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oxen tn,nie.,e a quartelly appropriation of ittrt said Fund, es
►More alluded to, under such regulations and In arch man-
ner as Parliament in its wisdom may thick fit; and that the
Receivers of the wine and coal duties should he required to
pay the whole amount by them collected into the hands of
the Chem& rlain, by four equal quarterly payments, ending
respectively on the sth January.„lttb April, sth July, and
10th October; sod' payments to be made within one week
of each quarter, day. . .
In conclusion, your Committee feel themselves called upon
to express an minion• hope,. that the litioidstiuu of the .dif-
ferret debts charged oa the Orphans Fund will he procetded
n eith the least possible delay; and tlapt no further clugges
e•n the Fund will bessnctionstd by Parliament, unless for pur-
poses of great impoitanee,. and bear/vial to the adjoining
tvtrnt leo as well as to the City of Loudon.
Jame 28, 1822.

111PERIIL

HOUSE OP .LORDS, tuesnae, Yet.? ld..
Their Lordship• inell4raenty miselertkrfore flee o'clock.
Lord 'ERISKIINE piesesied a Petitionfrom rert•is lobs-
-I.itantsof the Cities of LOHJOiI and licebtmingler, priying
that the Cruelty to Animal, Bill might be passed Into a law.
—Read sod laid os the table.
The Fres of Courts Oill was read the third time and passed.
9 he London Bridge Water Works Billoud.the Ostilkrtsa
(lic..iland) Drawback Bill. were read a aecuatl.,time,
Mr. trestern and other Members of lbe Haute sof Cow-
"rnut.s brought up a mil, with • message that Iligt Haute bad
ultretd to the iftnmattnseats of their Lordships.-(es believe it
toss 'be Marriage Art Amendment Bill).
CIirELTY TO ANIMA.f....S
Lord Bassi/4s moved the order of the'day fur
the second reading of the Bill for preveuting Cruelty
so Animals. The Noble Lti.rd staled, that if any
difficulties occurred in the Bill, they ,night be ot;-
siateil in the Committee. He had to regret that
this Bill was opposed by those on whose opinions
be act the highest value. In (lazes where cruelty
ens inflicted, the master had no s medy against his
.ervatits, and cruelty was generally exercised' by
et:rooms, not by-the owners of cattle.
The LOAD CiIdIICILLOIL Oaten, that ue nso nn
objection the Bill should be committed.
The Bill was then read • second time, sad
ordered to be committed io-tnorrew.
SMALL NOTES BILL. ..
On the order of the day for the second reading
of the Small Notes Bill being reed—
Lord CAlttf AItVON rose. He did not mean to
oppose the second reading of the Bill, for he con*
t caved that it might to some good, whilst he could
not anticipate any evil arising from it ; but at the
same time he wished to state that it appearedlo
hint that the country batiks would be subjected to
great hardship, for they wuuld be compelled to pay
in gold; sod it did appear to him that, during a
presonre, it would. be almost impossible to procure ,
it sufficient supply, and he fenced that no country
banker would be able to meet the demand. The
Noble Lord thou referred their Lordships, in sup.
purl of his opinion, to a pamphlet written by a
distioguished member of his Majesty's Government
(NIG fluskisson), whose opinions on this subject
must at all times 'command respect. He saw no
reason to suppose tliit ;!e, 'could at present force
into the market at the present price of gold a
'greater quantity of iistpr4 thus was at present in cir-
culation. And was this the only 'measure which
was, to be proposed fur the relief of the agricultural
interests, who were suffering such unprecedented
distress, arising (ir he eves prepared •to contend)
from erroneous legislation'? • He etippoied he would •
be told on this, as he had been told on former oc-
casions, that these evils did not arise from soy
change in tfie currency, but from a superabundance
of prixhice.—(Hear, hear.)—Bat he felt that he'
should be able to prove that the distresses under
which agriculture so unforchnittely laboured, al.
though they might not possibly answer in exactly
the same proportion as cause mud effect, yet that the
one was so closely accompanied by the other, that it
would be impossible to separate them. Strange
ceitai?ly it did appear, that when the issue of Bank
'Dotes was contracted, the sun ceased at the same
moment to shed its fertilising influence over the
rorth...-(Hear, hear.)—He was well aware that Alen.
tiful harvests produced low pricer, but lie hod al-
ways learnt, and such he believed was the opinion
of farmers, that small profits on a plentiful crop
were more desiruble than high pricer on a plentiful
basest. But in the present times there Mewed to
be a most extraordinary connexion between the sea-
sons and the Banlitheeetors. He did not mean to
say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the
Bank Directors were coajurcts, tut it would seem
from the everts 'which were passing ,before their
eyes, and the explanation, which were given,
that they exercised some magic, influence over
the nsountsias , , dells, which cootroled
operations of , nature. It would teem,
in fact, as If some vegetable vampire stalked across
the land. caroling horror and desolation in his
train.—(Hear, beer.)-iollowever, he thought he
could rescue the bounty or nature from the obloquy
which it suited the convenience of ministerial tactics
to cast upon its and he 'thought he could adduce
asolficient reasons to prove why their Lordships
ahowlellaisi with him in hoping, that we should not
only enjoy a Iptentirul hat'vest, which was fast ap-
preaching, but that sit successive harvests should
I.e abundantly prodictille. It has sometimes inits.
pentd that prayers'have been offered op for raga,
and at oilier tinitesfor sabre favourable weather, but
he never yet heard Omit prayers were offered at fit
'famine serd'ocareity. Iv remained for the wisdom
of the present AdMidisteetion to supply that eases
'mime is divinity.—:(lrlears heor.)—The Noble
Lord then enumerated the Various articles of rum,
sugar, timber, coffee. Ac,. end oa all these kind
.4 coMmoditier. except Wargo, the average redo&
lion had beers 25 sod g•Sabi; froth which he thought
it could never be infeWeil lAA over-production
could not be the 'cause of iltelistress now felt, ex-
'olefins as the redoctims throligh every article
which he had alluded to. The cause of that dis-
trees, be contended, was to be foetid in the state of
the +circulating medium, and bethought he should
be able to prove that till the end of the last war a
state of peace was never known as a state of distress
twagocilliure. The Noble Lord then referred to
thr contract price. of the auricles of bread and
meat rifler the wars ending in 1744 and 1760.
which 'hewed a high pike for both bread and
meat iu the little of peace than rinsing the war.
Alter the American war, which for duration and
calamity hod till then no parallel in our his-
Seri, yet the return of pence brought no distress
will, it to ear agriculturists. The Noble Lord again
'Owed to the price* of bread and meat in 1780,