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CRIMINAL CODE

Lord SIMIOUTII ruse fur the purpose of correcting all er-
emaciates staternmit which was contained in a Petition pre-
sented by a Noble Laid opposite ..I.4asil Holland) un the pre-
vious evening from Brilfoid. lii that Petition it was staled
that the number of commitments within the three )ears end.
lug with 1813, amounted to 151,157, while in fart they slid
not exceed 6,000. It was also stated that the convictions
within the sante period amounted to 11,510, whereas by the
documeuts laid on Ibrir Lordships table, it appeared that
during she vexes 1816, 1617, and 1810, the capital cootie-
i •••• s amaiii.steil to not inure than 3,446. la fact, the capi-
tal convictions during the last 14 years did nut equal the
stated in the Petition as haying taken place within
three years. Ile was the more desirous to correct this erro-
neous impremion, because the mislatclocids upon this head
were numerous sod 'gross beyond any thing their Lordships
could imagine. lis one work which hail acquired consider-
able popularity and circulation, the number of the cosmic-
lions was stalest as that of the commitments, and the slum-
ber of persons estimated was stated as of those who were
convicted. These few points he stated for the purpose of
putting the House on their guard against such misrepresen-
tations._

Lord HOLLANn said he was not aware of the incorrectness
of the stattmenis contained to the Priitian, hot hr knew
that many of those Gentle ineu nib,' signed the Pclition halt
paid pailieularallenliusi to the subject.
The Earl of SttascEsucar presented a PeliliOn from the
Ward of Aldrate, fur a revision of the Criminal code.—
Laid oti the table.

ALIENS AND DENIZENS
Os the suggestion of Luta Iloi.t.Asu,
consented to postpone until Alunday the stood rendlng of
Ilse Aliens null D.us.•ns
F.arl Fowls presented aV. 111 ion f4-ow Shrewsbary against
imp akerstioas Ili She Owl Duties.
Thu Iluu►e awn auljuunsed.
--Ad.--
110E7SE OF COMMONS, lIIIIMSDAT, SLascx IS.
41. DUTIES. 4

COAT. ...
Mr. KENN TOY prerentrd a Petiliuu from the Burgh of

its
ly
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operated
persons
duissmi,
rilyerocost lisnaogifeoig
against
etitiehietfin,ei.r)
isroritat.
Btis),
thecr lesses:l:i
iriuheeoberf: :ibct
for
oaarrd:t:
ell,
ill.
need
rs
might
i,ht)
bawc:ilt;r4rreeeficg,
re-
lieved
sal
url
ty
bu
ity wa+ too large fur
their limited tradeqliumatilotle purchase, and these
dt
the peculiar obj.cts of indulgence, were obliged to
purchase silt at a high price. The rich bleacher
purchased at 7s. per bushel, by purchasing a larger
quantity, whilst the poor bleacher
.„was obliged to
pay i7s. per bushel, his circumstances mud the
state of his business not enabling I to purchase
larger quantity. This was a grievance, omit
grievance which fell upon those least ailte ro
bear up against it ; hut if the quantity was re-
duced from fifty bushels to twenty.. it would
meet with the concurrence of those persoici, trial
relieve them from a heavy, unequal, and mo—
ons tax. The tax, as it affected the trishiriirs.
should he also, he thought, the subject of regula-
tion ; but, as far as lie was concerned, he would
not move any thing on the subject this Sesriph. Iles
did not abstain from the subject from may appre-
liensions. From the state of the plot: feelivg;
and the nature of the tax itself, he was convracrit,
that if he moved the total repeal of the tax. ho
would meet with considerable support in that
house : tt wits, therefore, not the waist of support
that deterred him, but it was a sense of the import-
once and the 'necessity of keeping up the pub-
lic revenue, awl keeping faith with the public
creditor. But were the finances of the coun-
try in a different state, and had the puhlii•
expenditure been reduced mote than it wee; and
such as it ought, he would have resisted the
tax, as impoldic, as oppreiwive, as iojorions to
trade, rind grievous to the poor. With respect to
the relief afforded to thu agricultural interest, it
was right tO elOte, tile, there was said to
rgncnl-
turslipts 12,875 bushels at half-a-crown per bushel.
lu consequence of this reduction, several agricul-
tural exprriusents hod been wade, and those

asofralttahle experiments were now in a fair course of
of sal. lie coucluded by moving—
" That an seeostast be laid before the Noose of the quas-
i -iv 14,0 &nested, dot, free, in Englainl, during the year
.+rlBi elistinviishiog the purposes for which the sail had
hcfm so delivered!'
Mr. Wai.t.cce said, he concurred altogether with
11w Ifieht Hon. Gentleman's statement, that the
Domes bore a very great proportion of the
I..stslof• revenue, and could aid be spared...-
11e deprecated the distusision of the subject,
heesnse it could lead to no good, but. us.
the contrary, would he injurious. The House
would bear in mind that every question con-
nected with it had already undergone a long in-
vestigation in the Committee. The objections to
the tax were sifted in that Committee. and the re-
sult of that investigation was, that the tax could
not be dispensed with. Much had been said as to
the oppressive effects of the tax ; but he would say,
OM tatting it m conjunction with other taxes,
there was not that disproportion which was stated,
nor did it press heavily or partially on the pee le.
As far as manufactarers were concerned, whets a fa-
vourable state .4 things would permit it, souse mu-
&fictitious might be made; but experience haul
proved that the •expectatiosts on this subject so
much held out, asid the hopes so sanguinely enter-
tnet!, were fallacious. When they were called oil
to relsovethe agricultural interests from the tax, the
most impatient fakeers were• sanguinely aliticip.itril.
Three millions of acres were to have been im-
proved. and salt was to have bjen purchased in
vast quantities; but what was the result •? About
:MO tons of salt was purchased for agricultural pur-
'Mari.; and this, comparKl with all they-hod heard,
amounted tat nothing. Su far he was justtlable
in
'drug, the effects anticipated did not follow the
redaction of the duty ; and though the revenue was
injured., the agricultural interests were little im-
proved by the measure. It had been stated, that
front the great .consusuption of the article. Govern-
ment would he enabled to reduce the duty, bu(fur
the present 1w was coostimed. front all that had
dossed, from all he had heard and seen, that this
was a delusion. Ile bad, nuked, Coo doubt but
that in future years the frlOUfttS of the country
might realize that which appeared hopelrsa, lissom-
ly, that the Government might derive a great re-
venue rroM sett, consistent with the cheapness of
that dick and the wishes of the country. As to
the fisheries, every relief should he exteudrd to
them, and to the entire subject should be afford-
ed, and was afforded, lm the Cot iiiii Atm where
the subject was fully investigated, and whose opi-
nions, founded:is they were on the most ample and
the must impartial considerations the subject could
receive, should go a great way indeed to influence
the upinMns of the House and the country.
Mr. CUStWEN said there was no like so oppressive,
sod none flout which the Country was more anxious
to he relieved, as the Salt Duty. The Right Hun.
Gestlemais who spoke last had vairl,llsat the tax was
nut injurious, and alluding to the relief given
to agriculturists 'last year, he expressed some (hoop-
Isonstinent- as to the, quantity sold. He (%It.
Comets) did nut expect that tlw measure would
have au 1041olitnotous (sperm . 'Great public ad-
sisotages are not always seen the moment they pre-
sent tltemstivesa-men are "SOfflellilitS slow 10 tin-
trace those objects that tend to their greatest good.
lie bad acted on the stilsject from the eaggestions
of a worthy and lamented Baronet. now no more
(Sir T. Barnard), and the year that the duty was
abated' lind
there were but 80 tons of salt purchased; its
the resent year, however. there were 308 toils pur-
chased for agricultural purposes. There were, he
said, upwards' of 1,100 agricultural experiments
made, and he was sure that not one of them would
fail to answer every object that hall been predicted.
lie would„ he said. heartily rejoice to see the period
whim a tax so mach opposed to the interests and
the feelings of the casuistry would be altogether re-
pealed. As far, however, as Millistgeoce had been
exten&d, favourable result. have followed. Last
year there was ti great increase of consuniption fur
agricultural purposes, and he had ssu doubt but
Chit that consmsnption would increase tenfuldaw-he
bad no doubt but that salt would he universally
toted fur those purposes. Pressing as it did upon
else public, it was to be hoped that the Government
would reduce this tax at 110 very distant day.
Mr IDATLNrORC implored the itlgla Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. Wallace) to bring in a 1;111 on the
'object ; he implored hint to consoler the iisterests
of the agricolstnists. Heavy as the lax was, much,
he thought. might he done with safety, to
lessen
its etieci•—and surely every thing ought to be those
fur tie relief of the country.
N FAIT said. that persons complained to
hum that the regulations were so 'reunions, that
they would rather forego the advantages they held
our, thaw subject themselves to the sseitattust and in-
mposed - them.

bushel. lie hoped 161 when the Irish duties came
tinder consideration, rouse arrangement would be
mode respecting the stall duties, for the mutual
benefit of the three coutitries.
After a few words from Mr. Tani AV M g,
Mr. VssEir Ferocitooto said, there wag one
ob•ervatiou of the Hon. Gentleman .(Mr. Calc►aft),
which he could not pass over unnoticed. That
Hon, Gentleman had alluded to the salt *sties
in 1
In laud, and he threw out a hint as to the propriety
of increasing that duty. Whrii the certain taxes
were fixed for a period ail) years, at the time of
the Ultimo, that agreement aid not at all imply
that those duties were to be increased at the end
of the twenty years--.they were fixed for that pe-
riod to cairn the irritation, and to dispel the ap-
prehensions felt in Ireland at the time of the
Union. He was sure the House would see the im-
policy and the iiiiustice of increasing those duties.
No tax would be more destructive to the best interests
of Ireland than an increase of the salt duties—it
would be destructive to her fisheries, the most im-
proving source of her trade, and it would be destruc-
tive to hur provision triode. He protested against
it, and he felt it his duty to take this early oppor-
tunity of avowing his determination to oppose ally
attempt that might be made to increase those ditties
in 'lreland. Great as the tof the salt duties
were, he would rasher give them up altogether, and
meet, through some other means, the necessities of
the State, than to •object Ireland to a tax which
would tend to the destruction of her best in-

wrests.
Sir Jon N NF.w wt. !mi.', if there was a revision
of the Irish (twits, there should Ise oleo a revision
of the Act of Union. He would be then prepared
to strew the whole was Wooled upon wrong views—
that the interests of Ireland were sacrificed —that
the objects held out to her were never accomplished,
but that the entire was founded on falls:ions and

di lustre principles.
Mr. Cs t.crtarr rose to explain. Ile assured the
Right Hon. Gcoolentan and the Ilion. Baronet tout
he did not at all mein to propose any thing inju-
rious to Ireland.
After a few words from Mr. GastaeLL, the mo-
tion was put sod carried.

lIESSACE FRONT THE LORDS.
A Message horn the Lords requested the attend-
ance of David Ricardo, F.►q. on Friday next, at
their Lorthhips' Committee upon the affairs of the
Bank.
Mr. Ricardo received permission to attend their
Lordships, in obedience to their Message.
WISH 'WINDOW TAX.
M►. HUTCHINSON rose to present a Petition from
the Inhabitants of the City of Cork, praying for a
• total repeal of the Window Tax. He begged
leave to cull the most serious attention of the Chan-
cellos of the Exchequer to.the prayer of this Peti-
tion. It wus signed by *very large number of the
inhabitants of the populous and commercial city
which he lied the honour of representing. They
shortly, but urgently. appealed to the just►ce and
humanity of the House to rid them of a tax which
they justly conceived was most pernicious and fatal
to their true interests. former Chancellor of the
Exchequer had distinctly stated that this tax was
only to colitioue fur three years, or during the war.
The redemption of this pledge of good faith the Peti.
bones, indeed the whole people of Ireland,solicited
from the hands of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He
could state upon his own recruit aid actual know.
ledge, that no tax in operation was more injurious
tit the health of the people of Cork titan this of
which they how complained. He could state apart
his own knowledge. that the efforts of the people
to reduce the oppressive burden of this tax by shut-
ting up their windows, had had the sad mid melan-
choly .41(.11, by excluding the means of proper ven-
tilation in their dwellings, of increasing in a very
serious degree the ravages of the contagious fever
which had so unhappily prevailed to a dreadful ex-
tent in the south of Ireland. It was impossible
then not to see the extent of the melancholy ope-
ration of this Act ; it was not alone oppressive in its
immediate amount upon the impoverished classes of
society. but it was dreadful in its ulterior conse-
quence in augmenting that own of misery which
was already too severe and insupportable, from the
extensive nature of the contagious disorder which
so long affected the inhabitants of the Sister King-
dom. He knew that it was usual to call on a Mem-
ber who sought the repeal of a particular tax, fur a
substitute in its place ; he trusted that no such ap-
peal would be mole to lain lin an occasion like
this, where he hail shrwts that the health of the
Petitioners yrus vitally uthcted by the existing sys-
tem, and that in the 'oil it would be foss, al no
amount of revenue could be considered as a com.
',rogation for the evils it entailed on► the people...—
lie therefore tumidly hoped that, situated as these
Petitioners were, the Right Hon. Gentletnim would
• constdera;

would postpone the committal of the Bill until the
paper usoved fur WRY fortlowning.
The Ciroiat.i.oa of the Exam:man could
not see the necessity of delaying the Comnittire
until the production of the paper alluded to. This
fill was for the regulation of Exchequer Whiners ;
any others could lie made the subject of separate
cutisideration hereafter.
Mr. GRENEELT. said, that before the Speaker
left the Chair he would slay 14 few words on this
subject. and more particulary so in consequence
of what had been said on a former night, during
the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Of the absence he made no (mlll4BlO, for he was
reedy to admit the Right Hon. Gentleman to hR
most exemplary in his attendance in That 'jou".
Hr stated on the occasion to which he alluded, and
he now repeated his statement, that the measure
which the Right Hon. Gentleman had now in pm-
press respecting the balancer of public money in
the hands of the Batik, was not that which the
House and the country had a right to expect, from
the repeated declarations made by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer in the course of the present Ses-
sion, and particularly on the lit February, and
on the Friday before the last week, when he (NIG
Grenfell) had alluded to the subject. He would
unequivocally assert, that the statement and decla.
ration of the Right Honourable Gentlenhot were
calculated to mislead and disappoint (he did
not mein intentionally) the people. Ile would
appeal to the recollection of the Right Ho.
'mumble Geistlemen awl the House, whether, on
the two occasions to which he particularly el-
toiled, the (louse were led to expect such a mea-
sure as this ? Ile would ask, if the politic out of
doors hind any expectation (for he must speak hypo.
thetirally) ilia this was the measure which wad held
out to them ? He *mild ask whether, Particularly
on the two last occasions, the universal utalerstand-
ing was not to this effect :—That whereas the
amount of public balances accumulating in the
Bank is seven millions, and that it becomes advisa-
ble to institute a measure by which six millious.out
of the seven millions shall be rendered available to
the public—in other words, to give the public a
saving equivalent to the interest of the six tuillions
out of the seven millions accumulating in the Bank ?
Ile would appeal to all who heard the Right Hon.
Gentleinan, whether that was not the way an which
his promised measure was uuderstood at the time
he mentioned it in the House ?—(Hear.)—He
could refer to a circumstance which must bring this
matter distinctly within the recollection of the
Right Hon. Gentleman. When he (Mr. Grenfell)
stated that lie would not be satisfied until all the
balances in the hands of the Bank were rendered
available to the public, did not the Right Hon.
Gentleman state in reply, that his intended mea.
sure would not merely be confined to balances of
Exchequer bills, but would embrace all the public
balances--(//ear)—and that its effect would he to
take out of the hands of the Batik the use of six
millions out of the seven millions to which the
public balances amounted, leaving the Bank the
use of one million as a remuneration for their trou-
ble in transacting the public business ?—(Hear.)
—Now let the House consider whether this Bill
amounts to the promise which had certainly been
made of it. Will it give the public a saving of the
interest of six millions 3 for that was the whole
question. He repeated it would do no such thing,
and that the utmost it could possibly achieve would
be a saving of the interest of 3 millions, instead of 6
millions, making a difference, therefore, as against
the public, of one-half of the promised advantage.
The Master of the Woods and Forests (%Ir. Husks..
son) must have understood the Rt. Hon. Gentleman's
plan in precisely the same way as the House did.
He had stated, that the Bank during the war held
public balances, to the aggregate amount of be-
tween 11 and 12 million', and for the use of the
interest accruing out of these balances he had al.
ways contended in behalf of the public. To say
that this Bill gave the public any fair average belie.
fit of the balances in the Bank, was to assert a
mockery. The Bill only touched one of these ba-
lances—they amounted in number to 56—the
Right Hon. Gentleman's plan excluded 55, slid
his Bill only embraced one; his Bill was therefore
a contradiction of his statement, and the House and
the country were misled by a promise of deriving a
benefit equal to the interest of six millions, when
the measure through which this improvement was
to be effected could only touch three millions.—

( Hear.)
The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER Said he
would make very few observations in reply to the
Hon. Gentleman. The very tittr of his Bill, cer-
tainly the Resolution he moved for in the Com-
mittee of the whole House, was the best answer to
the Hon. Gentleman's observations. The title was
for the application to the public service of a part
of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund.
It professes solely to ',ler to the Exchequer bills

fact, subject to the Bank debt. and the anew an
the Consolidated Fund. In WO, when the Bank
had the benefit of public balances, amounting on
an average to eleven or twelve millions, Mr. Perce-
vat conceived lie had made a good bargain when
he got a loan of three millions free of interest.
The present arrangement by this measure was, he
tl gat t, still nmre advisable with
against any forther reilliciirm of their balances, if
it should appear desirable to iwtke such reduction,
protect view
tlie to
oflatshlke
pintpisbiir ink r, 't*. The hill did jh
it milc went to regulate one imporvoit branch of the
fondle tankers. '
Mr. TIERNEY said, that the Right Hoe. Gen-
neutron had not said one word in answer to the main
eprptiatinfathiiosnliorti.heF Friend's
stautling. when he give notice of his plan respect-
Itsen.fvGAtei:;ll;mitiuni'ssieuit'deari:
ing public balances early in the Session. Was not
that understanding that the Right Hon. Gentle-
man meant to take six millions train the seven mil-
lions of public balances in the 11.itik, and render
the intarest.of that amount available to the public ?
To this plaitt.qUestiou respecting the Right lion.
Gehtleurait's understanding at the lime, his Hon.
Friend had
,received no answer, or rather the an-
swer given was no answer at A laugh.)—
The balances in the hands of the Bauk were of
two descriptions—one. which referred to the sums
in the Consolidated Fund, anti the other to the ge•
tiara' balances. The operation of the Right Hon.
Gentleman's Bill was to he restricted to the Ex-
chequer balances, and lie said lie saw no necessity
for carrying the operation further at present. He
was convinced this was not the opiuion of the Right
Iluti.Gentleruati at the time he first gave notice of
his plait ; he was convinced that he then meant
to act fairly by the country in this transaction.
But after he had given his notice, and then
talked about it to his friends at the Bank, he was
instantly obliged to back out, as it were, of his
own proposition, and reduce it one half.—(fleur.)—
By his Ilan, he asserted a saving of six millions was
to take place, which was to go to discharge the
three millions Bank luau, and the charge on the
Consolidated Fund. Then wheat the Right lion.
Gentleman came down with something like sit ex-
plicit proposition, the six millions appcared to he
reduced to three millions.—(Here she Chancellor
of the Exchequer shook his head, irs taken of dis-
sseat./—The Right Hon. Gentleman may shake his
head, but he could not shake the fact.--Illetri.)—
He says he will have three millions out of the six
millions which he contemplates, available fur the
Bank loan; but he (Mr. Tierney) disbelieved that
any such excess of three millions would be found
in the plan which he contemplated. The other
three motions that lie contemplates, do riot, in fact,
exist ; he cannot realise them. To talk of any ar-
rangement which did not embrace the whole aver-
ages of the quarter, was to du the work by halves.
When the Right lion. Gentleman was questioned
respecting these identical balances, on a former
occasion, lie distinctly said lie meant to refer the
arrangement of them to the Bank Committee.
What he (MN Tierney) meant to suggest was, that
'the Right Hon. Gentleman would, for the present,
postpone the committal of this Bill, and refer the
subject to his own Finance Committee, who could
make a report in a week at furthest. lithe Right
Hon. Gentleman and the House refused to accede
to Chia postponement, std now went into the Com-
mittee, they would be recording their votes on an
understanding, that, by the effect of tints arrange-
ment, they would get rid of the Bank loan of three
millions, which lie knew, which the Right (lost.
Gentleman himself knew, was utterly impiacticii-
ble, according to this plan. Would the Right
Hon. Gentleman consent to refer this quest' of
the balances to the consideration of his own Fitiatice
Committee? If he would not, then he (Mr. Tier-
ney) must move as au amendment to his motion,
that this Committee be deferred until Monday
se'nnight.
The CttsNeit.i.oo of the EXCHEQUER replied,
that his Bill went to regulate the whole questiou
respecting the Exchequer balances. and lie could
not consent to postpone it for the object alluded to;
at the same time, he felt no difficulty in admitting
that the whole of the other balances might come
very shortly under the consideration and regulation
of the House. This would form no ground what-
ever for delaying the operation of the present Bill.
Mr. TIERNEY said, that all he wanted was to
know the effect of the principle of this Bill. If
the Bill were referred to • Conitnittee, be would
pledge his existence they would make no such re-
port as the Right lion. Gentleman had made in
anticipation of its efficacy.
Mr. LUSHINGTHR explained that, when the Hon.
Gentleman opposite (Mr. Grethen) had alluded to
this subject on a former night, he (Mr. 1..) had in-
formed him, that of the six milliumi whit it this plats
would, he was confident, make available fur the
public. 3,209,0001. or 3,300,000/. was to INIY off th"

that they would be subject to the usual
Mr. MABEKI.Y desired to know whether iii.
Bank had not received an interest at the rite IX
slid. on these bills, when the public only re.
craved yd, ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER reVied,
that whenever they had held over those bill., thsv
received the interest according to the regular al.
rasigement made at the time.
Mr. MARERLT said, lie understood it we. Mi•
mitted that where the public only (lensed a.l 1,,..
lefts, of id. the flank had cool rived, Gip:, the o
tore of their bargains, to get per day on lier.e.
Exchequer bills, The public brought their hitls,
received their interest at the rate of 1 ; the If lilt
held out and got 2.P.: so that the difference, iirora,l
of being in favour of the public, oho poichawd
with reel capital. was in favour of the Beide, whose
capital was formed by the working of its paper-mill.
Mr. WILLIAMS thought it now quite clear, that
after the public were shut out from receiving lll-
terest on Exchequer bills, which hail been held
over after a certain day, the Raids continued to ob.
lain an exclyive amount of interest.
Mr. GaztirELL again protested against the pro.
vicious of this Bill. Why was its operation re.
stiicted to the saving of the interest on six millions.
which was expected to accrue out of the Exchequer ?
The amount first accruing wee, after the arrear on
the Consolidated Fund was settled, to be applied
to the payment of the Batik loan. He referred to
the quarterly accowits, and said it was impossible
to carry this saving higher than three millions by
the present Bill. He pointedly condemned the
limitation of the operation of this Bill, and ;isked
why it should not be made to ripply to the whole
amount of the growing produce of the Commit.
dated Food ? lie could see no reason why this
should be the case, except that the attempt to
make it so, however beneficial to the public, would
trench upon the profits of the Batik.—( Hear.)
Tke CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that this Bill was made only by way of eviler'.
ineut, and its principle may hereafter be extended
to the other balancer. lit his present Ow lie kept
in view the principle of the tiegociation between
Mr. Percival and the Bank, id 1808.
Mr. MABERLY said, that from the ambiguity
of the explanations offered in the Committee, he
was more than ever convinced of the necessity of
referring the subject to the Finance Committee.
Mr. llcsistsson said, the system now propcoed
protected the interests of the public creditor as
much as any that could be devised.
Mr. Geetirst.i. asked, would the Right Hon.
Geotleman (Ole Chancellor of the Exchequer) state,
why the same principle could out 'be acted tni,
with respect to 11.000,0001. which was about
to be adopted with refeience to the SUM of
6,000,000/. ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, as we
understood, declared that such a proceeding would
be inexpedieut.
Mr. GRENVELL said, he could see no reason,
an experiment, limited to 6,000,000/. keying been
made, why it should not be carried further, to the
whole amount of 11,000,000!.
The House then resumed.—Report to-morrow.
BANKRUPT LAWS.
Mr. J. SMITH rose, pursuant to notice, to move.
fur leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Bankrupt
Laws. He observed, that, in calling the attention
of the House to this subject, he meant not to enter
into the history of those laws. There were, he he.
lieved, many Gentlemen in that House who belies.
ed they were not interested in this question—be-
cause they imagined that the Bankrupt Laws did
imt affect them. It was, however, very difficult to
say, who were, or who were not, subject to them.
In fact, persona who were never directly connected
with trade its their lives, might, as appeared from
recent decisions, he subjected to the operation ef
those Acts. That a revision of the Bankrupt Laws
should take place, was most important to the in-
terests of the commercial world, and, he would say
more, to the interests of humanity. As nu discus-
sion wits likely to take place, on the present occa-
sion, he should say no more at prtsent —hut move
" That leave be given to bring in a Bill to altar sett
amend the laws retinue to Baukrupts."
Leave given.
JUNIOR LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY.
Sir NI. W. RIDLEY rosy, In pursuance of the
notice lie had given, to move that nu Address lie
presented to his Royal Iligimen the Prince Regent.
'braying that lir would be graciously pleased to
older the number of iiinior Lords of the Adult-
!rby to be reduced. He felt great difficulty, at
all iiines, in offering himself to the House, because
lie had not confidence enough to %impose that lie
had alitlitie. sufficient to cootie their attention.
But, on this occasion, his task breams wore that)
ordinarily light, on account of the insportance of
the subject itself; fur the House, I,,oksogi to the

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convenience imposed moor them.
, - „, , carel4leiheir ;nto Ins immediate constderation.— It professes s.lely to refer to the Exchequer bilis i public, 3,Y.W.U0U1. or 4 eitMot"," V." L" P", "" •"- "', •""r —••-- • --- ---- -- -
Doctor Pott.i.trious conaemnea one tax, as
Ileshould say nu more maw, as ewe of the Mem. account, which was certainly only one (though a I wear on the Coosoliciated Fund, stud 4,700,u0u1. niagnitude of the principle which his fUntinti iii
'Plir' ir'
01/110ted to every principle of politicel economy.
It was a tax upon Illanufactutti—it wart a
tax spoil Ole es
it essariee of Ide—it was a tax
which fell I a 'sr unite the . 'Florence«, of the
ye •. wady given 'ratite of a morning upon this sub-
duly iliminuilred Use cousumption of' tin article. . The Petitioners
to a country, a owitinercial and runtime cottony,
the rya was most permit:Misr and impolitic. It bore to the *abject. be Petitioners alluded
hard upon the people; it impeded the progress of im I.b , the
.- Cltatli
VIII fisheries; it bore su heertly cm the poorer order* Ptrael .} . "me • •
ot sncietv, diet lie was alive every crafter tont at
least an htottual 1111111 Of 9.1. per 1111111/111 on the single hers fur the city of Dublin (Mr. Shaw) lied ol- very important one) of the 55 or 56 accounts of 'togo in reduction of the three millions Bank loan. voiced, would forget the individnel who brought
jeCt, but fttrel..y in the mean time entreat the . ~puce,
balatices. The Hon. Gentleman was wellnawerei:
weer—
House then divided, when the number, it forward. Ile was also encouniged to intro.
Pen- the niece thethe public bale ces i
ens attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer the hands of the Batik hod been reduced to via or
to theduce the qtirstiou, by the recollertion of the re-
, .
with Foe the Chance Hoe of ells Esettequer's Motion -•• MS vileetsble minority, winch, nu a former. occasion.
seven 1111111011 S; he must also know, that re- *Pt*" Ii
repeol of the Income Tax, which, as well. as the spect to several of these balances, the autos for
M'lndow Tax, was a war Mearure, and, a• such, instance from the Court of Chancery, its the hands
llor of the Excite. of the Accomptatit-General, and the moneys fur the
quer. 'I wo bombed thousasid pounds oar the public creditor, he had no control, as their ap.
whole amoral iiroduce of this tax in Ireland, and
surely if the Noble Lord's statemeot of the gollfll4l. propriation was specifically enjoiiird by a distinct
Act of Perliament Ile could assure the House Msjority
On our re-admission to the tonere, we fo7u4nd
the House al the Committee on thus Bill.
Mr. TIERKaY pressed the Right Hun. Gentle.
witch. 14 salt ; and it pressed au heavily Mli the mist- 4.
condition
turret. Of the country that strangers hail raodled ..e. in its
mir &Items, sod they were 'lighted to do so limo
the enormous salt duties to which of
_toe. revenue. be credible, such a that in tne
rill could
ri_ not hie bro_u_ght into contact with the
we
ere
alibied.
,Its th,..0 he people.. Ile wa' tally convinced
..t t
I a calm a distress. mimic view were taken of the generel public departments, where cash
must be in the first instance deposited for the wilt.
nary transuctions of
.business, care was always taken vrtritesertl with loin, when the subject was discuss. d•
He had hoped that the expression of the sense of a
part of that House, irliovil beck, as it war,
by public opinion, from one et:3 of thee country to
the other, worild have induced his Mejestj's Mi-
meo to state, in whet taanntr lie expected to have tinders to have recommended to the Tbrorre an act
reduction of the Bank Imiti ?
The Cuaricel.t.ort of the EXI;III.QUER te1,11.-41.
„ that lie expected the amount would turn out to he uhfingwrirt
liaentdtilwilryeziohilyidt ohwiaavredshat
illie4ruhcity.
eluluen had
when a I/acetic) occurred at the Admiralty, to hair
abstained from sinictioning • new appointment, the 1 I
not to leave a deposit for • larger sum than woulu
'Floe /lois. and Learned Gentleman raid, he would as he bail already stated it. public sentiments twilit; been declared in a nisi'. ~ •
operation of tire Window Tax, under the peculiar cover the exigencies of a week or ten drys in advance.
ii ti beirog forward some measure ou the subject, calcii.Mr. TIERNEY repeated, that all he desired to tier so our that they could not possibly he .
bircumstances in which the people of Ireland were
laded to lead either to the gradual reduction, or the .
total abolition of the tax grin
the course or a fen Ph‘med• this necessity of re " odious,, a Me.' balances in the bawls of the Bonk, he meant the 1/(1111 which; was expected to accrue et the end of the indelicacy in their conduct, when they hurried au tri. 1
I years.
Mr. CALCRAFY said he would not cutter into • *ore io the present state ref things would be obso.
lately demonstrated. The Hon. Member con. revenue balances, which were no longer suffered to
rental° in the heed! of private bankers, in the quarter, when this ft II ,_l.. was to come into operation? ) dividual into this situation, pending a discussion in :,
The CH•NCF.I.LOR of the Eicusousu replied, that House, of which mimics had been given—(t/e.w.
eluded by moving that the Petition be brought
discussion of the merits of the qireation; his mired - , ,. . laid hlu units of the ftectivers•Genersl, end these were that lie thought the average amount alluded to heat.)—When he beard a new writ moved for '''
was made up ;it was formed on the int resolution .It was, alter Dein reed, " the table, weekly, and irometimes oftener, paid over to would be about three millions, us far as he could rouse truce of the appointment of an Hoy. VA-
1 CONSOLIDATED FUND PRODUCE RILL the IRachequer Perhaps the total of the smaller iudice.
of the Committee, which stated, that the repeal of .roost (Sir G. Clerk) to the situation of a joinwr
The Citiocstt.ou of the EROIIOII.IEII moved hairnets 'Quit notfound to exceed at the mit-
t be
this dutvirould produce the greatest advantages to j Mr.•.TtiatsEY—" The Right lion, .Gentlernau Lord of the Adunialty, •lie give notice that hr
this kingdom, stud that it ought to he repealed the Order of the Day for the Noun resolving itself side 1,600.0dui .. or 1,700,0001. If. Or the Wan* says lie hetietes, as far 1111 be can ludgr, the quirt- would 'mike the motion which he was now :shoot
to submit—and it would have only *broil a .proper
circumstances would permit : those mum- into a Cotumittee ou the Consolidated Fund Pm- of business, still further sums could he rem- tree arersge will be about three 'toilsome; now, as
stoners did not yet take place, amid though • total duce Dill. dusted available for the public, he was reedy to far es I can judge. I don't belter't a eitigle vivid et deference to the digiiity of the House, pooling the
, repeal could not . be
sort at the present Mvr. TIERNEY said. that as he understood • odutit that suFlisavingy should nut be loot sight of, it."-.-(Heer, hear.) diseuamos2., if Meister* hail refrained limn lillie4
moment, yet every thing short of 'het devirable ' monuo had been agreed to for the production of a till !hit! the Y. uUllbt,to.receuve immediate attention. Mr. Gaanrimr. irked, shut was to he done re. up the office. On a former occasion, the Noble
‘4101.,
1 ohtect ought to be egemd. The Irish clutter, he paper winch would sheer the particular accounts of
.11e had tioitesitation whatever in salting that the spurting the Extboveltr Bola a hial had koaii is.utsi Lord (Castleseagh) succeeded iii '.weaseling Or
•
easel. were in the neat year to coins under to
public balances its the bands of the Batik. and as interest of six laii!lual would he Neill
lahle to the at shinterest of lilt. per aim,. whgle•liiefleati stns Hopse to vote against the 'notion, by etatirlEn O'st
iteration. The salt duties at present were Is.. it. this paper was most material to the consideration of pub,. k, three tailbone osi the dry lifter this Act wined avrcin tile baud, aaf the think ? . - the subject was under tire cons,derotiott of the
I
4 Englartd, (is. iii Scftilear), said sa. tudarrisod, per • tbe questiou, lie hoped the Hight Hon. Gentleman Pais,e.d.. lie tri.ou,ietst this ooisid be found to be the . •
Ihs COLIN csi,Lon of the Ficut Qum-replied, Ftinuste Committee i t
above stuns. and toot i
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