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London, England, 1810-04-17 00:00:00

'COMMITTEE OF PrLY.

The House then resolved itarlf iuto the Commit-
tee of Supply.
Ildr.WHAssuit moves. Theta SUM not exceed.
sag 541►4111. be ratite., to the barrack Detpurt-
M. In."

MT. CALCRA r wishes' to know whether General
De Lawn's at-co int.werr iii a state of settlement ?
He expressed his asiotiishinent that, since the year
1794. the sous of thirteen millions had been granted
for the Barrack D perment, eleven of which had
ally been used. He suppoaed the surplus was tarried
to the Army: it was certainly proper to distinguish be-
tween the occasions to which the public money was
applied, and that • less amount should be voted to
that department (sr the present year, than had been
granted before.
Mr. PARN ILI. desired to know why the advice
of the Contute•sinners of Inquiry, with respect to
paying architects and surveyors, by salary. rather
than by per ceotage, had not been taken ? The
money which the Committee was called upon to
rote was very enorionuo, awl contradicted the as-
sertion that the barrack buildings would be accord-
ing to a ststem of economy.
Mr. %I'm-tam-so said, that the expenditure of
the cotuniissiou for the tact year was 4,0001. for the
present 5,0n01. a very material increase. As to
therepairs of the buildings, the most gross frauds
had bees practised with rr,{ard to them.
Mr. WsatiLa stated, that in the year 1894, the
sum of 47,2001. was expended in repairs; and in
IS tO, more than double that sum was expended.
Mr. WHarerne said, the repairs were undertaken
with the gi tate t alacrity, and the least possible ex-
pense. With r. spect to General Dc Lance)'sdebt.
his pension went to liquidate it. The barracks had
been looked upon as a most extravagant expense ;
the ve,y reve.se was the case; and a fair estimate
might be formed of that, by comparing the ex-
pose of barracks and an encampment.
After a 'en words from the Coancat.t.oa of the
EICHTQUiII, tie It-solution was agreed to.
Mr. Woaavois they moved, 4* That a- sum not
exceeding 15,0001. should be granted to the Com-
missariat Departnient."
After some conversation between Mr. Parnell,
Mr. Wharton, Mr. Rose, Mr. Whithread, Mr.
Foster, and Mr. Peasantry, the resolution was
agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then disposed
of, and the House adjourned et HALF-PAST-Two.
..mrsimmomme-_.

The notice of an action, served by Sir FRESICIS
BURDETT, upon the &PRIMER of the Hut Vie of
Commons, is, we understand defective, as it states,
the Baronet's house where he was arrested, to be in
the Parish of St. James's, in the county of Middle-
sex, wherers, it is in the Perish of St. George's,
in the county of Midd!esex.

A letter from a respectable house io DuWin,
dated 7th 'alt. sr's:—
. .

•' A iev-el has ;arrived here to-day from Wiscas-
set, whence she sailed on the 10th ult. The Cap-
tain reports, that Mr. Mason's Bill had pawed the
Senate. with amendments; but that. in the other
House, a motion for taking the bill so amended.
into consideration. bad been lost by the casting vote
of the SPSAILEL—The opinion in America was,
tbat nothing further
respecting Mr. Marna'/ Bill.
would be done, until the arrival of the Joliet Adam's
frigate."
At an election at the Bank of Ireland. JoatpM
Gram EN. was elected Governor, and J•etss
Halm's, Esq. Deputy Governor for the ensuing
year.