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London, England, 1822-06-25 00:00:00

SUPPLY.
On the motion of Mr.GOULBURN the House went into
a Committee of Supply.
The Resolution for granting 100,000/. for giving employ-
ment to the Irish Pun( was read and agreed tu.
General GASCUYNE coraplaimed that the termination of
the Session had now uea►ly arrived, and no inquiry had been
instituted kite the emotes of the distress in Ireland. noes
what he could learn, the distress principally arose bons a
superabundant population, and the 015105 which had been
adopted •ould by no means be adequate to afford ptrinatteim
relief.

The House Ebro resumed.
TRADE WITH CANADA.

Os the motion of Mr. WILMOT she House went WO •
Committee on she Canada Trade and Government BIM

Mr. BRIGHT objected to ruseeding at that lat• period
of the Sento. with a Bill of such vast import■ose, whidt
tended to overthrow the Constitution of Canada.

Mr. ELLICE said be had hoped that this Hon. Friend
would have abstained from such an observation, until thy
Bill was printed, and its real objects known. He could
slate, that that Bill would not affect the rights or immuni-
ties of any man in Upper or Lower Canada.
Mr. BRIGHT said, is his opinion the Bth should stand
over emit the next Session, until the people Canada no-
derstood Its object.
The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered to
be taken into further consideration on the sth July.
The Irish Hearth and Window Tax Repeal Bill was resi •
third lime, and passed.

INFLUENCE OF THE CROWN. •,
Mr. BROUGHAM rose i■ positions* of a notice he had
gives. He commenced by stating, that the House had bee."
for the last season notoriously, lie would not my unprofitably,
engaged In an inquiry into the amount of our immense sod
overgrows establishments. It was nut unnatural that in Is-
westigating the causes of the wide-spreading distress, our at-
tention should be priocipally directed to that 'kw of that
subject which threw the most light on the evil of wake-lima
people complained ; but it did appear to liPn, without
nadervaluing that consideration, or wishing to blame those
whose exertions in that House lead been so laudably directed
to that part of the subject, and still less wilhoul lbw
slightest disposition to throw blame on the people, who allt
properly demanded t►e Inveetigstion—neverthelem it dud
appear to him that the House of Commons wool.' ill die,.
charge their duty to the country, sod not demon•rrate that
they were actuated by the same sound canal i :otiose' principles
which influenced the conduct of our ancestors, if they *en t-
ested that Session without taking a view °four eatablishawats
in that light which appeared to him infinitely more perri-
cious—he meant that increase of improper influence whieii
tendril to destroy the balance of the constitution, to Worse
upon the interests of the people, sad to take away from them
the hest) security to prevent the recurrence of those abuses
into which we have been so many so noxiously ingots.
iug.—(Hear, hear.)—lt was with a view to remedy that de-
fect, the wily one, indeed, as appeared to him io the conduct
of has side of the House within the last five year., that behold
given notice of that motion to which lie now begged to call
the attention of the House; and he should commence by
moviiig that the celebrated resolution of 1781) be read, did
he not know that it must be present in the minds of every
Member of the House on the mere mention of that questiots.
It was, however, upon the same principle he should prnetn
♦iz. that the influence of the Crown had Increased and eoght
to be diminished, and if there wire reason sufficient at that
time to induce the House to adopt that resolution, what ter,
fold reasons did there not exist to follow it op at present !
(Hear.)—He uodonbiedly felt some difficulty at the outset,
us account of the sort of language which was sometimes
used is that Howe, sad was repeated as often ao the gear-
boo was mentioned. We were asked, did we really *oppose
that gentlemeiropposite should be so ante' nitro! of their deity
to their conatitoents and themselves, sr to vote in one less•
air while In office, and differently stilly they were eat
It was considered quite impossible that gentlemen allies ited
dignified cbaractem abould •Iluw the mere paltry areideo-