, stating that fact, and recommending the propriety of some steps being taken in order to improve the state of the lakes in the parks of the metropolis. He staid also that before any works of that kind could be carried out, it, would be necessary to make an outfall drain from the lake in St. James's Park, because it happened, owing to circum stances which had occurred many years ago, that the outfall was about five feet higher than the bed of the fake. 4f.., received the senc:ion of the Treasury to the making of that outfall drain, and hon. members must be aware that it was a very heavy work. It went from the victoria sewer near the Thames under the archway of the Horse Guarle, and it was finished during last sum mer. The house would recollect that last session a select committee was appointed to consider the communication from Pall-mall to Pimlico, and other communications through St. James's Park, and one of the rest lotions arrived at was that there should be a bridge made acrcss the ornamental water. On the 6th of June he proposed to the house a vote of 2,8001. for the erec tion of such a bridge, but his proposition was rejected. The bridge was to have been very similar to the one which was now being erected there, only instead of bei g a suspension bridge it was to have been sup- Ported by light cast-iron pillars, and it would have beet' ,much cheaper than the present bridge, be !ante it would not h ave b een necessary i n order to build thit that the water should have been let out of e - 144 . That eoeme _determined vote was rejected, h owever , an d th e that there s ho u ld b e a suspension bore That was resolved upon toward, the close of lest Resider, Parliament breaking up in the third week in July. session, Parliament feutidations ehouehni found that it was essential that deep it would be absoluteble executed for the new bridge, that Y neces , ary to let the water out of the like, and that it be out for a considerable taus during the ' progress oIT eideretion, knowin g a l se e t t t wor k t t• Talon that into t OOO or of cleansing the lake, and that about 40 50,000 cubit: yards of stuff would be required to fie u e tt de t r he holes and inette lake; in the lake finding, eover, owing it safer for skaters and sliders ; and findie e to the many buildings which wets going; on in the 'neighburh e that be could obtain that material for wahine , whereas in another year it !night cost him 21. ' or es. DJ. a-yard ( w hi c h would wake It difference of 400 01. o r 5,0 00/. in the cost of the works), he had thought it better to uree e upon the Treasury the necessity cf preceedin g with the works at once, insteaad of waiting f r another y ear, when the c nut ef the material to which he had a L it he might have added nerr;y• 50 year cent, to the or gi ne ; et _ Ciliate, U n d er th ese circumstances, he thought tteh onee would be of opinion that he was justified in urging or the Treasury the expediency of commencing a work which he believed to be neces-ary for the c mfort arid well-being of the inhabitants of the metropolis. ITS wrote to the Treasury requesting power to proceed 'with the work, and on the 27th of Aug. received their sanc tion. It had been his intention to ask for a vote this year for the purpose of beginning the work, but tender the circumstances he had stated he the tight no time was to be dose because it was itnpostible to say whether he might net be oblieed, if he delayed, to ask f r a very mech larger auto. He therefore thought it be-t, as it 'was neeea_aty to Ist out the water of the lake, to pr ceed with the wctk. That was the full explanitien -he bad to give. lie was ready to admit that unithet he rHE_ SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1857 nor any one connected with a public department ought to spend the public money without the sanction of Par liament, yet circumstances might arise snaking it abso lut<ly necessary and expedient that money should be spent without waiting for that sanction. His right hon. friend bad said that it wa+ the practice for the Office of Works to spend sums of public money without a vote of the house ; and, fencing done so and executed the works, that then the First Commissioner came down to Parliament, and asked that money might be voted for the purpose of paying the expense of the works carried on by his authority under the sanction of the Tres- Bury. He could assure his right hon. friend that, whatever had been the practice in former years, such was not the practice at present. In looking through the estimates fee. the present year he found very few cases, and those of a very pressing nature, of works for which charges were made without the authority of Parliament. His right hon. friend had called attention to two sums especially, one of which was on aeon ant of the construction of the c'ock, which he would allude to at once. He found that there was an agreement made with Mr. Dent, the maker of the clock, to the effect that as soon as the gentlemen to whom the matter was referred gave a certificate that the clock was in a proper state and went well and ought to be purchased, a sum should be paid on account. He therefore was bound, as soon as he was called on by Mr Dent, to ask the referees whether they would give a cer tificate, and on receiving it he was bound to write to the Treasury asking for the amount which he thought Mr. Dent fairly entitled to under the circumstances. Another item was occasioned by the distribution of the Crimean medal. That was a matter which could not he foreseen, and 1,600/. were paid on account of it. There was a charge for ventilation, but that matter, he believed, was determined by a committee of that house before he was in the office he now held.. His right hon. friend bad called the attention of the house to the state of the ac counts of the office. He was not aware that that ques tion would have been brought forward, otherwise he would have been better prepared to give explanation re specting it. He was bound to say that, from circum stances over which he had no control, he found, when he first went to the Office of Works, the accounts in a m st unsatisfactory state. This was owing to circumstance+ which the house wouid admit rendered it to some extent excusable. He found that the gentleman who was ptin cipal secretary in the office bad not, in consequence of severe illness, attended the office for 11 months,. and the assistant-secretary very shortly after he (Sir B. Hall) entered the office was seized with a malady which affected his head. This gentleman in consequence left the office very soon, and was now in a very unfortunate state. Other matters connected with the office, which it was not nece.ssary for him now to enter upon, also contributed to occasion the bad state of the accounts ; but he might state that no less than 444 queries had been sent from the Audit-office to be answered by the Office of Works, and of them he believed there were not 30 in allusion to the accounts passed during the time he had the honour to fill his present office. All those 444 queries had been answered during the time he had been in the office to the satisfaction of the Audit-office, and he believed that the accounts of the office were now in a most satisfac. tery state. He had only to repeat, with respect to the expenditure on St. James's Park, a large sum of money would hereafter be saved in consequence of the course which had been adopted. Mr. BENTINCK thought that what bad occurred within the last few years ought to teach the house and the country that nothing was so prejudicial or extrava gant as mistaken economy, and he asked why it was that, while there was a disinclination on the part of Go vernment to ask for sums necessary for the defences of the country, there appeared a disposition to make a wasteful and extravagant expenditure for works the ne• cessity of which could net be justified. He thought there ought to be some head having a general control over the expenditure of the country, in order that there might be a security that what money the house voted should be applied to legitimate of jests —to works neces sary for the safety of the country—and not squandered on such absurd ;ft ijects as the making of a fish-pond. The SPEAKER—I must remind the hon. gentleman that it will he prs , per is discuss questions of detail in committee, arid not at present. The right hon. Bart. has confined himself to the general question whether a cer tain sum of money should be expended without the sanc tion of Parliament Mr. BE NTINCK said he thought he bad conveyed to the house the impression that he intended to discuss the principle refereed to. He contended that money for beau tifying the metropolis ougnt not to be supplied by the public purse, but by means ofa local rate. There was an increase of 24,0001. for parks and gardens, whilst there was a diminution of nearly 100,0001. for harbours of re fuge. The public money ought to be expended on useful and national objects, and not frittered away in the man ner it was 'sow done. (Hear.) Sir D. NORREYS thought the right hon. baronet had made out something like a justification of the course he had pursued ; but whilst he placed every confidence in bins, he recommended the house to watch him as mar roely as possible. (Laughter.) Mr. B. HOPE did not agree with the hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Bentinck) that the decoration of the me tropolis was not a legitimate expenditure of the taxation of the country. If improvements were not carried on, the metropolis would be reduced to a state of disorganisation and barbarism. According to the hon. gentleman no money ought to be expended for objeots in which all the people did not participate. How he would ask the hon. member what benefit the inhabitants of the midland counties derived from harbours of refuge 'I (Laughter.) Lord 3. MANNERS said that as the attention of .the right hon. gentleman (Sir B. Hall) had been directed to the improvement of the lakes, he did not see why be had not called the attention of Parliament to the subject. (Hear.) The complaints of medical men referred not only to the water in St. James's-park, but to the other parks, and especially to the Serpentine. Is was no new thing for gentlemen in the position of the right hon. baronet to be waited on by medical men with respect to the Serpentine. He was afraid that at the end of the session the right hon. gentleman might endeavour to im press on the Treasury the necessity of interfering with the Serpentine without consulting Parliament on the subject ; and trusted the discussion would not terminate without an intimation from the Government that such a request would not be assented to without giving hon. members an opportunity of fully considering the matter Sir H. WILLOUGHBY thought they could not ex aggerate the importance of the question before them, That question was whether that house was to be a con trol over the public expenditure. His opinion was that it was eientrol in the nature of 'moonshine. Tuey did not know whether the grants of last year were expeuded or no*. If the Commissioner of Works could spend 14,0001. without authority on a lake and a sewer, what sf carity had they that he would not spend 40,000/. ? He asked if 8751. was not voted for that sewer last year ; and what was the meaning of expending 3,725/. over it now ; and what was the meaning of a Treasury minute ? Then 11,000/. bad been expended in sending the ducks and drake; away. Was that the sum authorised by the Treasury letter of the 27th of August, 1856, a few days after Parliament was prorogued, or did he expend it under the authority of the Treasury letter of April, 1857 ? Would the house sanction that sort of expen• diture ? If so, their debates on matters ofpfinance were utterly useless. He trusted that a resolution would be brought forward and . carried th a t suc h expen d iture was a violation of the pr ivileges of that house. Mr. AYRTON tendered his thanks to the right h-n baronet (Sir B. Hall), but when he came to the explana tion he did not bear a word of it. He trusted that another time when he got up to mike an explanation he would make himself heard. (Oh.) Mr. MOWBRAY remarked that this was not the only unauthorised expenditure. Lest year there was an expenditure of several thousands on fireworks—(a laugh) —without authority, thougn Parliament was sitting. The CHANCELLOR of th e EXCHEQUER said,. with regard to the fireworks, it would be in the recollec tion of gentlemen who were members of the house at the time that the question was asked about the amount of the expenditure, which was answered by members of the Government, and it was stated that the money would be paid out of the civil contingencies, which, as the house was aware, were voted in a gross sum. Mr. HENLEY said Sir F. Baring had complained that Government without sufficient cause had expended money without the sanction of Parliament, and the an swer that the firewo r k s were pa id f or out of the eivil contingencies did not give them any security that such expenditure would not be repeated. The Commissioner of Works heaving suspended the proposed suspension bridge at the claire of the last session of Parliament got authority from the Treasury in August to do certain other things. That certainty was a queer time, jest after the close of Parliament. He thought something bad happened to the right hon. baronet from his short con nection with the Board of Health. He always thought that when a parson was inoculated with sanitary views it was a bad thing for their pockets. (A laugh.) He hoped that his successor would not go through the same train ing. He quite agreed with the hon. member for Norfolk as to the injustice of taxing the country at large for the benefit of the metropolis, but that objection did not apply in this case, as tnis money was used for one of the royal parks. _ Tne motion that the Speaker leave the chair was then agreed to, and the house went into eornrnmittee. CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES. The house then went into Committee of Supply, Mr, FITZIIOY in the chair. w r , WILSON said that before placing in the hair's of the chairman the first vote which he intended to pro pose he designed, in pursuance of the notice be had given, to make a general statement with regard to the great increase that had taken plAce in the expenditure upon certain votes in the Civil Service Estimates. The hon. baron( t (Sir H. Willoughby) had, indeed, ques- tioned whether he would be quite in order in making that statement after going into Committee of Supply, As for as he was concerned it was a mattcr of indiff- r oue° whether he male that statement before going into Committee of Supp y or in Committee of Supply; but the question having been referred to the right hon. pri ma', in the chair, to whom it must ba the wish of the house to defer, a❑d the right hon. gentleman having, as he thought, on good grounds decided that this statement would be best made in Committee of Supply, he hoped that he should be held to pursue the best and most con sistent course in adopting that plan. He was aware that it was a novel practice to make a general statement on going into Committee of Supply on the Civil Sttrvice Estimates, but circumstances bad somewhat. changed of late in recard to these estimates. Some years ago the Civil Service Estimates amounted to a very small sum: It was customary in those days to place every descrip tion of civil expenditure upon the Consdidated Fund, but a more wlactle6oEneancl Parliamentary course had been adopted, cf placing this expenditure upon the votes of Parliament. These votes had now increased to so large an amount that it was fair that Parliament should occasionally—he did not say every year—be informed of the grounds upon which this large expenditure had taken place. In making this statement he did not wish to set a precedent for the future, but it was only just on the part of the Govern ment, seeing the evensive manner in which these estimates had been criticised both in the house and the country, that he should have an opportunity of explain ing the chief grounds on which the large increase had taken place, in order that the Hous e o f C ommons s h ou ld exercise its discretion and determine whether it would proceed in the course it bad pur-ued of annually increas ing certain important votes, which had led to the aug mentation in these estimates. Hon. members would see in Parliamentary paper No. 136 of the present session the amount under every head of the civil expenditure as it had been voted since 1830. Hon. members on casting their eyes over this statement would find that since 1838 the amount of the Civil Service Estimates bad been in creased from 2,393,0001. in that year to 6,724,0001. last year. It must be admitted that this increase oft xpendi , tura was not unnaturally a subject of anxiety and alarm I both in and out of the house ; but it had been caused in a great measure by an alteration in the practice which formerly prevailed of placing very large sums on the , Consolidated Fund. For example, when it was deter mined to pay the charge for the Irish constabulary, that charge amounting to 630,0001. per annum, am placed ' ou the Consolidated Fund, and was not found in the civil estimates voted by Parliament. In those days all the charges for the Board of Works, the land revenue, the public parks and pleasure-grounds, were paid out of ' the revenue of those departments before it reached the exchequer. That practice was now altered. The house had not only properly prevented any expenditure from being withdrawn, after collection of revenue, on its way to the exchequer, but it bad entirely abandoned tbe plan of placing charges upon the Consolidated Fund, whicb, never coming before Parliament, by that means escaped the attention of the House of Commons. Every new ex penditure provided by Acts of Parliament was now placed in the annual votes of Parliament, and there fore the house was enabled to consider not only the question to which the expenditure referred, but also the amount and character of that expenditure. He did not propose to trace back these estimates so far a5,,1838, but in the discussions which took place in the last session, and in the speeches since made out of Parliament, it had almost become as familiar as a household word, that the Civil Service Estimates had in creased during the short period between 1852 and 1856 by 2,300,0001. He wag free to admit that this increase was not only a fitting subject for discussion by that house, but also by all who took an interest in the econo my of the public service ; and this being the paint' to which public attention had more particularly been drawn he proposed, avoiding a discussion of individual esti mates in committee, to call attention to the amount in which this large expenditure bad- taken place, that the house might see the exact amount of this increase and the distribution of that amount, and determine wLether it would proceed in the same course that it had of late years pursued. As to the increase of expenditure, the Government were not responsible. Every shilling of that amount had been voted by the House of Commone, and resulted from the deliberations and decisions of Par liament. It was therefore proper that the house should now have the opportunity of seeing the result of the va rious acts that it had done during the last 4 or 5 yearv, and of coming to a determination whether it would pro ceed in the same course for the future. He would now read to the house the amount of the Civil Service Esti mates from 1852 to 1856. 1852, 4,407,7541 ; 1853, 4,802,3181. ; 1854, 6,648,522/. ; 1855, 6,686,062/. ; 1856, 6,724,2501. The committee would observe that the estimates of 1854 showed an advance of 2,000,0001 upon 1852 ; that the estimates of '1855 were somewhat leis than theme of 1854, and those of 1856 were some what greater. However the estimates for the last three years —1854, 1855, and 1856—were nearly the same, the great increase having taken place in 1854. He would now give the increase of the estimates of the fol lowing years as compared with those.of 1852. That in crease gas asfollows:-1853, 394 6591.; 1854, 2 240,7691. 1855, 2,178,308/. ; 1856, 2,316,496/. What he pro f • ,ed was, not to trace the empires/ of the increase in each year, but to take the year 18.56 the year of the largest amount—and to represent the causes of the increase of the years 1854 and 1855. In the first place, he must re mind the house of the existence of a strong feeling mani fested by the house on many occasions, and most of all expressed by his hon. friend the member for Lambeth (Mr. Williams), as to the inconvenience and loss that arose from the fact that a large portion of the expendi ture imbedded in acts of Parliament was annually paid out of the gross revenue on its way b the Exchequer, that in these eases the House of Commons bad n's oppor tunity of saying a word on a single shilling of that ex penditure, and had a ) opportunity of controlling it. His right hon. friend Mr. Gladstone took steps to remedy this defect, and among- the many signal services per formed by that right hon. gentleman none were of greaser importance than this. -Early in the session of 1854 the Treasury prepared, at the request of the Government, a , bill for the purpose of transferring from the Consolidated Fund all charges of a nature that eould`be voted by-Par 'lament, and withdriveinieeem'the Customs, the Exche quer, and the other revenue departments all paym en ts either for salaries or other revenu e - -.ln pursuance of that bill the Haase of -Commons in 1854 removed from the Consolidated Fund 34 items Of public expenditure. Therefore, in 1854 they voted for the first ti me f or t h ese items no less a sum than 977,6001. By the same act they transferred from the CuAoms 12 - v - settee amounting to 205,8001. They also transferred from the navy and the commissariat votes to the extent of 29,600/. For post ages transferred from army, navy, : and gross revenue, they annually voted 85,000/. In addition to that, it had been tbe custom to pay a great number of . persons -by fees, but the house having condemned that practice, sala• ries had been paid instead and the fees banded over to the Exchequer. In some cases these fees had been con. verted into stamp duties. Therefore a considerable num ber of new votes were represented by fees paid annually into the Exchequer, or by stamp duties in lieu of fees, the total amount of them-being 138,0001. Adding these various sums together,. it would be found that no less than 1,436,0001. of the increase Of 2,316,0001. had been transferred 'from the other funds by which- they had previously been -defrayed, and were now borne on the annual votes of Parliament. This reduced the large amount of 2.316,0001. which looked so alarming 'when stated by itself, to only' 80,000/. There *as an in crease for education in Great Britain of 291,000/ in Ireland, 63,0001. e thealeparbment of science and art, 25,000/.; and the National. Gallery, 1 5 ,000/.—making together 394,0001. 'A very,litege increase would again be found in the educational vote this year ; and it the present system was to continue they must expect the augmentation of this item to proceed still further. In 1852 the entire educational vetes, including England and Ireland, science, art, and the National Gallery, amounted to 440,0001. In 1838 the corresponding sum was only 30 000/ ; On 1836 it had risen as high as 759,000/. The sum proposed for the present year was 850,000 e; the vote for England alone considerably ex ceeded half a taillike This was a charge which was entirely under the control of Parliament, and while such conflicting opinions were held in this country on the sub ject of education, it must be some consolation to those who were in favour of its extension to know that tee causes they had at heart salt not being neglected either by the Legislature or the G v remeet. The next item was for Holyhead rfarbour and other barb mere of refuge. - Upon this the increase in the plan of last year, as coin pared aid] that of 1852, was 180,000/. When the first vote for Holyheaff Harbour was taken, a very large scheme was proposed to Parliament, founded on the re• commendation of the Admiralty ; bht owing to the jealousy of Liverpool and the neighbouring ports, toge ther with a scepticism on the part of that house as to the utility of the project, the undertaking was reduced from" a plan that would cost 1,200,000/.—the original sum suggested—to one that would cost only 808,000 e The smaller project was-the one actually adopted; but to such a remarkable degree had the expectations of those who advocated the more extensive scheme been realised, that even during the progress of the., works the harborer was so much resorted to an its incomplete state, and so inade quate to receive the vessels having recourse thereto, that the Government had been compelled to come down to , the house and propose increase after increase in the vote until they had reached the highest amount contemplated in the original plan, and the. • present estimate was 1,980,000/. The following table, taken from the report of Captain Skinner, the superintendent of Holyhead harbour, showed the number of vessels which had en- , tered from 1852.: . . ... . No.. .. . . Tonnage. 1852 ... .o 514 . . ... 34.650 1853 ... ... 1,293 ... 106,392 1854 ••• ••. 1,788 ... 137,058 1855 ... ... .1,607 ' ... 119,413 1856 ••• ••• 2,394 ' .. '198,666 The importance of this harbour 'WArevery great, because not only did the Irish postal packets go to and from it, but it was for the convenience of the metropolis that the American steamers should land theirletters, &c., when they arrived off Holyhead. One cause of the large in crease upon this and similar workswas that it was found advisable to complete them as expeditiously as possible. It was due therefore to the exertions of the late Mr. Rendell, who had had the supervision of this harbour, and whose great professional abilities everybody would admit (hear) —that they had been able to expend a large sum in the execution of this undertaking in a sin gle year. If important public works of this kind were to be carried out at all the quicker they were advanced the better for the interests of the community. (An ironical cry of " Hear, hear 1") While the works con tinued unfinished a vast capital was lying idle from which the public derived no advantage, whereas—as be begged to remind ben, gentlemen who cheered—the sooner they were brought to completion the sooner would the countey reap the benefit of its expenditure. Although Holyhead and some other harbours would not continue to be an annual charge to this extent, yet, from the interest generally t a k en in the state of the harbours of refuge along our coast, and from the absolute necessity of these improveruonts, not only for the sake of the navy but for the safety of life and property connected with our mercantile marine,' it would be for the house to determine whether it would persevere in outlays of this description in time of peace. The next head of charge was 'printing and stationery, the amount of which would no doubt pro duce some surprise. The increase since 1852 wail no less than 211,0001. He should not be doing justice to Mr. MeCullocb, who was at tho head of this department, if he did not state his belief that no public servant ha dl exerted himself more than that gentleman had done to economise and keep down this expenditure; although cer iply his control over it was but limited, the head of the s tionery branch being as it were but a sort of warehousetna for the ether departments. The charge for stationery head aug mented as follows :-- In 1818 it was In 1852 _____ In 1856 • 451;000 This augmentation was subject to a diminution which tho committee would view with satisfaction. The difference between the items for 1852 and 1856 (242,00'0 was composed thus :—the printing of patents had been trans ferred to the Stationery Department ; and though that item now cost, the country 40,000/. a year, which was included in this vote, yet the amount of fees paid into the Exchequer was upwards of 100,0001. Instead, there fore, of this forming a charge, it was on the whole a source of profit to the Exchequer. There was a sum of 30,0001. in respect of a transfer to the stationery-office for the purchase of stamps on parchments, which were repaid by the public in the purchase of those stamps. There was therefore an amount of 70,00 which con sisted of a mere transfer from the Patent-office and the Inland Revenue-office. Besides, the war bad caused a very large increase in the demand for stationery. The house was probably aware that it had been the policy of the Government for many years past to bring into the St,- tionery office the whole of the business connected with the purchase of parer, books, and the printing of documents for all the public depaitm en t s ; and even to such an ex tent had that been carried that t he cartridge paper for the regiments had been purchased at the Stationery-office by the Ordnance Department. (Flear.) It was obvious that the gentleman who was at the head of the Stationery-office, and who had frequently to make contracts with paper manufacturers for every description of paper, was more likely than the superintendent of the Ordnance Depart ment to enter into an advantageous contract for the sup ply of paper for the service of the army. In the War Doper ment there lad been an increase of 65,0001. and in that of the Admiralty an increase of 16,0001. making to gether 81,0001., a large portion of which might be considered as temporary and attributed to the late war. As might naturally be expected from the increase of public business, the printing of that house had increased during the last few years. There was an increase of 13,0001. under that head. The Treasury and the Stationery -office would only be too happy to check, if possible, that expendit ure . Th e h ouse was aware that it rarely happened that motions for the printing of returns were opposed by the Government ; and why? Simply because the hon. members who made these motions almost invariably said that they inten led to found resolutions upon the papers for which they asked. But when the pavers were printed, and they were frequently very bulky, not more than five or six persons cared to read or look at them. Thera were also increased charges as follows : Parliamentary stationery, 3.000/. ; Foreign office, 3,0001. ; Board of Trade, 4,000/. ; B oar d o f Cus toms, 8,0001. ; Board of Inland Revenue, 17,0001. ; Post office, 16,000/. ; Prisons and Convicts, 4,0001. The ' house would find that M r . M'Culloch had in his report fully explained the case of the increase in the estimates for stationery for this year. That increase was mainly owing to the war with Ruseia • but, independ en tly o f th a t cause, a vast amoun t o f printed forms, mrps, &c., had to be supplied to those military and naval schools which had been recently opened, and the libraries opened in barracks, gaols, &e., also helped to increase the expendi ture for stationery, printing, &c. Mr. M'Culloch very wisely suggested that the books and stationery supplied to public schools and other establishments were of a too costly description. and that if they were of an inferior quality they would answer their pnrpose quite as well. He (Hr. WilsOn) gladly availed himself of that oppor tunity to testify that there was not in the public service any one who was more anxious to promote the public interest than Mr. M'Culloch. (Hear.) The next head of increase was that of prisons and convict establishments, and the amount of the increase was 114,907/. That was a subject which recent discussions in that house rendered peculiarly interesting. The particulars of that increase would indicate to hon. members the steps which had been taken by the Government since 1852. The following was a tabular comparison under this head between the charges in 1852 and 1856 : 152. 1856. Inspection and genera l superintendence £l6, 8 196 £16,783 Government prisoners at home and aproad 275,921 415,908 Maintenance of prisoners ... ••• ... 159,123 161,595 Expenses of transportation .. ... 101,041 25,485 Convict establi s h men t s i n colonies ... 253,586 286,605 467 2374 The house would no d ou bt be surprised 279l at , the vast ex penses for convict establishments -in the colonies, after the abandonment of the transportation system some three or four years ago ; but it ought to be borne in mind that, although they had ceased to send convicts to the colonies, there was yet a very large number of convicts there whose sentences must expire before they could be set at liberty. For some considerable time, therefore, an establishment as vast almost as that which was in existence when the transportation system was abolished would have to be maintained. But that was not all; for, about two years ago, in consequence of the increased cost of living in Aus tralia; the salaries of the officers who superintended the convicts had to be increased, and the maintenance of the convicts had also become more expensive. This country, therefore, had at the present moment to bear the expense of two systems for the punishment of convicts, and it would be some time before one of them—viz., the trans portation system—ceased to be a charge upon the country. The number of prisoners in England and 'lreland during the year 1852 was 12,172 ; in 1856 it was 12,769, being an increase of 597 ; so that no-withstanding the ces sation of transportation for the last few years, the crease of prisoners in the home prisons was only 597, which was rather surprising when one thought of the great outcry which was made a few months ago about the alarm ing increase of crime in England. lion. members were aware of the improvement which had taken place within the last few years in the management of the home prisons. That improvement especially marked the prisons in Ireland, and it was clue in great measure to the visit of the right hon. baronet the member for Carlisle to the convict estab lishment at Spike Island when he was First Lord of the Admiralty. In England • there had been built since 1832 prisons at Brixton, Chatham, and Fulham, and in Ireland at Cork and Pbillipstown, the annual expenditure of which was *80,9171., so that it appeared that more than the whole increase was attribstable to prisons erected since the year in questiOn, and not to any increased expenditure con nected with prisons existing at that time. The next in crease to. which he would refer was that in respect to:public buildings, amounting to 81,030/. Upon palaces in the occupation of her Majesty the increase was only about 3,000/. ; upon those partly occupied by her Majesty the increase was very trifling; and upon palaces not so occu pied at all the difference was also insignificant. The great increase arose under the head of 'buildings for the public departments placed under the charge of the Board of Works. In England thejcharge for public buildings had increased by 68,517/. ; ii Scotland by 12,5001. In the first instance, this increase included the rent of offices hired on the part of the public, which in 1852 was 8,8:321., and in 1856, 42,638/. ; the cost of furniture in 1852 being 23,6001., and in 18:6, 34,9721 This increase had arisen in a great measure from the consolidation of the War Departments, and from the great number of public offices now hired for temp Tarp purposes, such as commissions. The sums altoge ther amounted to somewhat more than the balance he had to account for, but he had only tdren the principal items, preferring not to weary the committee with the small changes involving a decrease of expenditure which had taken place. They arrived, therefore, at this comparison be te een 1852 and 1856: —The increase of which they bad heard so much was 2 ,316,4961, : Transferred from consolidated fund and gross revenue Education Holyhead harbour 180,000 Printing and stationary Prisons and convicts 114,000 Public buildings ... 81,600 £2,446,000 Unfortunately this was not all. There was a very large in crease in the estimates of the present year, and he should now endeavour to show how that increase arose Increase. Decrease. Class I. 24,882 HI. IV. V. VI. ... Showing a net increase of nearly 600,000/. in the estimates of the present year as compared with 1156. To these items he would now call attention. In the first place he found that education figured for a large proportion of the increase. The vote for education this year in excess of that for 1856 amounted for England to 90,090/. ; for science and art the increase was 9,3101. ; the National Gallery, 5,526/. ; the British Museum, 34,000/. In respect to the National Gal lery, he might say in passin g that the increase w hi c h h a I taken place was occasioned by the splendid bequest of the late Mr. Turner, and he thought that no member of this house would begrudge the 5,000/, spent in providing for the magnificent selection of pictures so given to the na tion. (Hear, hear.) Here therefore was an increase of 138,726/. attributable to he items of education, science, and art. Then hon. members would bear in mind that last year a bill was passed by what a portion, not ex ceeding one-fourth, of the police-rates of counties and boroughs was pail out of the consolidated fund. An attempt was made to induce his right hon. friend (Sir G. Grey) to consent to a larger expenditure on this head, and it was not the fault of the House of Commons that such an expenditure did not take place. (Hear, hear.) As it was, the charge for police under the Act of last year amounted to 145,930/. Then, another bill was passed respecting County Courts, upon which there was a strong combination which the Government found themselves wholly unable to resist. They proposed what they believed to be a fair and liberal remuneration to the registrars, but the house doub led the amount they proposed by a majority of nearly two to one. He thought, therefore, that the Government were at all events not responsible for this very large increase of expenditure—(hear) —an expenditure which this year amounted to less than 195,2121 , though it would be some thing less in future years. Then, again, bon. members con sented to a heavy charge upon the consolidated fund in re spect to the salaries of the judges, in which perhaps they exercised a wise discretion, instead of making those sala ries a matter of annual discussion in Parliament. Again, however, the Government had a very narrow escape, a de mand which had nearly been successful being made that the salari es o f th e county cour t j u d ges should be increased by 20,0301. a year. Under the bill to which he alluded the total cost to the country would be, at the very le ust, 231.000/. a year, thus made up :—There would be an an nual charge upon the votes of 114,320/. ; the salaries charg ed upon the consolidated fund would be 76,900/. ; the cona pensation given to judges of local courts replaced by the county courts, 10,0001. ; making altogether, 231,512/. Ano ther point upon which the Government were foiled by the house bad reference to the fees charged in these courts. It was argued that justice should bo made as cheap as possible to the poor man. But he thought, judging from what bad happened, it would be found that, instead of making j ustice cheap to the poor man, Parliament had encouraged an amount of litigation which would compel it in a very short time to reconsider its decision. In most cases he believed, particularly ie the manufacturing and mining districts pos sessing a large population, the business of these courts had increased by 50 par cent. Now, if that increase represented legitimate attempts on the part of small traders to recover their debts, it could not be objected to. But he was told th a small traders and hawkers, who in populous places went from door to door tempting door people to buy upon credit, Were systematically making use of these courts for the collection of their debts. They first induced people to take credit, forcing their goods upon them, and as soon as their customers got into debt to the extent of 20s. or 255. they put them into the County Court, obtained judgment for a fee of 91. or is., and then got the debts collected trough an, officer of te caurt at the rate of, perhaps, ls. per week. In many cases it was found that these haw kers trusted the same persons again, and the same process took plane until the bailiffs of the court in these districts were fast becoming mere collectors of these small traders. He had dwelt upon these subjects at some length because out of the total increase- of 591,6361. in 1857 as compared with 1836 no less a stun than 311,192/. was entailed by the t*o measures of which he had been speaking, passed in the last session of Parliament. He wished to show the House of Commons that it really lay with them, rather than with the Government, to support measures of economy, and that in some instances the Government had been striving to enforce economy while the House had preferred some! thing akin to extravagance. Then, in the present year there was an increase of 24,51 9 /. in prison and convict es tablishments; and in public buildings. also, there was an increase o: 2 , 1,882/. Here, a_oin, was an increase attri butable to the House of Commons, and not to the Govern ment. Some years ago, a committee sat upon the Dublin hospitals. Every one felt that to vote 16,0001. or 20,0001. a-year to the Dublin hospitals, and nothing to the hospitals of Edinburgh, London, or other large towns, was an abuse, and the house determined that the vote should be reduced by 1,0001. a year until it expired altogether. The vote was in process of extinction, and had been brought down in 1853 to 13,0001. when the hon. member for Dublin gave notice of a motion for recurr;ng to the original vote. He (Mr. Wilson) being then, as now, at the Treasury opposed the motion, but he was beaten in a tole r thly full house, and the hon. member obtained the ap pointment of a committee. The committee was fairly com posed, and they recommended that the original vote of 16 0001. a year should be retained, and that it should be made permanent ; so that there again the Government was foiled by the House of Commons, and they had nothing to do but to carry out the views of Parliament. The con sequence was that 19,0001. figured this year in-the esti mates for the Dublin hospitals. Then there was a further additional charge of 12,0001. for the constabulary, and some alteration in the Court of Chancery ; and thus up wards of 560,0001. out of the 593,666/. of increase was a:- counted for. The remainder was composed of small sums, but the increases which he had now complained were— On education, science, and art, &c £90.020 Police for counties and boroughs County Courts 195,212 Prisons ani convict establishments 21,513 Public buildings 24,8e2 Dublin hospitals 19,000 Court of Chancery and constabulary 12,000 The total increase from 18.52, including the estimates for the present year, amounted to no les s th an 2,978 , 0001,— 0r nearly 3,000,0001. in five years upon the Civil Service Esti mates : The amount transferred was Education, &c 532,726 , Holyhead Harbour Printing and stationery Prisons an I con victs,law and justice.. ...... . 486,0 4 Public buildings Of that amount 1,436,0001. represented charges transferred from other branches, while 1,54:5,682/. represented altoge ther new charges or increases upon old charges. He had now stated as clearly and distinctly as he could the grounds upon which these respective increases rested, and he thought that the committee would agree with him that the causes lay in a verysmall compass. The questions.in which the Government were particularly concerned were few in number; they were matters peculiarly fitting for the con sideration and decision of Parliament; they were all ques tions of high policy and not of small Governmental details; they were all questions mixed up with the interests, social and commercial, of the country, and, therefore, they were especially subjects which Parliament ought to deal with. The committee would shortly be called upon to vote items dmilar to those which he had been explaining. They would then have an opportunity of discussing the principles upon which the expenditure of the year was based, and of de ciding whether this large increase of expenditure for edu cation was to be allowed. His own impression was that they would decide, not only that the vote now proposed should be sanctioned, but that it should go on increasing ) Hear.) They would have the opportunity of considering wh -ther they would go on expending the moderate sum of 200,0001. a-year—for, after all, it was a moderate sum for a great country like this to expend—in the improvement of harbours of refuge. (Hear.) He should propose next week the appointment of a committee to consider this subject as a whole question, and to devise some scheme for system atically improving our coasts, with a view both to safety and commercial purp oses , and to the improvement of the fisheries on the coasts of Scotland and of Ireland. If the house should agree to a policy of that description, it would very probably be incumbent on Parliament to vote a con siderable sum of money annually for that purpose, in order that they might proceed on some intelligible and system atic plan, instead of working piecemeal and without sys tem, while Irish members were crying out for votes for Irish harbours, Scotch members for Scotch harbours, and English members all round the coast for harbours for the different places which they represented. (Hear.) They wouldhave an opportunity also of considering whether they would proceed with the improved mode of managing con victs, is hich had led to so great an increase of expenditure; and, judging from the debates which had latch taken place, he had no doubt that they would persevere in that source of expenditure. (Hear, hear.) With regard to public build ings, they all knew that there were three or four which were moat urgently required at this very moment ; we wanted a new Foreign-office, a now Colonial-office, and a War-office, and he thought that they would be unanimously of opinion that those works had been too long delayed. It would be seen, therefore, that all these increases of expen diture related to matters which were peculiarly for the consideration of the House of Commons, and he did not see how they could well escape the dilemma of spending even more looney in that direction than they had hitherto done. Having thus gone through the increased expenditure, for which the house was more particularly responsible, he would now refer briefly to the Government departments of the country, where, if any prodigal spirit existed in the Administration, there would be likely to be found some in crease of expenditure. The committee must be aware that there had been a very large increase of business within the last few years in all the public departments. There never had been a period in the history of the country when there had been so rapid a development of its trade, its inter course, and of everything which marked the material pro gress of a nation as had taken place in this country within the last few years. If he took the exports and imports as affording a broad and tolerably accurate indication of this fact, he found that the exports had increased from 78,076,8541. in 1852 to 115,890,8571. in 1856; that theim ports had increased from 109,345,4091. in 1852 to 172,651,823/. in 1856, while shipping had increased in the same proportion. (Hear, hear,) We had established steam communication with all parts of the world, and we had now a monthly steam communication with Australia, carrying the mails in about 50 days between Sydney and London. We had telegraphs established, or being established, con necting all parts of Europe, and arrangements were in pro gress for connecting the whole of our Mediterranean pos sessions with London by telegr .ph. The terms were being arranged by which we should be enabled to communicate almost with the rapidity of thought with Malta and Corfu. The telegraph was being laid also between the west coast of Ireland and Newfoundland, the service being already complete between Newfoundland and North Ame rica, and being disseminated over the whole of the United- States and Canada. (Hear.) All these matters had led to an enormous increase of labour in the different Government offices. Ho found that in the Board of Trade there were— In 1852 papers received In 18'6 (to Nov. 2 .) In 1852, papers despatched 14,835 In 1856 (to Nov. 20) showing an increase of work of 178 per cent. In the Fo reign -office there were— In 1852, papers received and sent 32,043 In 1856 showing an increase of 25,871 Arid beyond that large additional amount of correspondence which the Foreign-office had to conduct, the introduction of the telegraph system had added almost as much to the labours of that _department, in communicating by that means, as their correspondence in the shape of despatches had been augmented. In the Treasury the increase hod also been very large. Notwithstanding this large increase of business, and notwithstanding th , re had been a revision of these establishments, which led to an increase in the salaries and incomes of the leading officers, who had in tellectual work to perform, there had been little or no in crease in the general amount expended for salaries, Taking the Treasury, the Home-office, the Foreign-office, the Co lonial-office, the Council-effice, and Education Department, the Beard of Trade, the Office for the Registry of Seamen, the Office of Paymaster-General, the Office of the Con troller-General, the Office of Public Works, the Depart ments of Works and Woods, the State Paper-office, the Poor-Law Boards for the United Kingdom, the Mint-effice, the Office of Inspectors of Factories and Mines, the Office of the C def Secretary for Ireland, the office of Public Works for Ireland, and the office of the Paymaster of Civil Ser vices (Ireland), and one or two others, the whole of the salaries in 1852 amounted to 332.8991., ant in 1857 to 332,9761., being an increase of only 771. But that was not ' all. The creation of a new department in the Board of Trade, in order to carry out the Mercantile Marine Act, had lei to an increased expenditure in that department of 12,000/. There was also a new charge of 7,625/. for the inspectors of mines, in pursuance of a bill passed by that house. Deducting these two items, together about2o,ooo/., from the gross ausount of salaries, it would be seen that there was an absolute reduction of 20,000/., as compared with the salaries of 1832. The committee would therefore see that while an enormous increase of expenditure had taken place, it had arisen on items over which that house had a direct control, and had, in almost every instance, ex pressed that opinion, and sometimes put a pressure upon the Government ; while, with regard to that expenditure which was peculiarly within the control of the Govern ment, where, if there was prodigality at all it would have been shown, and notwithstanding the large increase of business there was an absolute diminution in the aggregate salaries of all these public offices of 20,000/., instead of any increase. (Hear.) It was not for him to recommend any thing to the house more than any other hon. member; but there was one particular point which his experience of the Treasury induced him to recommend to the special atten tion of the house, if they wanted to study and promote economy. Above all things, they ought to look with a jealous eye upon every proposition, from whatever quarter it might come, for removing local expenditure and placing it on the consolidated fund. Meer, hear.) He believe s , , I that there was nothing which had led to greater abuse— , nothing which was more detrimental to anything like economy and good public service than that course. The great argument against a common poor-rate payable out of the national revenue was, thatit would destroy all local con trol ; and the same argument was exactly applicable to local charges placed on the consolidated fund. So long as these charges were local, everybody was interested in see ing them reduced to the lowest amount. The instant they were placed on the consolidated fund everybody was try ing to get the largest share of a vote. (Hear, hear.) In 1835,parliament c onse nt e d t o t a k e upon itself the charge of one-half the cost of prosecutions throughout the coun try. So long as they only paid one-half no groat harm occurred; the counties having to pay the other half, the country had the wholesecurity of their vigilance in watch ing the expenditure for that purpose. Unfortunately in 1816 the house consented to take upon the public expen diture the other half. The object might be good, but the consequences had been most prejudicial ; for, the localities having uo longer any motive for vigilance, the sum had increased until at last the revenue was saddled with a quarter of a million a....'yetir as the cost of prosecutions. To such an extent had this gone that the Government bad been obliged, iu the last three or four years, to send round Treasury of for the purpose of checking that expen diture, and they had succeeded in reducing it very con siderably. In Scotland alone, out of 30,0i0/., 5,0001. or 6,005. had been struck off; and in the total quarter of a million the saving was in about the same propel tion. Still, after all, the control thus exercised was very imperfect. Without saying that the county magistrates wished t o swell these ex p en s es , he m ust observe that they were not so vigilant as when the charge was paid out of the county rates ; and he mentioned it as an illustration of the evil and danger of consenting to any removal of these charges from local to the general funds. (Hear, hear.) He would conclude by placing in the hands of the chairman the first vote : 13e,1461. to complete the sum necessary to defray the expenses of royal palaces and public buildings. Sir J. PAKINGTOM said the course the honourable gentleman had taken of making his statement' after the Speaker had left the chair was a very inconvenient one. It was a bad precedent to establish, because - of course if a member of the Government could enter on such a statement at such a time, any member of the house might do the same thing, and thereby great inconvenience might:be 'the result. The hon. gentleman had alluded to the right boil gentleman the member for Oxford (Mr. Gladstone) as living:been the person who had brought the expenditure of the country un der the annual consideration of Parliament, but he (Sir John Pakingtou) must remind the hon. gentleman that the right Lou. gentleman the member fer Buekingliainshiie (Mr Dis raeli) had previorisly announced his in.eution of taking ti same s ep. He (Sir J. Pakiugton) must express the satisfic tion he felt at the statement which had been made by t o hon. gentleman. It was clear and satisfactory. The inere +se in the expenditure had no doubt been caused by the changes in the times, and the improved position of the country. He highly approved of the measure of last year for the ,mpzove *it of the cortnty lohce. That had caused as in reased ex pense, but it had been a most judicious expenditure. With regard to the expenditure for education, he should be glad to see that expenditure increase year by year, provided we re ceived a fall equivalent for the money so spent. He did not believe that. at present we did receive that equivalent. Mr. BRIS OE said the remarks of the Secretary for the Treasury had applied to the expenditure of the last five years but he had said nothing about the expenditure for this Year of 1857. It had been said in another place that the House of Commons had abdicated its functions as guardians of the übl ic purse. He for one protested against th .t imputation, and would do all he could to show how unfounded it was. He wished to know why a charge of 21s, had been made on the inhabitants of Hampton Court for keys to enter the park with ? Mr. W. EWART thought the public ought to have free ac cess to that park. Mr. W. WILLIAMS contended that the course pursued by Mr. Wilson had led to great inconvenience. He had gone into a general review of the expenditure for the civil service; and he (Mr. Williams) contended that they were very extra vagant Mr. AYRTON thought the country was much indebted to the late Mr. Hume for urging the transfer of the charges for merly paid out of the consolidated fund to the•estimates ; and to the right hon. member for Bucks (Hr. Disraeli) was due the credit of being the first Chancellor of the Exchequer who adopted that suggestion. Col. SYKES had no means of judging whether the sums asked for in these votes were necessary or not. Hero was 6,218/. demanded for Hampton Court Palace and grounds ; 7,9601. for the Whitehall buildings, including the Treasury and the residence of the First Lord; and 4,901/. for furnitu e for the officer of the War Secretary, without any explanation being given. The estimates ought to be referred to a commit tee beforehand. to examine them and say how far they were necessary. Mr. EWART concurred with Mr. Wilson that the principle of local government should be as far as po sible carried out in regard to the police and the criminal jurisdicti n generally. He would also extend hat principle to natio,al education, for he believed they would never have a satisfactory system of national education until it was established on the popular principle, paid by the people and managed by the, people. Mr. STAFFORD never remembered any Parliament in which the army and navy estimates had been voted so easily. Remembering the pledges many hon. gentlemen had so re cently given at the hustings, he confessed himself surprised that so little attention had been paid to the great question of retrenchment in the public expenditure, and remarked that apathy and indifference of bon, members in this respect ope rated as an inducement, an encouragement, and even a sti mulus to extravagance on the part of the Government Viscount PALMERSTON came to quite a different con clusion from that which the hon. gentleman had drawn from the course the house had pursued in regard to the military and naval estimates. The hon. gentleman inferred that be cause no great objections were offered to those estimates, hon. members had forgotten the pledges they gave at the hustings to enforce economy, and bad shown a blameable want of industry in not making themselves masters of the de tails of the several votes. He (Lord Palmerston) must beg leave to draw an exactly opposite conclusion from that fact. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) He inferred, and was justified in inferring, that if there had been no prolonged discussions on the army and navy estimates, it arose from this plain and simple fact—that hon. members having paid attention to these details—having exercised great industry—(laughter)— in making themselves masters of them, and in comparing the estimates now presented with those which were presented during the war were struck with surprise —as he knew many were—(loud laughter)—that the Government hal been en abled in so short a space of time, to make such great reduc tions in regard both td the army and navy. Theref re he took it as a tribute of praise to the care and atteution which the• Government had bestowed on the economical ari auge meat of these branches of the public service that the esti mates h d met with the general acquiescence of the house. (Renewed laughter.) And speiking now seriously on the sub ject, that they were satisfied that those who were the mos competent judges and had bestowed attention to the subject, the Government had done as much as they possibly could do in the course of the year that had elapsed since the war in reducing the charges of the public service. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY said no dOubt the Secretary of the Treasury could take what course he pleased, but he did not see that there was any analogy between the cases mentioned by the noble lord, for the army and navy estimates consisted gene-' rally of one subject only,' while the civil service estimates con sisted of a vast variety of subjects, 'embracing consular esta blishments abroad, the queen's Palaces at home, ponds in the Green-park, and a multitude of topics. He should be very sorry to sea the estimates referred to a committee, be cause he knew the result would be to increase the expenses 50 per cent. Sir J. SHELLEY wished to inquire in reference to the buildings in Hampton Court appropriated to the stud. He did not think it was right to call upon the country to main tain that establishment ? • Sir B. HALL said the sum voted last year for the royal palaces was 41,862/., and this year it was 39,690/. As to the Hampton Court Palace expenses alluded to by the hon. mem-• ber for Westminster (Sir J. Shelley), none of the items charged had any refe once to the rasing stock, but was en tirely for the stud of her Majesty's use. In answer to the question of the gallant colonel (Colonel Sykes), who said that 4,901/. had been granted for furniture for the Secretary of War, he had to say that that amount was the sum granted last year. As to the 6,218/. • for Hampton Court Palace, there had certainly been an increase of 783/., arising from the employment of police instead of sentries, and from the repairs of the chapels. - It was never intended that a charge was to be made for admission•to the Hampton-einirt gardens, and all that was intended was, that if gentlemen wished to have keys to pass through the private park, they might have them on payment of 20s. a-year. • Mr WILSON said that the increase in the expenditure on public buildings in 1856, as compared with 1852, was 21,0101.; the chi f items being not far palaces but for public buildings and public offices in England, and the erection of a building in Edinburgh for the Scotch Poor-law Board. Mr. ROEBUCK said that if any knowledge could have been acquired on the subject of the navy estimates it ought to have been obtained by the..bon. member for Northamptonshire (Mr. Stafford), who had taunted other members with igno ranee' and want of industry. But he had not acquired any knowledge on the subject. He had designated the navy esti mates as extravagant, but there should not have been anyone (the hon. member having been in office) who was more com petent to put his finger upon any defects that existed. He ought to be thb last man to sneer and then to propose no re form. He and the Secretary for the Treasury were not unlike two cocks on a dunghill, and might very appropriately have been pitted against each other on the floor of the house. (Laughter.) The hon. and learned gentleman proceeded to discuss the propriety of the course which had been adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury in making his statement in committee instead of with the Speaker in the chair, coming to the conclusion that the course adopted was an erroneous one. Mr. STAFFORD said that while in office he had learned more things than the navy estimates, one of which was to take in good temper the bitterest attacks that could be made upon him. It was true that ho had offered no opposition to her Majesty's Government on the navy estimates, but then it must be remembered that on the hust ngs he had made no professions of retrenchment and reform, for he belonged to that class of country members who were generally supposed to be in favour of prodigal establishments. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) After some remarks from Mr. MOW BRAY, Mr. WILSON said that the sum of 140,0001. was for tho purchase of Burlington House, originally intended for Govern ment offices, bat the idea bad been abandoned, and instead it was applied to the locating of the learned societies that were obliged to leave Somerset House, in consequence of the increase of business there, arising from the succession and other new duties.- ' Time sum of 4,705/., also charged to Bur lington-house, was for repairs and alterations necessary for giving the required accommodation to the above societies. After some observations from Colonel P. HERBERT and Mr. Colonel SYKES pressed for an answer from the right hon. baronet the Chief Commissioner of Works to the question he had put to him. (Hear, hear.) Sir B. HALL said with reference to the comparison of the expenses of royal palaces in 1852 and 1857, and said that .in 1852 the sum was 45,427/., and in 1857 39,693/. being a diffe rence of between 2,0001. and 3,0001. The next question, with reference to 7,9501., was for public offices, and showed a diminution from that of last year of 2,000/. ; and the third question was by whose authority 11. or a guinea was charged to persons for the privilege of walking through Hampton Court-park. The right hon. baronet said that as the park, being private property, and the roadway only used for the convenience of the neighbourhood, the Government had thought it right to compel persons requiring keys to pay for them, the same as was done with reference to other royal parks and gardens. Mr. W. E\VART called attention to the desirability of the Government labelling the paintings of works of art and curi osity at Hampton Court Palace, the SAM 4 as that adopted at the National Gallery and British Museum, &c. Sir B HALL said it was his intention to do so after the articles had been re-classified. (Hear, hear.) Mr. W. WILLIAMS proposed that the charges for royal palaces and public buildings should be reduced one-half, viz., to 17,854/., which would reduce the gross amount to be Toted to 118,312/. A lengthened discussion took place relative to the effect of the amendment if carried. Hon. members not belonging to the Government contending that if it wore carried they would be prevented from reducing the sum again if it should be thought expedient. (Hear.) Mr. ROEBUCK then put the question. is the chairman whether, if the committee reduced this vote by 4,5001. it was competent for the committee to still further reduce it. (Hear, hear.) Thy CHAIRMAN said it was not. (Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that in such cases it was the practice to propose the reduction of the larger sum first till they arrived at the lowest sum. Mr. RICARDO said that the difficulty arose from the fact that they had put together several items to get at a single vote. After the decision which the chairman had given, the only way was to move that he report progress and ask leave to sit again, so that the estimates might be amended. Lord PALMERSTON said that the difficulty was none at all. It was necessary that the estimates should be given in detail, but the votes cannot be taken in detail. Any hon. member objecting to any item moved that the vote be !e -duced by that sum, which was well understood to mean that that item was negatived. All knew what wis meant. Sir D. NORREYS recommended the Chancellor of the Exchequer to take the opini,n of the house on the single item. Mr. WILSON referred to what occurred last year when that hon. member wanted to reduce the estimates by so many sums, The amendment for the smaller reduction was put first, and if that was carried, the motion was made that the estimates shuuld be still furth r reduced. This happened several times every year, and the chairman pw. the smal est sum to which the vote was reduced for the appr val of the house. No good could arie from leporting progress. They could not propose 70 or 80 votes on this single statement. Mr. HENLEY thought the statement open to objection. Mr. FITZROY said, supposing the reductions proposed by different persons—of 20,0001., 10,0001., and 5,0001.; the course would be to put the r. uction of 5,0001., then that of 10,0001., then that of 20,0001. Colonel SYKES said that it was impossible to arrive at a conclusion under the - present rules. He objected to five items, yet, if one of his objections was negatived, it would he im. possible to move another, whatever his objections might be. Mr. DISRAELI said that if one motion f r re d uct i on were decided against the hon. 'member, he could still - rusk" another motion. He did not think the form of the haise was 'much to blame. During 'al ,i cr experience he h a d inever known the aimis as true that to-night; the intiner of items was;i:dush inv./red ; and conreqiela 4 that further analysis-a the vote_sho.uld_be. madsand the hone. 'should come to a decision on a large numEPevotcs. Tt ins a necessary consequence of imparting to the house so muc, l c i information. The best course the Government could do wo n be to accede to the motion, and reconstruct the es timates; He saw no other way out of the difficulty. Their form ila u , been founded on e x p er i ence , an d h a d b een recen tly submitte d to Vie consideration of experienced men, and they should net , in the first difficulty, throw over forms which had, as it wer e, been embalmed for centuries. Sir B. HALL proposed to withdraw the vote, and go on to the next land at the end bring up the same vote i n three divisions. The motion for reporting progress of the first amendment to the vote was withdrawn. The original motion was ° e withdrawn. - The next vote was for 75,781/. f or p u tti ng th e parks And royal gardens in order. - Mr. DILLWYN moved that the vote be reduced bt 8,0691., all the sum set down for Battersea Park. Sir B. HALL said that, when the house voted 'these est i. mates last year, be was urged to complete Battersea-Pe rk and they had their permission to open th e p ar k i n Aligns" , - this year, and he was happy to say that the park was open , and their vote was for the completion of the public works. Sir J. TROLLO PE said that the r i g ht h on . baronet be! promised, during the late discussion, to withdraw the o `,f of 11,600/. to St. James's-park, and y e t thi s was included too the present estimate. Sir B. HALL said that he now proposed to reduce the v,te by the sum of 11,600/, whi c h was p ro p ose d for tn ° same park. Sir F. BARING objected to the confusion which vg : produced in the vot es for the parks by mixing 1 1 . 1 3 expenditure of past years with the present. toed, Mr. BENTINCK said that he ( lid not quite unties if the right honourable baronet intended to withdraw tij a vote for 11,600/. for St. James's Park. If so, he ebV to . reduce 303/. further for filling the pond. He begieu move an amendment to that effect. cell Mr. BLACKBURN said that they had got into 0 a confusion that they could go on no further. He 111°1e that the chairman report progress. Sir 1). NORREYS thought that they should decide th e , question respecting Battersea Park in the first instance ,6 the point was first raised. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, under t t li : circumstances, said he was prepared to accede to b motion. The house then resumed. THE OATH BILL. Sir F. TFIESIGER aske I the noble lord when be tended to introduce the Oath Bill ? Lord PALMERSTON—The first thing on Mondel: fr e . JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES ACT AMENDM This bill was read a third time and passed. SOUND DUES. On the motion fer going into committee on this bill, . a Mr. W. WILLIAMS ro se t o move th a t it b e c ornroi", that day six mouths. He had calculated that these du e amounted to about 11/. 10s. on th e average on each 0 11 ,5 from the Baltic. How then could th e consumer Zi articles from the Baltic, as had been alleged,' be bene 6 7, by the remission of these dues. The whole benefit svO u s o go into the packets of the traders to the Baltic. Ao f concluded by moving that the bill be committed that six months. et' Mr. WHITE seconded the motion. The Baltic In 130 chants ought nut to have this concession at the 8%1 0 of the Britibh public. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the no new argument had been submitted in opposition hbe this measure. The object of the bill was to carry nut ' o f treaty which had been entered into yi t h the Ningi, Denmark in conjunction with France, Russia, Aus t. ' and other poivers. • tbe Mr. WYLD hoped that provision had been made I ° the treaty requiring the Danish Government to keep TIP lighthouses in the Bal ic. a The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. said was very fu:!1 provision. aweacV After a few words from Mr. AYRTON, the ment was n3gatived without a division, and the _A passed through committee, and was ordered to be re!" third time on Monday. The other orders were disposed of, and the house journed at twenty minutes to one. INIIIMIIIIIIMIN _ Country Markets. LIVERPOOL—JUNE 12, u s e To-day there was a poor attendance of the trade , o e showed some disposition to buy, but the busines s 0 , 0 1 limited. Wheat was at a decline of Id to 2d per b l e eo I on last Tuesday's rates. Flour brought extreme pri both sacks and barrels. Indian corn opened i n 'ratber_A; tive request, and commanded the full r a tes of last- 0 ' a fair quantity was taken for shipment to Ireland. • WAKEFIELD—JUNE 12 • the Fresh wheat must be noted, 2s per qr. higher than rates of Friday last. Nothing doing in other articleo.4o Average prices of grain—Wheat, 61s ; bakleY , ; 10/d ; oats, 26s 6d . ; beans, 43s 9;d; peas, 4 88 rye, —s. Od. EXETER—JUNE 12. - K CORN.—Wheat, is 9d to 8s 3d ; barley, 50 to u ° 63. grinding do., - Oe Od to Os Od. Oats, 3s 3d to 30 Beans, Os Od to 0 Od. Peas, 008 Od to 008 Od. - 44 1 FLOUR.—Fine, 45s Od to 46s Od; seconds, 438 Od-t o Od per sack. m et CATTLE. —There was a large supply of bullocks. „dt beef, from 108 to 11s 6d per score ; inferior, Os 6d to 1101roi score ; fat calves, 5d to 6d per lb ; barrennera, Os Oct r br j Od. per score ; cows and calves, 121. to 201. us ; bot h b; calves, Od to 7d per lb.', rearing aalves —s to - 0 sheep, ewes• and lambs, 21. Os to 31. —s per couple; ewe*, to 8d ; wethers, 8d Bid; lambs, —to Od ,per lb. large size, —a to —s ; second size, —8 to ; IN to —a ; suckers, —s to -a. • Rough fat, 4id per. Pork carcases from 9s 6d •to 19s 6d per score. %-JuNE 12. the close of the market. COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton at s. Bell's Primrose l3 0 Bebsida's Hartley 16 6 Canfield Moor l5 3 North' Percy Hartley _l4 0 Canfield Moor flutes 15 3 Walker Primrose l3 9 . Wylam Viral'send, au. d Framwellgate 69 Haswell,— ... . ... . .... . Lambton .... . ,5 Hough Hall .............. • ; South Hatton ............ Tees 4 ▪ 3 Eerier Grainge l4 Wharnell ffe ...... . . l 4• 0 . 'Coundon Tees Birehgrove Graigola • 6 Eden Main ......... . ... 9 Cassop ' 9 , 15 3eaham .................... Ships at market, 140 ; sold, 109. . Wslleencl, Acorn Close l5 3 1 Kraddyll l5 9 1 Whitworth l5 3 Flettoa Lyons Main l4 6 Lumley 15 COURSE OF EXCEIANGB.—YESTERDAY• insterdam.. •• 11 18 Gibraltar ......•••• •• ". I„ug Ditto, three months .. 12 Leghorn .. •• " o'SAP aotterdam ............ 12 3 Genoa ........ •• •• •• •• Antwerp .............. 25 55 Milan •-• , , irtissels .............. 21 55 Ven1c e ......... • •• •• 41/ larnburgh ............ 13 Sy4 Altona •• •• •• •• •S •• •• •• . . Paris •• •• •• •-•••• •• •• •• 2532'4 Ditto, three months .. 25 75 Marseilles 25 75 13ourdeaux .• •......... Frankfort-on-Maine .... 11934 Naples Palermo ........•• •• 130, Messina ... ........ •.* b9Se Lisbon .. ... ..... • •••• b 24 Oporto ............•• •" ,Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres ........ •• New York,6o days' sight Vienna 10 '4 Philadelphia ........ Trieste........ •• •• 10 35 PRICES OF BULLION, TI,I 9 Petersburg 36% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 1 00 0 Madrid ..... .... 49 !Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 6 1 Cadiz .........•• 49 3 4 Mexican Dollars 0 0 0, Barcelona .......• •... New Dollars ....•• 0 5 .• ..•• .• •• • • .• Silver in bars A.DVERTISSMSNT.j—SIGIIT AND HEARING SPEETAC": I O POWERFUL TELESCOPES.—OPERA, RACE, AND PERSOvito• GLASSES.—Messrs S. and 8. .iolomons, opticians, 39,,p, uarle--treet, Piccadilly. Observe—opp o sit e the York o r' W —By her Majesty's Royal Letters P a t e nt for valuable :rO, extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and b i d e limit Telescopes, Camp, , ta ee course, -Opera, ana PersPe c so be GI sses, to know the distances. These telescopes Pg h o t such ,:xtraordina,ry power that some, three andia,half lfl with an extra eye-p ece will show distinctly JUpiter'ol o° o e Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same taese c c 'j o , can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half mill tint, aid an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waitt c° pocket, an 1 aro of lar:2,er, and all si zes, w ith incressio,4 °ewers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851.—A s ;ot able rewly-invente i very small powerful Waistcoat P° e geo a Glass, the size of a walnut, b y w hi c h a person can 7'6;4 and known one and a half mile distant. They answer eo e s. purpose on the race-course, and at the Orera g ° l o o. Country scenery, an d s hi ps are c l early seen at 1 2 to 14 nog, Choy aro inva! ua bl e f or s h oo ti ng, deer-stalking, Yo'nreo to sportime , , g,eattemen, gamekeepers, and tuu ists. Camp, Perspoottve, And R tzeconrs3 biasses, with Weed e the powers. —ln, aln able preserving Spectacle Lenses OI deri/ori 4reatest transparent power The great advantage re' from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes P le d served and strengthened, and very aged persons are to employ their sight at the most minute occuPe o ,,er can see with these lenses of a much less magnify lug ‘ P ° the —and they do not require the frequent changes "', O OO - dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. re - ":,01. can be suited at the mot remote part of the world by s'oci ins one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter , r io stating the dist flee from the eye they- can read small P o Df with it, and those - who have not made use. of specta cle of stating their age. Deafness.—New Diszovery.—T ti° ,,Ar genic Vibrator,- an extraordinarily powerful, small ne 0 11 invented instrument for deafness, entirely different fronso, others, surpasses anything of the kind that as been, or 1 . P oi bably ever can be prod u ced. B e i ng of th e s ame colo u ,y t 0 ,., skin, is notperceptible. It enables deaf persons tooTro distinctly at church a nd at p u bli c assemblies ; the unP le ,,orlo sensation 41 singing noises in the ears is entirely ler a "• r ed• and. t affords all the assistance that possibly could be del the —3 ), Altemarle-street, Piccadilly.—Observe—opposi te York Hotel. W, BIRTHS, or A EON. Oa the 10th inst., at 161, Regent-street, Mrs. 11°I.Qt• On the 11th inst., at Shepherd's-bush, the wife of N' Chaplin, Esq. OF A DAVI:FILTER, .41 On the 11th inst., at the h use of her father, `h a d' Sir Edward Nicolls, K.C.8., the wife of J. H. 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